My guess would be that mama DAL is saving her pennies for the ALK bidding war...but be that as it may...

It has been an under-the-table goal of RAs marketing team that EVERYTHING smaller than a 757 is to be outsourced to the lowest bidder. Even the domestic 757 would be pared back to a dozen or so core markets. In essence, it would look like the 1982 version of Northwest Orient, where the smallest thing was a 727, and then only a handful, feeding the whales (and we remember how well that worked for PanAM).

EVERYTHING else would be outsourced. EVERYTHING...that includes DC-9s, MD-80s, A319/320s and most 757 flying. I've had people try to convince me that this is a good thing, which is suspiciously along the lines of the current MECs direction.

The RAH+Frontier+Midwest combination may just be the first shot in this salvo (um, hello? 717ss and A320s!). Having ALPA lawyers at the 44 meeting say they can't do anything about this and that a MEH codeshare is already in place is chilling.

Even if we got rid DALPA now, the damage may already be done.

Nu