Originally Posted by
shiznit
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)?
Pinnacle has 142 CRJ 50-seaters. DAL provided the DIP financing and is basically pulling the strings there. There is your 50 seater pull down, with or without the TA. The spin in incredible. I hope the pilot group can see thru the smoke and mirrors.
Helping the company through bankruptcy with MASSIVE paycuts, then helping with one of the smoothest mergers in airline history wasn't enough. Lets help them with their 50 seater problem now. And lets do it for pay rate increases that are EMBARRASSING.