Originally Posted by
Mesabah
What does Delta do with all the 55 seater slots they own on the east coast, do they operate the CRJ 700 with 55 seats? You guys own ~100 per day at LGA alone, that's a massive amount of market share, and most slots, under the FAR 93.123 exception, are used for mainline aircraft.
Well first of all I don't gaf about the small airplanes below mainline. They aren't costing us any jobs at all right now. I sincerely hope the pilot group as a whole has learned that the RJ experiment has been doomed to fail for quite some time and will not waste one copper penny in negotiating it away. It is a dead man walking. DAL has already scaled back far more than either of our competitors. The last I heard, we have over 100 fewer RJs under our umbrella than UAL, and 150 fewer than AAL. I guess there will always be some of that out there, but it's significance is waning with each passing day. But more to the point, when the lift necessitates it - and I assume you are referring to LGA slots - those airplanes will get bigger.