Originally Posted by
flyingdaddy810
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.
No I don't think we can recapture it all now. But we should at least start by reducing the allowable 76 seaters, not increasing them for less 50's that are going away anyway. For those who say the 50's will be around for over 10 years, that's going to be the case with or without this TA because there will still be well over 100-150 50 seaters for a long time no matter what. But many of today's current fleet will be retired anyway. Giving up 70 more 90 seaters just to hasten the inevitable retirement of cost inefficient jets the company has too many of in exchange for 70 additional 90 seaters that are VERY cost effective and that can compete with, and directly replace, just about any mainline narrowbody lift on almost any route is a really, really poor ROI.
And why are we giving up 5 large DPJ jets that we JUST won a grievance on? Just giving them up!! Those are our jets and our flying. We OWN it and we are just giving it up...to a non union pilot group...to a subcompany that requires seniority resignation to work for if on furlough (and here we thought that was a big deal! LOL!)