[QUOTE=Grumble;2933384NOPE! Management buys airplanes, not pilots. They’re going to buy what they need regardless, our job is to make sure those airplanes employ US and I’m not willing to make any deal that allows that to be allowed further than it has. No RJs for more of what we already have (and mgmt needs.[/QUOTE]

I’d agree about who buys the airplanes and who needs to fly them. My point was that if the union offered a solution that would slightly alter the mix of regional types, however slash the total number of allowable rj’s, I’d listen to what they had to say. My focus is to reduce the regional fleet as severely as possible, shift that capacity back to mainline, and also to protect our widebody flying by prohibiting the alliance system that Delta has. If ALPA can build a better mousetrap, I’ll look at it. I’m not interested in anything that the company is selling though.