Originally Posted by
D Mantooth
I certainly hope so. The C12 scope was a major win. It's not a coincidence we have 1.5 year mainline captains.
Its not because of that. They would have gotten the 717's anyway. It would have been a monumental blunder of epic proportions (even by airline management standards) to attempt to fly that lift with hundreds of more refurbished 50 seaters over the current count that they'd instantly have to park.
Also, the "1.5 year captains" for now are an outlier for the plug positions in the lowest paying planes in the (by far) least desirable base of pretty much any airline. We'll see if it stays that junior, but regardless we'd have those same bid results by now regardless of C2012. There is mathematically no other way it could have turned out.