Originally Posted by
NuGuy
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.
....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.
Taking a line from "Land of the Lost," do you ever get tired of being wrong?
The latest fleet plan has large airplanes (74 and 76) being reduced, and on the south side the 737 and MD88 increased (remember they've got a goal of 40-50 MD-90's added). The same is true in the North for fleet mix. They're also rapidly parking 50 seat and smaller DCI RJ's and turboprops (how many DCI carriers are furloughing pilots?) And where'd you get the piece about ALPA lawyers at a meeting? There hasn't been a single report of that, only that the negotiators said that RAH's move on Frontier as it's currently structured wouldn't violate our scope.