Originally Posted by
SONORA PASS
HuggyU2,
There is a smarter answer than requiring 6 seats to be pulled off of 76 seat aircraft: Put United Pilots back in the front 2 seats.
United Airlines would rather pull those seats and furlough pilots than let them fly any United's 76 seat aircraft. Insourcing is the smarter answer, pulling the seats and furloughing pilots is the refusal to accept that answer.
SP
I’d love to see that, but if it made financial sense for us to fly 76 seaters rather than farming it out, we’d have hundreds of them running around right now. With all of the associated cost of operating them on the United certificate, farming them out within the limitations of our contract is still cheaper.