Originally Posted by
climb150
Saab's, dash etc were gotten rid of because they could be replaced by 50 seat jets without having to get scope concessions. Now, if they wanna get rid of 50 seaters, the only thing to replace them with have 70 plus seats.
Until United or AA pilots etc give concessions on scope, 50 seat jets will be around and I'm guessing that will be until at least 2030.
Pax hate anything that isn't business class on a 787. Put wifi entertainment in the 50 seaters and I bet complaints would drop dramatically.
United’s scope policy is basically a cut and paste of the Delta contract. Their management brought on the 717, and now the 220, and got more 76 seaters, which has allowed them to announce the retirement of their 50 seat fleet. United has chosen not to exercise that option hoping that the pilots will provide relief without the expense of another fleet type and also the more stringent scope restrictions exercising that option would trigger. Being that the scope language actually got tightened in a concessionary LOA during the biggest aviation crisis in history, I’m not too worried about scope being relaxed. United and American may keep them around longer than they want to, but they will be forever trying to catch Delta as a result.