Originally Posted by
MunkyButtr
Correction, "50 seaters" must be removed as the 900s are added.
Ok, so are you implying that other 50 seat operators will be reduced instead? Or are you implying that seats can be removed and will not count as 50 seaters? If its the latter, that won't work. A 50 seater is defined as an aircraft certified for 50 or
less seats and a certificated MGTOW of up to 65,000 LBS.
With the agreement in place removing Pinnacle's CRJ200s is the cleanest way to remove 50 seaters from the DCI fleet.
Originally Posted by
LoudFastRules
And your management has never weaseled out of contract provisions? I'm just asking...
No. Not in my experience.
Originally Posted by
AtlCSIP
Real question here. If they reconfigure the 200's to have less than 50 seats, must they be removed? Is it possible that Pinnacle could fly 200's with 49 seats and not violate the provisions of the conditions for acquiring additional 900's?
No. The definition of 50 seater aircraft won't permit that.
Originally Posted by
Pro Fessional
No. It's not possible.
Correct.
Originally Posted by
What
I am not to versed on the Delta SCOPE, but one would think the language would read unto 50 seats or 50 seats or less. APA was burned with this already and that's how the E140 was born, built specifically for AMR as a way around SCOPE.
Originally Posted by
Avroman
Pinnacle had the CRJ-440 , a 44 seat version with closets for the rest of the space. Then after the NWA bankruptcy and scope relaxing in 06 they all were converted to 50 seat CRJ-200s
We learned from that. The definition of a 50 seater is 0-50 seats. If one or more seats were removed to reduce the seat count below 50 then it's still a 50 seater.