Originally Posted by
forgot to bid
First, there is a natural protection against pump and dump. What kind of lessor or creditor is going to let you play that kind of a stupid game just to screw over your pilots? If they went down that road we have a lot more to worry about then scope.
Second, when does the company have to park 76 seaters under this TA?
I love academic exercises...let's take the second line of quesitoning first and talk about is, not what might be.
When does the company have to park 76 seaters under our current PWA? How many block hours can DCI fly under our current PWA? How much does DCI have to cut back if mainline shrinks under our current PWA? How's that different under our new TA?
As to your first question, I thought you were the spreadsheet guy. How has Delta's active fleet bounced around so much with few deliveries? Any fully depreciated airplanes moving from desert storage to active and back again?
Next data point...how many 737-900 and MD-90 deliveries are coming in the next 3 years? (hint...there's 60/25 for a total of 85). How take out 17 DC-9 aircraft and what is our fleet count? How many a/c do we have to have on board to convert all 255 to 76 seat jets? You like mathmatical possiblilites (not probablilities) so how does that model work out?
So I'm calling you on trying to take both sides of this argument. You try to develop a spreadsheet with 300 180 seat jets to show what management could do under a new contract, then try to deny what management could do with actual aircraft on order under our current contract. I thought preacher's kids were taught better than that!
Oh, I'm developing a spreadsheet that will show 30 A380's taking out the whole MD-88 fleet..same number of seats and all. NewK will look cool in one of those.