Originally Posted by
svergin
Those RJs serve mostly smaller cities. Yes, I know, they also fly to bigger ones, but if we parked them all tomorrow we don’t have enough planes or pilots to fly to the cities.
There is a trade off to RJ Express flying. The trade-off is we have 150+ widebody aircraft, partially because that RJ flying feeds smaller cities into the hubs to support it. Its not ALL bad not flying 76 seat and smaller jets in-house.
But we are negotiating a new contract, and your contract is already well below ours and will be even farther behind us and every other major soon.
So vote wisely!
jetBlue and SWA, goes to smaller cities too (depending what your definition of small cities are), and they don't need another airline to do those feed. You missed the point, those flying should be done by mainline pilots, not "Operated by _____ airline" This is why scope is important to me, I don't want a Spirit Airline to be operated by someone else. It doesn't matter if it's "express" flying or codeshare. Last summer, Miami Air operated our flight before the TRO happened. I don't want to see things like that again.