Originally Posted by
ripn6
In 2002 they replaced our routes and our jobs with 50 seaters. It might not happen initially if this TA is approved, but soon enough, they will relace our routes and jobs with 76 seaters. That's not a hunch or a guess. A hunch or guess would be to think you could tighten scope on 76's seaters at some point in the future. That's not going to happen, unless we trade them for 90 seaters. I could see that happening in 2 1/2 years for maybe 4/8.5/3/3.
How can they replace our routes and jobs with 76 seaters when 85% of the route segments have to be below 900sm, 61% of the domestic block hours have to be flown by mainline pilots, the number of DCI seats is reduced by 15.5%, the number of DCI airframes is hard capped at 450, no unlimited 70 seat turboprop exemption and the number of 76 seat jets, which might be authorized, is reduced from 255 to 223 with no 3:1 ratio to increase the number? I think an honest evaluation of our scope would indicate that the number of mainline pilot jobs will grow and DCI will decrease.