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Old 06-18-2012 | 08:10 AM
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Originally Posted by alfaromeo
The agreement removes a massive amount of DCI capacity that allows these aircraft to be added. The 88 717's are mandated by the TA. Got it yet?
It doesn't do that at all.

It removes aircraft from DCI
It provides a block-hour ratio

Neither of those two are measures of capacity.

Our AFKLM/AZ JV measures capacity expressed in EASK and has no block-hour provisions, yet we "win" on the block-hour side becasue we fly smaller jets.

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George