Originally Posted by
Sunvox
Your post says nothing about how you would evaluate success. The advent of 76 seat orders heralds a reduction in fleet size and ASMs. What is it that you are seeing as negative and how do you propose to measure success or failure? If UAL has 1 billion available seat miles and 40% are express and that falls to 1 billion available seat miles with 10% express is that failure?
Sunvox they don't get it. They aren't used to seeing anything larger than a 50 seat jet because when all you have are 737s you really don't need to feed them with anything bigger. So now they are in the "big boy league" and they see a bigger airplane feeding a global widebody airline, and they get all excited.
Of course they don't mention that their old contract allowed unlimited Q400 airplanes which can be configured up to 80 seats. At least we got that one removed....