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Old 09-25-2019 | 01:27 PM
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82spukram
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I would like to point this out. The company is adapting to our current scope language. Look no further than the CRJ550. Everyone here needs to realize that the 50 seaters (CRJ200,EMB145) are on life support with limited time left (last EMB145 was delivered in 2006). The current offering of 76 seaters are made to be scope compliant but the next generation are all over weight (except I believe the MRJ just said they would make one at 86K). The company needs this agreement; we do not. Our current scope requires reducing the 50 seaters if they exercise the SNB with additional 76 seaters. I would love to see us work in wide-body protections but not at the cost of more express or more 76 seaters if they get 319/737-7 or whatever work around the company wants. I wish everyone could see this is not about hourly rates on an airplane.....it’s about the next downturn. Also don’t believe the company talking points on cost for additional fleet types. They are not 100’s of million of dollars per year. Maybe at most 100 million over the lifecycle of the airframes.....but what is a 100 million bucks when you are coming up on almost 10BILLION in stock buy backs!!!!!!!!! I beg everyone of my fellow pilots to see that the cost of an additional fleet is small and is covered mostly by the additional revenue by offering the right size plane on the route. Oh and Incase you think I’m crazy UAL already owes a plenty of 175’s and the cost of those fleets leave enough meat on the bone to hire 4 management teams, plus 4 different training centers, plus 4 different scheduling departments and so on .......( I do realize that UAL only owns Mesa and express jets 175’s but still they have 4 different operations).
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