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Old 05-21-2012 | 08:43 PM
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Originally Posted by JungleBus
There's a line of BS I've heard from the ALPA folks several times now, most recently in reply to an excellent series of queries from tsquare. They're claiming that this TA and the 76-seat scope relief contained within are the ONLY thing that can make DCI shrink (specifically, the 50 seaters) and that without this TA, there WILL be 300-some-odd 50 seaters still at DCI till the 2020s. Well, let's think about that, shall we?
Not quite correct... There are, however commitments for 311 50-seaters in 2013. This would reduce that amount to 125 in exchange for 70 76-seaters and 88 115ish seaters at mainline.