Originally Posted by
tsquare
That is a very small deal. I'll bet they have NOTHING to do with the reason for the accelerated contract. I'll even go further and say that if this goes down, that we will not see all 88 717s either. There will be no need because the DCI lift will be the same as it is before the TA. ANd for those of you that don;t like the additional 76 seaters, you had better read our current contract, because when those 717 DO show up and the fleet goes above 767.. and it will... those 70s can be converted to 76s.. management wins either way. SO control the number.. or don't.. it's up to you.
I prefer to control the number, and get a nice pay raise to boot, TO each his own I guess....
Round and round we go....
The bottom line is there are more total large RJ's. That's the threat/problem which cannot be ignored regardless of semantics and shell games.
Large RJ's can do flying currently performed by Delta mainline due to their economics. But you already knew that from the hundreds of times this fact has been pointed out.