Originally Posted by
Pineapple Guy
I disagree. I think this next contract WILL be the contract in which the 100 seat jet comes into existence. With the phase out of the DC9's and DAL's phase out of B737-200s a few years ago, there's a gaping hole in the system with nothing between 76 seats and 125(?) of the A319. That's a huge spread, that needs to be filled, imo.
I think they'll open for the regionals to fly it, and in the end I think we'll fly it, but they'll try to extract a lot of negotiating capital from us to make that happen.
Oh they will ask and try to assign great value to it, but the fact is that we would have to play their game to accept that value. We already own that flying. If we sold it for a bargaining credit, we are the fools.