Originally Posted by
Waves
Unless you are a DCI pilot, would someone please splain to me why less DCI RJ's, less DCI Pilots, less DCI ASM's, a lower DCI aircraft cap, a stricter block hour ratio, etc. accompanied with 88 new mainline aircraft is a bad thing, cause I’m just not getting it? What is it that I'm missing?
If the company said we don't want any more than 715 mainline jets but we want more 76 seaters, the TA gives them that. It tosses the mainline growth requirement and allows a 70 airframe increase in 76 seaters. It is now their option to grow the mainline fleet or use 717s as replacement aircraft.
And we said no worries on parking 70 seaters, keep them and we'll move the cap on jumbo RJ DCI fleet from 255 to 325.
In exchange:
- we get 717s that are probably coming anyways unless Gary Kelly has lost his mind,
- we cap DCI at 450/325 in 2016 when DCI would’ve been 478/255 if no CR2/E45 contracts were renewed,
- we get to celebrate capping DCI at 450 and 325, even though we just made it clear caps are negotiable,
- we assist in getting rid of 50 seaters the company doesn’t want and increase the size of the most mainline substitutive and profitable jet DCI has by 27% and therein increase it from 43% of the DCI fleet to 72%,
- and not to be missed, Bill maybe maybe gets to take the ? off his avatar and gets to become a 717A.