Originally Posted by
LeineLodge
Yes but IF they take delivery of the 76 seaters they are allowed the min ratio goes up to either 1.56 (current max under the PWA) or 1.81 (Max under the TA.) It's a noose. It they want to pull tight, the noose tightens. Either deal provides us significantly better protections than what delta pilots had after 9/11 when they watch DCI grow at their expense. I don't want to go there again which is why the block hour ratios make sense.
The only noose involved is the one we're making ourselves if there is a real significant downturn.
If they don't take deliveries of any more 76-seaters, you can park 116 MD-88s and still meet the 1.35 ratio, which is unchanged in TA2015. Again, check DALPAs numbers, we're going to be at 1.6 for June, 1.35 is the min, we're above the min. From a protection standpoint that is not good.
If they took their full allotment allowed by C2012, you could go back to 2012 mainline fleet number which is about -70 domestic jets. Or 50 jets with TA2015. Or -20 domestic jets from where we are today with TA2015 language but in doing so you'd just erased MD88s and replaced them with EMB-190s that pay $30+ less than the 717.
If 2018 builds on 2015, we're hosed.