Ed’s Interview With Maria
10-19-2018 | 01:24 PM
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What does Delta do with all the 55 seater slots they own on the east coast, do they operate the CRJ 700 with 55 seats? You guys own ~100 per day at LGA alone, that's a massive amount of market share, and most slots, under the FAR 93.123 exception, are used for mainline aircraft.
Well they can use 50 seaters. Or if they're desperate for those 5 seats, they can use 70 seaters with 55 installed, with a paperwork pencil whip recert if necessary. That would actually be a really nice product with a 3 class option, 2 bathrooms, a spare FA JS and an expanded galley and hardly ever a W&B issue. Or they can get someone to make a new 55 seater. If they run out of pilots (for the what they are offering anyway) they can pull down 90 seaters to fund the manpower and shift that reallocated flying to mainline in whatever airframe they want to. If that doesn't work, then it gets political and we can get the limits changed. I doubt it will come to that though.
10-19-2018 | 01:25 PM
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Well first of all I don't gaf about the small airplanes below mainline. They aren't costing us any jobs at all right now. I sincerely hope the pilot group as a whole has learned that the RJ experiment has been doomed to fail for quite some time and will not waste one copper penny in negotiating it away. It is a dead man walking. DAL has already scaled back far more than either of our competitors. The last I heard, we have over 100 fewer RJs under our umbrella than UAL, and 150 fewer than AAL. I guess there will always be some of that out there, but it's significance is waning with each passing day. But more to the point, when the lift necessitates it - and I assume you are referring to LGA slots - those airplanes will get bigger.
10-19-2018 | 03:50 PM
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I think the 50 seaters are dead but not the 76. Gaining ground on bottom-end scope is not a top priority of mine but I certainly don't want to go in the other direction and give the company more access to 76 seaters (not that you're suggesting that). Of course in a perfect pilot world we'd just get 2 A220s for every 3 76 seat RJ we've got and the era of regionals would fade into history.
Delta acquired that NY market share in a series of deals, the most recent being the slot swap. Those are worth billions to the company, they aren't going to give them up. Getting rid of 50 seat RJ's would cost them a ~40% reduction in market share. Not to mention the ability to cancel RJ slots during IROP for mainline schedule integrity.
10-19-2018 | 04:14 PM
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At high density airports, a certain amount of slots are allocated to small aircraft by the FARs. To maintain those slots, mainline will have to operate a jet that has 55 seats or less. FAR 93.123 This is probably the main reason regional jets still exist at Delta.
Delta acquired that NY market share in a series of deals, the most recent being the slot swap. Those are worth billions to the company, they aren't going to give them up. Getting rid of 50 seat RJ's would cost them a ~40% reduction in market share. Not to mention the ability to cancel RJ slots during IROP for mainline schedule integrity.
Delta acquired that NY market share in a series of deals, the most recent being the slot swap. Those are worth billions to the company, they aren't going to give them up. Getting rid of 50 seat RJ's would cost them a ~40% reduction in market share. Not to mention the ability to cancel RJ slots during IROP for mainline schedule integrity.
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