Originally Posted by
sailingfun
Just curious. The rollout of the 717 was predicated on remapping our regional airlines. That required Delta to renegotiate numerous long term contracts. Do you think the regionals would have agreed to simply slash their fleets absent a agreement to allow them to bring on bigger equipment?
While I still don't think the absolutely amazing deal we got on the 717's was actually contingent on anything in C12 (there was no way they'd have passed that deal up to invest big league long term into 50 seaters they couldn't staff anyway LOL!) Nevertheless, the concept of 717's in at least a vague relation to RJ's was at least in the same ballpark conceptually.
A super premium wide body order contingent on anything RJ is absolutely asinine and I don't think anywhere near 50%+1 will even come close to falling for it, not even with mass quantities of conceptual hope/emotion centric retirement chaff popped all over the place.