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Old 05-30-2014 | 04:00 PM
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Originally Posted by Elvis90
As a junior guy I agree with Denny and T on this. Why spend negotiating capital on something that will take care of itself? I've heard anecdotes of numerous regional carriers that can fill only 10% of their new hire classes. They will implode on their own because the business model is no longer sustainable.
Perhaps, and I hope they do. And I don't think we should "give away the farm" and blow all our negotiating capital on this issue to "fix it for them" or whavever. However it does seem like a great time to buy low WRT scope at the DC-9-10 level. If the large (70-90 seater) RJ's were all one type and on our certificate, they'd be our single biggest fleet. That's an awful lot of jobs and if we can take a sizeable bite out of that for little to no "cost" I'm in favor of it.

To any extent there is anything that can be called a cost anyway, I'd suspect it would be more centered around what rates they pay and things like that. Of course if we brought them all on our list and staffed them with new pilot positions on the bottom of our list, some would still claim we passed up some phenom raise or whatever. In any case I see a potential opportunity and we should capitalize if the terms are right.