I think I agree although I think you’re being sarcastic. I totally think system capacity isn’t something management is concerned about; anymore.

I’ve been told that thanks to us voting that contract in we’re about to grow from 720 jets to over 800, sometimes I hear 900. I remember that the 717s alone are 1,000 maybe 1,400 new pilots. That to me shows that when we vote yes, Delta goes from a capacity discipline mantra to an all-out capacity growth binge overnight and… well, wait… they still keep saying capacity discipline during the investor calls… and it’s not like we’re hiring for a growth binge…

/my sarcasm

So that kind of brings up a question. If we were really going to grow as much as was planned beyond the 767 mainline benchmark, why not just say to the pilots, “hey we need to park 50-seaters, the current contract is too limiting in that way, if we promise to grow to 801 jets would you allow us to keep the CR7s/E170s and we promise to put a cap at 450 DCI jets?”

Instead, we allowed more jet growth with no requirement for mainline beyond a BH ratio that is set to 1.56 at its best but that seems to be the ratio of DCI@450 and mainline domestic at its current size.

Why get rid of the mainline fleet size requirement and simultaneously set the ratio to a mere 1.56?

I still don't get the logic behind that.