Originally Posted by
CLRtoPush
United wants bigger, heavier so called regional aircraft not flown by your pilot group. This is a big part of the legacy business model, it’s what your union spends the most money fighting against. United knows they lose money if you were to fly these frames, and your union spends money fighting them from allowing these frames to be flown at a profit. ALPA is helping you vote yourself out of a job, just as the automakers have. To much overhead. The whipsaw must continue if you want to keep the pay checks you have.
DAL seems to be very happy with 110 seaters. i bet UAL could fly the E195 or A220 profitably since DL has about 150 110 seaters in their fleet or on order. and if united gets 90 A220-100s or E190/195E2s then they can get 70 large RJs if they so choose and park the extremly high CASM 50 seaters