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Old 06-24-2012 | 03:37 PM
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Originally Posted by georgetg
Bingo.
I don't really care about block-hours at DCI, I care about pilot positions at Delta. It would have been nice to finally say 12500 is the floor set in the merger, you can't go below that level of staffing without reducing DCI.

Instead we gained ratios that at-best provide protection of the current level of mainline block-hours on Jan 1, 2016 after all 88 717s have been added to the fleet. I would have hoped our block hours would be significantly up at that date with all the new 717s added, that we could put in writing protections at a higher more realistic level.

If DCI is reduced (measured as Waves put it) by at least 25%, we would need a 1.92 ratio just to maintain our current level of block-hours.

Too much horse trading watered down this deal and made ALPAs effort to gain pilot ratification that much more difficult.

Had the deal been for 777s instead of 717s, one memo would have been sufficient, and it would have passed.

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George
George, this is taken from the TA Agreement Summary: “Today, Delta mainline flies 54% of domestic block hours while DCI flies the remaining 46%. With this TA, the share will shift to a minimum of 61% mainline to a DCI share of 39%.” Secondly, adding 88 717’s requires another 1,100 pilots to fly them. No airline on the planet can make guarantees as to how many aircraft and pilots it will need in the distant future. To expect them to do so is unrealistic. Having a two year no furlough clause is about as good as it gets. And yes, 777’s would have probably cinched the deal for many doubters.