Originally Posted by
80ktsClamp
That the 450 count is actually reached and complied with, and that the 88 717s come online as growth aircraft without being used as replacements. (i.e. parking 88's or airbuses as they come online, which the MBH ratios allow).
You readily admit in this post that the contract does not prohibit the company from parking mainline airplanes. This is true. And interestingly enough you attribute that to the BLH ratios (which actually have nothing whatsoever to do with that) but you want to see the 450 number reached and complied with. So... what is your point? Do you believe the BLH ratios are valid or not? Do you truly realize what it is that they mean to us going forward? This contract.. NO contract can guarantee that they company will buy aircraft, and no contract can guarantee growth. And up until now, none could
guarantee that outsourced flying would be reduced correspondingly when/if the company decides to do so with mainline. Ours does. It also means that if they increase that DCI flying thru efficiencies of utilization of the limited fleet they have, that mainline must also correspondingly increase. Guaranteed. This is a clear out of the park home run win for the Delta pilots.