Originally Posted by
drrhythm2
But is there a provision in those agreements that would allow Delta to swap 50's for larger aircraft at some ratio? Are there any other loopholes they could use? Could they put you in a position where you can't meet minimum performance requirements and thus void the contracts that way?
I sure don't know. Are the CPA's public information?
Of course there is. There are aircraft exchange ratios in the UAL CPA, and there will be on the DAL side if the DAL TA passes. It will be at least a year before we start seeing airframes exchanged (SKYW Inc still hasn't ordered new airplanes yet). Any loss in airframes will be offset with attrition, and we'll probably be hiring during all of it. This doesn't even account for possible AA flying. The company is in an obvious freak-out mode about getting everybody ATP eligible by 2013, so what does that tell you? But hey, these guys don't want to listen to facts, they just want to Chicken Little their way into a sub-standard TA. They act like 200 airframes will disappear tomorrow.