Originally Posted by
Trip7
UAL owns the ERJs. If they don't renegotiate, just self terminate the contract, give them back the planes, and tell them good luck finding a regional to staff them!
Heck it got real ugly for a while when RAH was trying to staff just 34 Q400s.
Because this management has such a strong record of standing up to our mainline "partners"? Don't bet on it.
Really, we have more leverage with DAL since we own all the 700s and most of the 200s. They still need them and want them. UAL would simply park everything but the XRs, then find some bottom feeder to fly them.