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Originally Posted by
Sunvox
Talk about spin. Explain to me how going from 557 planes to 255 planes in the UAX fleet over a 6 year period is a loss even if the seats go from 50 to 76 which is not wholly accurate because the fleet already had 100+ 70 seaters.
Just one correction to your fleet facts. The express fleet is not shrinking to 255 aircraft. Our scope currently restricts the 70/76 seat fleet to a total of 255 aircraft. UAL can have an unlimited number of 50 seaters as long as they stay under the 120% block hour restriction. At the end of 2014 the express fleet will still have 557 airplanes.
That is a net loss of 15 airframes for the year. The 50 seaters may be on the way out but the fleet is not being scoped down to 255 airframes.
You are dead on. We just allowed the Company to increase the ASM's on RJ's . Those constantly trying to defend this sCOPE language fail to realize we permitted the Company to significantly increase the number of passengers flown by RJ's. Three 50 seaters parked is being hearlded by the sCOPE defenders as a win ... while they are replaced by two 76 seaters. A one for one exchange is a loss that we permitted.