Originally Posted by
slowplay
And you're flying in a shiny "new" jet, and DCI has about 30% fewer pilots.

And yet if we didn't agree to C2012, management would have taken a huge bath breathing big money commitments into the largest 50 seat fleet in the galaxy, only to keep them around during the high oil when they couldn't staff them, into the less high oil when they couldn't staff them even more.
That's why, even now, and despite the false rhetoric that the 50 segment is suddenly viable again, they are *rumored* to want even more DC-9-10 sized "RJ's" to continue to up gouge DCI. But but but if we don't agree those 50's will stay around forever...