Originally Posted by
Bluewaffle
It is not a win, but it's not a loss either. The total footprint of UAX gets smaller and we continue to serve smaller cities, or we do as you say and maintain current E175 cap and pull out of more markets simply because we don't have the resources to fly them ourselves.
The former solution you offered trades the short range 50 seat planes serving the small cities for long range 76 planes that may or may not be used to fly to those small cities.
The latter is the clear solution. It's a management problem. You're not management. You're a pilot. Stop trying to help them.
What happens when you give management the 76 seat planes that they want in exchange for 2x 50 seat planes being removed? Management goes and replaces those 50 seat planes with bus service like they already operate in DEN. That's what happens. Then they use the extra 76 seat planes that you gave them to do stuff that should be done by a mainline A220, E190, or A319. That right there is a quantifiable loss for UA pilots.