Originally Posted by ReasonableMan

What do you make of:
The 717 deal is a part of the Company’s re-fleeting plan, which includes increasing mainline flying along with a substantial reduction of 50-seat aircraft and an overall cap of DCI aircraft at 450 down from the current 598. The TA provisions allow faster access to 76-seat aircraft than they would have otherwise. The provisions permit the Company
to negotiate with the DCI carriers and aircraft suppliers to replace 50-seat aircraft with 76-seat on approximately a 2-for-1 basis. Absent that ability, the Company will be obligated
to expend significant amounts to perform maintenance required to continue to fly the 50-seat aircraft. Without the reduction in small jet capacity, they have no need to add mainline capacity. All the provisions in Section 1 are front- loaded toward mainline pilot protections. Small narrow-body aircraft (717s) must be in the fleet before 76-seat aircraft are added, and the appropriate number of 50- seat aircraft must then be removed from the DCI fleet in the same year in which 76-seat aircraft are added. Regardless of what the Company does with the mainline fleet, the minimum block-hour ratio will require that, if domestic mainline block hours are reduced below a mini- mum level, DCI block hours will also have to be reduced to remain in compliance with the PWA.

The rest just sounds like you're pouting (I never asked for that...). Well, I'm sorry to inform you again the whole object ofNEGOTIATIONS mean you have to sometimes sacrifice things in order to get other things of greater importance. I do believe the understanding was that everyone who participated in the survey knew what Contract NEGOTIATIONS meant.