Originally Posted by
Bill Lumberg
So, the 150 50 seaters won't be replaced? Their routes will be immediately dropped? I'd think the 70 seaters would cover most of them, and 76 seaters would cover for current 70 seat routes. What about the 717s? Where will they fly? 21 DC9s will go away, but after that I would think they would cover 76 seat routes, searching for more profits. You seem to forget about where the 717s would be deployed to.
Try to follow me on this:
331 50 seat jets in current operation at DCI
102 70 seat jets
153 76 seat jets
70 76 seat jets proposed to be allowed
125 50 seat jets doing what they have already been doing
206 50 seat jets to be parked 5-8 years EARLY (
What will replace these routes/block hours?)
To replace the parked lift:
All 102 70 Seat jets + 50 of the 76 seat jets (being conservative, reduced freq., etc.)
The previously 70 seat jet routes (flown by the 102 airframes) are now uncovered.
Take 102 of the remaining 76 seat jets to backfill the old routes the 70's filled.
That leaves 1 remaining 76 seat jet to fly 153 jets' worth of flying.
The company is allowed to backfill 70 of those "old 76 seat jet" routes with the TA change.
They now have
71 jets to fly what used to be done by the original 153.
153-71= 82 jets worth of flying that will not be flown at DCI.
What will backfill 82 jets worth of flying that Delta still needs to operate, but cannot operate at DCI?It increases to 82+54=
136 jets of flying if DAL decides to backfill ALL of the old 50 seat routes (which I seriously doubt they would).
So how is this a bottom end scope concession?