Scope Language out
01-18-2023 | 06:48 AM
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You need to read the agreement again. The Company can throw a narrow body on RDU-CDG, but it won't count towards the hours that they have to put on a wide body. Plus there is additional protections in Section 3 should they decide to send narrowbodies over the ocean on a regular basis.
01-18-2023 | 07:42 AM
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I’m not worried of Delta throwing a NB I’m worried about our partner swapping to NBs and driving down our required WB via the ratio. The only protection on this is the 80% floor. I wonder if 20% of block hours is possible to swap to NB? I’m not sure if it is, but it doesn’t give me a warm fuzzy feeling that we failed to account for this possibility.
01-18-2023 | 07:57 AM
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I haven't a clue. I did my best reading through the Global Scope TA and while a lot of it sounds good the lack of NB protection is a concern to me, especially given the emphasis on protecting against supersonic aircraft. I'd put the former as a a higher threat than the latter. Could be 5 years, could be 20. Maybe it's knocking on our door before the amendable date and we're all wondering why they didn't think of that.
01-18-2023 | 08:37 AM
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01-18-2023 | 12:27 PM
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Yes. I'm not even necessarily saying this is a deal breaker, there's plenty of good stuff in this GSTA. I'm just trying to understand why supersonic was perceived as a more imminent threat than NB toward WB flying.
01-19-2023 | 06:08 AM
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My worry isn't NB flying across the Atlantic by a partner, it's NB flying to South America by LATAM. They already have 16 A320neo. Those planes can do a lot of north South America to ATL and MIA. And they won't be limited by this TA.
01-19-2023 | 06:17 AM
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There will be a forthcoming Scope notepad regarding NB flying that will put everyone's mind to ease over this.
01-19-2023 | 06:28 AM
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I didn’t see that coming. Honestly I thought it might be more contentious than the AIP/TA.
As an aside, I understand they can’t send everything out at once, but for future ref a quick FAQ would go a long way. Stuff like this NB block hours etc, to “head it off at the pass” before we run away.
As an aside, I understand they can’t send everything out at once, but for future ref a quick FAQ would go a long way. Stuff like this NB block hours etc, to “head it off at the pass” before we run away.
01-19-2023 | 06:55 AM
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There will be more information coming out. I think we just need to breathe a bit. Scope is obviously a complex issue that everyone that requires a lot of education to clear it up. ELI5 etc.
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