It won't matter, there won't be pilots to fly them without mainline pay and benefits anyway... I seriously doubt the company even asks. We can probably ask for a gradual reduction in permitted DCI and they'd say yes... It's a throwaway item for them, RA hates the DCI product. The only reason they wanted the extra 76's last time was to dangle a carrot to the RAH, TSH, SKYW, XJT mgts to cut 50's out 5-9 years early to save DAL Inc. money in operating and maintaining that dinosaur fleet. It wasn't designed for labor arbitrage.. The overall shrinkage and hard caps instead of ratios is a clear indication that MGT has no desire to regrow DCI.

The question is whether we make our reps direct the NC to spend "negotiating capital" on something that has little to no future value.

Once DCI has been refleeted by mutual contracts, I think we will then see the contracts get axed by failure to meet operational metrics. At that point flying comes back to mainline where it can be operated to DAL specs. My direction for the NC is to ensure that when 70-76 seat flying comes back to mainline that remaining DCI flying has to be cut before DAL mainline 70-76 block hours in the same fleet size segment.

It's too expensive for DAL to just STFD at DCI, but they will do it in a cost effective way. RA is a control freak, and the lack of control and performance across the board at DCI infuriates him. Rome wasn't built in a day.