Originally Posted by
Justdoinmyjob
404,
you seem to be missing the fact that Delta is currently 25 airframes UNDER the allowed cap for 70/76 seaters already. They could go out tomorrow and add those 25 airframes if they so chose to do so. You are off in the weeds on this one. The total cap doesn't change with the new TA.
I clarified this in the other thread- it allows 25 more 70 or 76 seaters on top of the current caps, thus 50 more new airframes.
The reduction in the 50's continues as they take deliveries of them to maintain what thankfully is the lowest amount of RJs allowed among the big 3.