Originally Posted by Vikz09

We are very happy to keep the more than 200 50-seaters we so wanted to get rid a month ago. We love the 50-seaters despite the fact our customers don't prefer them and they're 'significantly' costly. We will happily operate them for decades to come.

I loved this argument that ALPA (Tim O) made with regards to this at the msp roadshow. I specifically asked him how much management was going to save without having to replace engines on those 200 RJ's. Tim's answer was 250 million. I followed up with, how did you come to that figure, his response was that they were told by management and alpa's financial experts. A fact that would have been so simple to verify if they would have just asked GE or any operator of CRJ's.

I guess it would have been too difficult to reason that 200 airframes--400 engines would cost 625,000 per engine. Hum, that doesn't sound right, perhaps we should look into that a little further. I promise you that a GE cf34b engine cost at least 3 times that amount. Easily verified but we took managements numbers. Anybody with any common sense could've thrown the BS flag at that. Makes you wonder what else the crack team of ALPA financial research experts took as fact? Certainly, not someone I would want to negotiate on my behalf.