Originally Posted by
acl65pilot
Renups or an agreed to sli remove that risk. Real question is why would th regional guys want it when DALPA and Rhen Dal pilots are still giving up career enhancing jets to DCI?
If there was a strategic vision with the scope modification we just made or PWA there would be a stick involved. As it stands it's a one time mod with a next time mod of the 50's and 70's on deck.
None of you guys seem to understand the part where 200 plus 50 seaters leave, and then the larger RJs cover for them. Even mainline planes are now starting to recapture or re-enter old 737-200 or DC9 routes, and the 88 717s haven't even arrived yet. Starting in SEP DC9s will go back to Asheville, Wilmington, and CHA. 319s will go to Roanoke. FAY will be upgraded to an MD88. All of those places were banished to all RJ service after 9-11, and they are starting to come back, even before we get a boatload of 717s. The key was to reduce the TOTAL number of outsourced jobs and RJs. The routes will still have to be covered.