I'm tired of hearing ALPA tell me that the number of DCI air frames are decreasing. Every single recent announcement has been negative recently. We are parking the DC-9's, MD-90's are not arriving as fast as anticipated, no hiring in 2011, Republic getting 8 E170's painted in Delta colors , Skywest getting 4 more CRJ 700's in Delta colors, Compass getting 12 170's in Delta colors, and the LGA/DCA swap is probably dead. Make no mistake about it (Lee Moak's favorite phrase). THE REST OF THE DC-9 FLEET IS BEING REPLACED BY THREE DIFFERENT DELTA CONNECTION CARRIERS THUS RESULTING IN LOST MAINLINE DELTA JOBS. There is nothing we can do about it, but we can at least acknowledge the fact that our scope is the worst in the industry and it is still under attack. Our seniority list is going to shrink. We probably will not furlough as we will have a lot of pilots retiring in the next few years, but there will be no movement for those of us at the bottom. It's not a coincidence that Delta announced 24 new 70 seat airframes around the same time as announcing the remaining 30 DC-9's retiring early. I love flying at Delta and I'm grateful to have a job, but getting off reserve and making more than $80,000/year would be nice. I spend a lot of time away from home commuting to reserve. I can't hold a line anywhere so for me reserve is not a choice.