Originally Posted by
DLpilot
You said they were mandated. I did not say that management would back out. They are not mandated to purchase them though. They may only lease half of them. You never know in the end but there is nothing in the TA requiring them to bring in all 88.
First, with the sale/lease thing, I don't know what the answer is but from a pilot's perspective it doesn't matter much to me. Boeing would never give Delta a short term lease so either way if they come they will be here awhile.
They only get to the 76 seaters through the 717's. I don't think we should mandate they get all 76 seaters. If you accept the premise that they started this whole deal so they could reconfigure their fleet then the 76 seaters are the linchpin. No 717's, no 76 seaters. No 76 seaters no incentives to get others parties to dump 50 seaters. So if you want to assume they will change their mind from the whole purpose of this agreement then yes it's not mandated. As I said before, in that case there is no concession in scope and it makes the deal that much stronger.
When someone commits this much money to get us to accept the 76 seaters, you would assume they would go ahead and get them. Either way, if the TA passes, we get the money.