Originally Posted by
TheManager
Exactly. Thanks for pointing this out.
If they need them, they will get them. We don't need to relax more scope to facilitate that.
Plain and simple.
Well said. That was my philosophical argument with C2012, pilots financing the purchase of a fleet type with a scope sale was a bad precedent to set. The 195 is a fine airplane and I'd be happy to fly it, but not at the price of outsourcing a single additional DC-9 replacement.