Most of that makes sense. While the 170s do weigh more and might not be as efficient as a CRJ900(I'm not possitive on that either) I think Delta's big push right now is customer service and the passengers comfortable experience while using their product. Let's face it, there is nothing comfortable about any of the CRJ products unless you are sitting in first class on a 900. Not to mention that the 170/175s are more efficient than the outdated CRJs.

Who knows if they would put us through a merge and deals with cutting back the CRJ products at the same time, or continue to shrink us all the way down to the 700/900s and then merge us. Here is food for thought. Crazy idea, but I will throw it out there. What if they continued to furlough until all we had left was 700/900s. Even if that was down to 30 aircraft total. There would be roughly 300 pilots on the property and those seniority dates would probably include people that have been here 17 years or more. Do you think a 17-20 year pilot would retire first, or sit ready reserve in CVG at 3 am? The senior folks would go ahead and leave because they would have absolutely no QOL and the company could then just call whatever furloughed guys that are still left swimming in the pool and merge those really junior guys with the new holding compay. Just something to think about.