Because they not only couldn't have physically gotten rid of them much faster than they did, they also wanted about that many around for that time period. That's what our scope "limits" usually are: management's game plan all along.

And I bet they don't return 15%? �� when they're parked for lack of staffing (plus mesabah's point about paper sorcery with their fuel being unhedged etc).

In addition to that, they are pretty much the worst jet engined product in the industry right now, and worse than some props. They're hotter than an 88 in the summer, cramped, constantly blade running weight and balance, and they're running out of pilots to operate them. Its taken a quarter million per 4-5 years per pilot at one airline to even come close to solving the problem, and that is only buying a little time and ends up hurting other airline's ability to staff them, many of which are also DCI.

But the real "RJ" issue right now isn't the 50, its the 70 and especially the 90 seaters (76 installed per management's discretion). They want us to breathe more lift into DCI. Again. And are offering another urgent time value of concessions to allow it, when we should be granting no DCI relief under any circumstances. If anything, we need to be sunsetting the larger ones.