Originally Posted by
groundstop
I'm voting NO. My question is this: why is early retirement of the 50 seaters tied in to a TA? It's because management wants you to think it makes a difference. It doesn't. Those things are going away regardless. I guess their spin is that need relief on the 76 seater cap to replace those 50 seaters with more, bigger, RJ's. So they are spinning it as a net reduction in RJ's, but more mainline-replacement type aircraft are coming.
Why our pilot group is buying this is beyond me. I don't even know why ALPA is selling it.
Because DAL has no way to reduce the contracts with the 50 seat jet providers without offering a deal to allow those companies an alternate way of staying in business.
If you owned/ran a DCI would you allow DAL to shrink/eliminate your company even though they had a contract but felt like abrogating it 5-8 years early?
All this does is placate the DCI operators in order to get them to become
smaller but remain slightly profitable so they will agree to modify the terms of their agreements.
By the time the end of 2015 hits there will still be 553 jets under contract for DAL. This agreement will make the DCI fleet number 103 LESS at the 2015 point versus if we do NOTHING. I'll take 450 instead of 553(with the ability to increase that number) any day of the week.
(BTW, DCI won't shrink to 450 by parking the 50 seat jets until sometime in late 2018/early 2019.)
This TA restricts DCI flying, what says DALPA won't seek to restrict that flying AGAIN (in less than 3 years with this TA)?