Originally Posted by
johnso29
How so? Where is the guarantee that the outsourced CA jobs would've been reduced had we not ratified the contract? It's pure conjecture on your part. Before Delta bought Pinnacle, they extended the 50 seat contract by 4 years through 2020. It's clear Delta intended to continue use of the 50 seaters. So by not reducing the allowable amount of total outsourced RJs, how would we have reduced outsourced CA jobs?
Then Pinnacle got all Comair'd. There are ways around those contracts...always.
The point is that the 50 seater was self mitigating and we allowed a pile of additional highly viable heavy RJs to replace them.
There is no guarantee otherwise as this is speculation since the contract passed. I would have happily taken a few more months of negotiations to at least get it somewhat more right. What was the big rush? DL supposedly wanted to "make moves." We assumed they would benefit us and open up opportunity for further negotiations and increases. Well, they bought 49% of a foreign airline with a bunch of widebodies to JV with. So much for that.