Originally Posted by
sailingfun
I was told the same thing by several reps. The new agreement preserves what we have and could end up better as we up gauge the Atlantic flying and AF/KLM down guage as per their current fleet plans. I want to see the numbers to verify it but the reps seem to have no issue with this. They have issues in other areas but not this one.
Do you really think AF is going to park A380's? I don't. The Euro Laws make it very hard to change block hours (jobs) so I really can't see them down gauging either. The weak Euro makes those routes less profitable for us, so I really don't see us up gauging, quite the opposite in fact. I don't want this part of the agreement to be one of those "we didn't expect them to do that...." when we are flying one A321, to their A380. But at least Delta keeps half the profit, right?
In fact, our BH is LIMITED to 50% +/- 1%. So even if we wanted to fly more frequencies, we can't. I want those jobs at Delta!