Originally Posted by
Zenofzin
We are trying to fill planes and connect to mainline with the high yield passengers, it’s our union blocking the company from selling more seats. Our scope love it or not ultimately affects our profitability. I’m not advocating selling out, but I do know out of a lot of cities we have lost global service and higher paying customers do to our inferior 50 seat product. That’s life. I personally would be fine with replacing more 50 seaters with 70 seats at the regional level. I think we are cutting our own necks. The same guys that beeyatch about DAL profit sharing don’t seem open minded to any changes that might increase our profitability. Yes single engine taxi helps and when even employees like myself BUY tickets for their families rather then use the UAL discount because you have to travel on a crap 50 seat RJ THERE IS AN ISSUE. I hope our union knows what it’s doing
UAL can add as many 70/76 seaters as they want. They just have to be flown by UAL pilots and not outsourced to some fly-by-night outfit like GoatJets. And this CRJ-550 is still gonna be an inferior product. One overworked and underpaid FA, 10 "premium" seats and 40 economy seats, self-serve vending machine (or whatever its gonna be) and stacking your rollaboards in a closet like a giant game of Jenga. Yeah, what possibly could go wrong?!?
