Originally Posted by
gloopy
Wow. Really? So we give up 70 additional 90 seaters, which will promptly be ensconced in long term iron clad DCI contracts and leases to the lowest bidder, and we just get all that back how exactly?
We lose even more leverage by outsourcing large RJ's and then we just hope to get all that lost leverage back with what, the leverage we lost giving it up in the first place?
The same logic pushing for this TA will be the same logic pushing for even more 90 seaters in 2015 in exchange for something else. Best case maybe fewer aging 70 seaters (you know, the grandfathered 102) in another exchange. But if we ratify this TA, C2015 won't see a decrease in 90 seaters and will more likely see them increase yet again.
More suppositions. You can only count eggs that are in your basket! Can you really say that reducing the total seats at DCI and capturing some of that flying at the mainline is a bad thing? What, you really thing you can capture all of the DCI flying now? If we can do it at all, it will be done in incriments. Let's build on what we can capture now.