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Old 02-17-2013 | 08:29 AM
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johnso29
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Originally Posted by forgot to bid
We can be shrunk below what we are now anyways, the ratio doesn't stop that, it just means they get jets proportionally parked. The ratio doesn't guarantee a minimum mainline number, nothing did.

But I don't think giving up the minimum fleet language from the old PWA was a concession on the part of the company. They can grow the 76 seat fleet now without growing us or growing us a fraction of what the old pwa required.

Hence, that ratio needs to come up.
True, but the BHR prevents mainline from shrinking while regionals grow. Isn't that what happned after 9/11? It prevents huge utilization of the jumbo RJs while parking mainline aircraft. Our old contract didn't provide that.