Originally Posted by
Bucking Bar
If we are continuing capacity reductions, THEN I think we might be better off forcing management to put the CRJ900 equivalent at mainline.
And how do we do that?
Originally Posted by
Bucking Bar
On the flip side, there is nothing (and probably less) keeping Delta from reducing mainline capacity under our current contract.
And absent this TA there is nothing keeping them from replacing that mainline capacity with unlimited 70-seat, 70,000 pound turboprops. We are very exposed as it stands. Look at the capabilities of the Q-400 and tell yourself that DAL management would never do that (think LGA.)
OTOH, under the TA, if they took the 717s and the 76-seaters then started shrinking the mainline fleet, the block hour ratio protection would require them to further shrink the DCI fleet (below the 450 airframe hard cap) concurrently. We have no such protection now.