Originally Posted by
80ktsClamp
Not exactly a good analogy. Those are outsourced carriers and are under contract to operate those routes... they don't sell the tickets for them. On top of that, it shows how incredibly poor the management structures are that we support through outsourcing.
So let's allow 70 more large RJs to help those management teams last longer in the future!
OK, skip the analogy. He asserts that he knows for a fact we can operate those aircraft profitably at mainline.
Prove it in some form. Start with the known difference in longevity and compare pilot pay tables. That's public info.
The MEC was provided a brief that went through actual ASA expenses, actual DCI versus mainline pilot expenses, cost reductions from elimination of margins and duplication, AND it included additional revenue from increasing the large RJ seating capacity to 80/82 seats since they would no longer be scope restricted if flown on mainline. The numbers didn't come close to what he asserts.
So it appears to me his theory is not actually fact.