Phantom,

Your post was too forward looking for there to be any data to support a conclusion one way, or the other. I still maintain that the 717 is an interim solution if the C Series isn't priced out of the market.

The C Series is a leap nearly as significant as the 787 is. Eventually every airline will have some version of a 787. Boeing priced the 787 aggressively and now has the problem of needing to sell about 1,300 of them before they see the first dime of profit. Bombardier does not have a 737/767-Tanker & military sale cash cow to milk while it awaits a return on it's investment. Pratt, for their part, is such a believer in their GTF that they're spinning up to produce these in huge numbers. They think they'll eventually get the NB sales lead from GE.

Unfortunately, outsourcing is an economic issue. We don't know what management will pay, or what price our MEC might accept, to outsource members' jobs.

I keep hoping we might return to the days when alter ego was properly perceived as the very existential threat that it is to labor. We will not have a decisive victory until we make a moral stand ... that no Delta pilot's job gets sold. Until then, I don't think anyone can make an accurate guess where this goes.