Originally Posted by
Falcon7
The wave of RJs peaked before Moak became President and has been declining. Delta December 2012 year over year domestic ASMs, mainline up .4%, regionals down 9.5%. I predict this will be a continuing trend.
Small RJs might be on the decline but jumbo RJs are on the increase.
Or put another way, the uneconomical RJs that the company no longer wants are being parked and replaced by new larger more economical RJs that the company wants.
One other way to put it, we agreed to reduce the RJ fleet by 25%, but only decrease the total seating capacity by 15% which may even be made up by the fact the jumbo RJs are being flight planned to fly faster than the small RJs could fly, possibly providing more ASMs in a given year to reduce the loss in capacity.
And I don't have a reason that I can believe in that will keep that trend from continuing in the next contract.