Originally Posted by
sailingfun
You could be right also. The bad news is that management considers the MD88 a accumulator fleet. They can be parked quickly at little cost in a downturn. Airlines with newer fleets have to keep those aircraft flying to generate revenue for payments. A downturn could see Delta with a quicker capacity drop then others. That's never a good thing for pilots.
Well we have that covered. If they have to park 88s then the bh ratio with DC kicks in to protect us and required the flying to be taken from them first....
Oh wait nevermind. I remember now we set the ratio way too low. We can park jets and still be compliant.
If we knew that the ratio would end up around 1.7 or better, why didn't we set it there as the floor?