Originally Posted by
gloopy
The B School crowd believes that maintenence is regulatory and the rest is insured. That's how they are taught. They have to regurgitate that (among many other unsustainable company trashing beliefs) to not only get good grades but to get into the schools in the first place. Ditto for the throngs of incompetent Keynesian "economists", some of them peace prize winners, that don't know the basics of supply and demand or even how money works. And our march towards being over schooled and under educated continues.
And once again, a gutter trash company is hired yet excellent results are expected.
Someone probably got a bonus for their brave, innovative cost control measures even though all they did was sign the lowest bidder which a minimum wage intern could have done.
Brilliant.
Plus you gotta love that before the ink even dried in the TA the company inked deals with 37 seat and under props which don't count towards the limits and weren't in any of the DCI numbers being advertised. "They don't even want those, they just got rid of the Saabs, amirite?"
Did the contract change anything on the under 50 seat aircraft? I suspect this has a lot more to do with the slot swap where we picked up a lot of cities that USAIR served with small turbo props. We promised to keep serving those cities. They now have a baseline on which markets are losers with larger aircraft. Keep in mind that most of the passengers these small aircraft bring into LGA will connect to mainline aircraft. We are also upgauging markets that are doing well. CLT just picked up a mainline A319 replacing one of the RJ's. We have never had mainline service LGA to CLT.