Originally Posted by
Bill Lumberg
I know, I fly MD88s out of ATL. This 320 FO I knew from the past came up to me and provided that rumor. Yes, I know it would be an MD88 category out of MEM, but he stated that he heard 45 MD90s would be going to MEM. It sounded strange, but I posted it, as a rumor. I NEVER SAID there was going to be an MD90 category in MEM. Just that 45 were supposedly headed that way. We are getting a lot more MD90s in the near future, so that rumor has merrit. Maybe Delta will fly a lot of them from MEM to all points, and that may mean an MD88 pilot base there.
If you look at the numbers, we fall short of about 1300
mainline flights a month in MEM which is about 20% of all of the MEM flights-ouch. Divide that out and it's only about 41 flights a day in MEM belong to mainline. To have 45 MD90s would mean you'd assign 1 jet to each flight and leave 4 reserves and no MD90s in MSP to fly those 4 hour legs to the west coast.
Now, 45 flights a month, maybe. That'll be an increase of about 18 of the current MD90 flights. 45 a week? That will work. It'd be an increase of nearly 40 flights a day over what the 90 does already. It could be taking from the 9 which has 60 flights a week, take from the 200 A320/319 flights a week or some combination of take away or additional flights as things are rearranged as new 90s arrive.
Originally Posted by
NuGuy
Heyas,
In the rumor mill today:
The company informed ALPA that they have no interest in 100 seaters.
Council 20 decided to publish flight pay loss information. No way around it at the MEC level.
That is all...
Nu
Maybe Delta doesn't have any interest in 100 seaters. The only 100 seater out there is the EMB-190 btw. C-Series is bigger than 100 seats and the E195 is larger. However, the C-Series and Ejets equal the "100 seater" in most everyone's mind.
Maybe what the company means, if it was true that it was said and true that they meant it, is that they don't want a E-Jet
at mainline and C-Series but maybe their interested in 117 seaters?
