Originally Posted by
Superpilot92
How many E170s does DAL have flying with Republic and how many 70 seaters does skywest fly for DAL? Just trying to add it up. Also even if there are other 70 seaters allowed up to that 255 the number of 50 seaters that are going to be yanked will far outnumber any new 70 seaters. The shift right now is back to larger mainline aircraft, hence why we are keeping 61 DC9s now instead of 58 like what was announced earlier this year. It appears DAL wants some of the Diesel 9s down in ATL post merger. We'll see. I think the wholly owned regionals are going to fair much better in all this then the others which imho is good because we are keeping the money in house.
16 E170's at shuttle, ASA has 37 CRJ700, SKW has 17 CRJ900's, Comair has a mix of 700/900's around 30 I believe. Freedom has 14 900's and the Pinnacle contract was canceled; Then you add the 72 175/900's at XJ and CZ. The new number is the Delta cap at 200 and the NWA lower cap at 55. Wait until the equity pay out happens when the carriers combine, you will see a mass exodus of NWA pilots into retirement when that happens. I donlt think you guys will furlough anyone.
I assume you are a new pilot at NWA, trust me NWALPA tried to pull the Mesaba guys onto the list on several occasions. Management has successfully squashed it everytime. Now with the new SLI rules in mergers it makes it even more painful for mainline to recapture scope. You basically would have to give up massive amounts of pay and seniority to get it back.