Originally Posted by
Meme In Command
Playing a little devils advocate,
Your points are valid, but I think there's a little more to the 787 order itself than just SJS. Everyone I hear excited about the potential order mostly talks about how we'd be replacing a narrowbody paying category (ER) with an all wide body paying aircraft, which would put more money in pilots pockets.
A lot different from, for example, replacing all 717's with 220's. I've heard about this from a flight ops dude doing a JS observation once. I don't think anyone remotely cares about this because its not a noticeable $gain$ for us.
Sure. Replacing old jets with new higher paying ones is good for us.
Why that fact (which is also outside our control), would affect anyone’s decision making on contracts is something I do not understand.
And, again, the company will buy what it wants to buy regardless of what we do. So I don’t really understand the devil’s advocate’s position.