I'll say it one more time. Any contract that allows purchase of more brand new 76 seat jets is a concession. American, United, Delta, anyone.
Who cares if they park old 50 seaters, who cares about ratios. If we are allowing more large RJs to be purchased, then they should be flown at mainline.
Any new jets bought now will be flown at outsourced rates for decades. Why would we let more cats out of the bag?
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
Let's not have short term memory loss on regarding the stagnation and furloughs that these outsourced large RJs have cost EVERYONE.