Guys,

Commuted home yesterday. While this in itself is not noteworthy, especially for those of you who get to live in base, what is interesting is the aircraft I was on.

I commuted on an E70 (travelnet code). It was a comfortable ride (seated in an aisle seat in coach with a passenger next to me). We both had elbow room and except for having to check my big crew bag, there was plenty of room in the overhead - lots of pax had big bags up there!

The real problem was I flew LGA-DFW. That's a mainline route (or should be). So, we put a comfortable airplane on a mainline route with lower crew costs how is this not a win for the company. It looks like a Delta plane and doesn't have any of the negatives as the CRJ-700 (cramped) so the passengers don't notice. It had young, energetic crew and good service.

This reaffirmed my view on section one of the TA. I just can't see having these planes flown by subcontractors. We have rates for them and I think DAL actually owns a lot of them. By giving away more large RJs, we really are selling our jobs.