Originally Posted by
gloopy
That's why I said you can tell they management is lying by the lack of a sunset/expiration in the large RJ's. They want a permanent fleet of outsourced large RJ's with mainline CASM and turnkey profitability. 70 and especially 90 seaters are long term career killers that will never, ever go away. 50 seaters are very costly place fillers and are self expiring. No wonder they want to make a trade.
And while everyone is talking about fewer seats at DCI that is the thing that actually kills this deal. By trading profitable 76 seaters for 2.7 UNPROFITABLE 50 seaters then DAL will be able to meet the new block ratios without growing mainline (and in actuality shrinking mainline). Once again, we're negotiating ourselves right out of a job.