The argument that it is bad for mainline is weak. First, if we take CPS in to the fold and add them to the list, the amount of jets will be reduced by 36. They would have to agree to it. Two, if you look at the numbers they only have 32 more airframes they can buy before they hit the 255 jet max. Even though they would prefer to have 255 76 seat jets, the economics to not make sense to trade in a 70 for a 76 seat jet. The economics are just not there to do that. Because of this, you will only see 32 more jets ordered under the DCI brand that have more than 69 seat in them. Maybe at sometime there will economic to support trading in a jet that has only 70 seats to buy a 40 million dollar jet with six more seats, but it is not currently there.

Of course if all we were going to do was take a one decisional view to this it would be worse for the DAL pilots. Are we that stupid? I hope not. We know we would need adjust to section 1. That has been known from day 1.