Originally Posted by flyingkangaroo

37000 hours means we will be flying just about 800 flights a day until summer 2010 . That is about what we have been doing in may... It is a large reduction and seems to hint that they will leave the manning levels alone until they decide what to do with the 50's. If the 50's are placed at some airline then you guys will be back at the start of 2010. That's just my guess...

Another thing struck me as interesting was that they seem to be anticipating larger block hours next summer. After taking 20 50 seat jets out of service one would think they would reduce hours... I wonder if delta just plans to increase aircraft usage or if ASA is building in the idea of placing those aircraft into their calculations.