Originally Posted by
slowplay
That chart is a nice work of fiction. It assumes a huge block hour reduction to keep capacity flat, meaning that Delta would have to pull out of a substantial number of markets.
It's a spreadsheet designed to force a result. Also, he didn't use a proper "control group", our current PWA. Take a look at his numbers presuming that decrease under our current agreement. Where's the "worst case" there...and with his no vote that's what he's advocating.
Actually, DAL would love to pull out of a number of those unprofitable markets currently served by those 50 seaters that they want to get rid of. So there is no reason that DAL can't continue to show capacity discipline with DCI and the improvement in work rules allows DAL to keep main line hours static (or even slight growth) and staff the new A/C with Displacements from higher paying A/C (every A/C at DAL is higher paying than the 717).