Originally Posted by flyBanana

I’m still thinking about Section 1. The new TA certainly got a new concept. The question is should we limit the number of jobs outsourced by allowing more large airplanes? What if they said they’ll park all 255 70-76 seater but they want 50 737s outsourced?. Would that be a good thing, since that reduces the number of outsourced jobs? What if they wanted 5 A380s outsourced for all the DCI? Would that be a good deal? On the other hand, what if they say they’ll park all 76 seater, but instead they get 500 new 30 seaters, thus allowing 5000 more low-paying jobs? (I know this wouldn’t happen, for it will not be cost effective, but for the sake of argument.)

I know the argument that 50 seaters will be gone eventually. I know that those 76 seaters will be here for a long time. Perhaps in 2015, they’ll say they’ll park 100 70 seaters but need 50 more 76 seaters. Will that be a good thing? We all want all the flying jobs back at the mainline, but is this a tiny step forward or backward? I’m really not sure, I’m just asking what you guys think…