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Old 05-29-2012 | 09:29 PM
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Bill Lumberg
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Originally Posted by 80ktsClamp
Hundreds of 50 seaters will be parked anyways over the next 10 years. This TA only accelerates that by about 5 years, while allowing larger and more capable RJs to come online that will be around for another 20 years. How's that taste?
So you want to keep the obviously more unprofitable planes longer? Do you think all new 76 seaters will just cover routes that we fly now, or will they and the 70 seaters cover routes those 148 50 seaters were flying unprofitably? We wouldn't get any more 76 seaters until we got 717s, and those 717s will probably be used to cover current 76 seater routes that could be more profitable with more seats on the route. More profits will allow us to buy even bigger planes, and tightened scope in this TA will allow us to fly them far away from ATL. That's what we want, right? To facilitate that dream, you have to get rid of unprofitable planes quickly. 148 50 seaters going away and unfortunately adding 76 seaters to cover for some of them in high oil will allow mainline to grow too. We have had terrible stagnation over the last 10 years, mainly due to age 65, but the 717s will help with that, and getting rid of as many 50 seaters as possible sooner will add to profits and add growth for us, with a ratio to keep DCI in check. I was Mr. DPA a month ago, but you really have to try to grasp the whole picture out there. It's tough, but huge changes and huge raises are just not achievable when AA is in BK and UAL/CAL can't figure out what to do either.