Originally Posted by baseball

As I see it, isn't it already in our contract for the company to order these aircraft? I mean, if UAL wanted to order these AC why don't they just go out and do it. We have a pay scale for that already.

The RJ idea hasn't been a good one in our industry. It's economics are poor. It remains to be seen if the 100 seat RJ is a good idea or not. I think with cheap gas it's probably great. Once fuel goes up, do the economics make sense??

I think carots like this one are short-lived. Management wants a 2 year extension in exchange for a lifetime investment on our behalf. Think about this. Once those jets are on property they aren't going anywhere if our investment in them is sizable. Why a 2 year extension? Why not 1? Why not 3? What's so special about the number 2?

I don't trust ALPA on this. The RJ community now wears the pants in ALPA and this entire RJ experiment has resulted in a 20 year setback for the industry. I don't ever want to be on an RJ again for the rest of my career, and that includes DH.