Originally Posted by
Denny Crane
Okay, say you are correct and the company doesn't pass up the 88 717's. We are still in negotiations for a new contract now and probably for the next year or two. Company takes delivery of 88 aircraft the maxes out the 76 seaters allowed under the old contract (I can't remember how many but well more than is allowed now.) Then dumps the 757's.... and trades in the 50 seaters for the new 76'ers at DCI (kinda like they've done). We are now in 2015 with a possible new contract and way more 76 seaters than allowed now. Plus no cap on total RJ's and no ratio.
The flaw in that logic might be that the allowable 76-seater count was
lower than what is allowed now. They needed us to enable this up-gauge strategy.
I don't mean to sound like I am lecturing you: I bought into this TA.