[quote=Mesabah;537392]Given the state of things, I doubt any airline could secure new financing for any new aircraft. Also, there will be no more 71-76 seat jets under DAL scope until mainline starts buying narrowbody aircraft for mainline. Typically anyone in lower management isn't told anything, because if they are they immediately blab it to the pilot group.[/quote]

The old DTW chief pilots (especially SK) were pretty much worthless for inside info because of just this. They seemed to find out about 30 minutes prior to everyone else and they were told to then pass the news to us. Anything beyond that was just thier speculation from experience just like the rest of us.