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Pay rates and 739s and E190s if you agree to say yes. Why 739s and E190s? Because they upgauge, are more efficient and improve customer experience, i.e. they make more money and attract most customers.
So what if we say no? No 739s and E190s? They'd give up all of that because we didn't allow 25 more CR9s?
Exactly.
Dumbest bluff in history.
If the E190 is replacement then why would we EVER facilitate this with a scope concession?
If the E190 is growth, then we sit on our hands and they have to get the anyway because they can't staff their own marketing plan with the 2% extra DCI seats on inefficient 50 seaters that they can't staff anyway.
The 737's have already been announced as replacements so who cares.
They are going to get the planes they need regardless of this ridiculous scope deal. Meanwhile if we reject the TA, they have to scramble to cover the network with a collapsing DCI system with inefficient 50 seaters that they can't staff anyway.