Originally Posted by
Sink r8
You're sure kicking my butt on semantics, and I've never doubted your aircraft recognition awesomeness, but that doesn't really change my point.
Whatever these things are, they're not here, and guys would most definitely fly them for $200/hr.
They would fly them for $200/hr. Absolutely.
But this is my point, be careful on championing that $200 rate... actually $188... as a win. It could bite us.
Because if they yank the LAX 717s and replace them with LAX 190, the rate on TA2015/01JAN16 goes from $224.68 to 188.64. If you bring the 190s around the system and then replace the MD88s in part with the 190 you go from 226 to 188 for the same flight.
Now some heads will pop around here at the notion of the 190 replacing the 88 because any 88 replacement is going to have to be equal in size they would say. But I looked on my icrew max and counted the turns I do out of ATL and saw out of 62 of them, 22 were new 717 flying, the rest were 88 destinations. Many of those 88 destinations were full just about every time. The 717 comes in about 26% smaller, what's to stop them from using something 34% smaller?
As long as they can supplement the system with the 717, 90, 319, 320, 321, 737, 738 and 739? And again, some complain about the rates but I'm not one of them. The rates I could bite off on. The other concessions were aimed at doing more with less, and that financially hurts and those pay rates were insufficient for the big 3 concessions.