Originally Posted by
Schwanker
It's comical that the Kool-Aide crowd likes to claim C2012 was responsible for the B717s. Fact: C2012 had ZERO relevance on the acquisition of the B717. This management team wasn't going to pass up the steal of a lifetime in this airframe. C2012 had nothing to do with it. Ed said they were eyeing the 717 the day SWA showed interest in Airtran.
What C2012 did was:
- breath life in an ailing regional model. The CRJ200s are dying. The 76 seaters provided an economic replacement keeping the regional industry a viable model.
- change our summer months from 31 days to 30 days allowing the company to reduce headcount (3% is a reasonable estimate) by requiring approximately 3% less pilots in the summer months. Hiring would have been FAR greater absent this concession.
Explain why American expanded RJ flying and reduced mainline airing the same time period? Getting rid of the E190.
Meanwhile at Delta...24% of pilot group 2014+ DOH, 15 Month Captain upgrade.
Block Hours=Pilot Jobs
C2012 unquestionably shifted a significant amount of BHs from Regional to Mainline despite increased 76 seaters. It's simple arithmetic. I expect C2016 to do the same. Now if we can get the 330s and 765 to banded to 777 pay...
#ScopeChoke