Originally Posted by dragon

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.