Originally Posted by
Zoomie
As for the Q400s, true CAL scope allowed an unlimited # of these airplanes, but people didn't book on them and they are slow and have high maintenance issues. If the company wanted more Q400s, they would have bought more of them and used them well before any merger occurred.
UAL will wait until next contract and ask for more 76 seaters in exchange for another pay raise.
People didn't book them? I seem to remember flying them full many many times.... Passengers may not have always liked them, I'll agree with you on that, but they were booked.