Originally Posted by
slowplay
Your argument is a red herring. For historical reference, what was the size of the BAE146 and its sisters?
Those aircraft used to be at ASA and Mesaba. At ASA, they went away completely due to tightened scope (achieved during Section 6 negotiations). At Mesaba, they didn't violate seat limits.
Slowplay, I like the way you think, unfortunately your history is completely wrong. The BAE146, with 105 seats operated under EV code on EV routes supported by EV's own tickets and marketing. When Delta code was put on EV flights it was similar to the codeshare with AirFrance. When the relationship extended to Delta Connection then the 146 sized jets wee grandfathered in. They went away due to operational problems, poor reliability and ASA's job action that wasn't quite a strike. The airplane went away before Delta negotiated its C2K scope that subsequently restricted its replacement.
I am not as familiar with the Mesaba Avro story, but I thought they were always limited to 66, or 76, seats.
I don't think Delta can take it back from ASA and Comair due to ALPA's conflicted representational obligations.