To reiterate, there will come a time when it is cheaper to have small airliners operated by Delta and not DCI. The problem is the catalyst.

Will it be bad service, bad performance, bad pr, bad management (look at Bar's post concerning his conversations with his CPO), bad training, bad hiring, or:




Now, I'm a regional guy. I worked at a regional with a top notch flight ops and training department and a lousy lousy HR department that it inherited from its mainline carrier. I trusted my airline and the pilots I flew with. But can you trust them all?

Sure we detest whipsaws here in the airline pilot world because it begets all sorts of quality issues. But then again lack of a whipsaw means higher costs. You need whipsaws to lower costs so if you end up having to end the whipsaws then why outsource anyways? Anotherwords, we (DAL) can't keep doing this because one day its either going to bite us in the butt or cost us money.

Either way it won't be worth it in the future but as ACL indicated there are of course issues to recapturing or keeping flying (100 seaters) like debt, and debt, and debt, and debt. Long live the DC-9.