Originally Posted by
Bucking Bar
My money is on a long term status quo with both sides seriously revisiting the question in about 2015, which is probably not a bad time to be negotiating.
In other words ... exactly what ALPA's kinda been saying to expect.
The 717 just isn't that good an airplane when put in a battle against airplanes which are three generations newer. It works if we really are expanding capacity into RJ markets and the CRJ900's are really expanding into CRJ200 markets. HOWEVER, if we are shrinking and displacing to the 717 from the 757 while the CRJ900's take old MD88 flying, then that's an entirely different story
I tend to think you're right about the status quo and AMR. I think they'll try to match the industry scope and then we will get the 717's either way. If we need to grow they are good and if we need to renew the fleet...well...then they blend with the current mantra in that regard.