Originally Posted by
Bigflya
You are correct on many things. DAL is maxed out on 76 seaters and we will be emphasizing scope from here out. The membership was upset when we gave scope relief to fly some 70 seaters as 76 seaters. If DAL furloughs, then those seats have to be removed. Sorry to see anyones seat go away but better the feed than mainline ultimately. We at mainline believe that one or more DCI's will benefit from the USAir gate swap. All those cities in the NE can not handle mainline A/C loads. Comair is our high cost DCI as they have so many folks on the upper pay scales and their on-time performance has not been stellar to sway the least. Now they have been set-up for failure being hubbed at JFK. Come SOC in January things will get interesting for all of us.
I am very glad to see that mainline pilots will be fighting to take flying back. Good news for all of us.
As far as our (Comair's) performance numbers, all I can say about that is that the bulk of our delays and cancellations are as a result of the slot swap program. Why delay an MD-80 or 757 when you can delay a 50 seat RJ? Maybe we are being set up for failure.