Death2Daleks

Give an inch and they'll take a mile. If an airline is letting these "little things" go, where else are they cutting corners?

Bill Lumberg

Profit sharing rises to 20% if DL makes over $2.5 billion per year. We go from 15% to 20% for the pilots.

dalad

of the amount over $2.5 billion.

forgot to bid

Well, I have a couple of thinking thoughts.

Now we see what the problem with the C-Series is. They didn't design an E75 size variant. They did an Apple and built the product they wanted but forgot the part where the product still has to be something people would buy. If there was a 70-95 seat version of the C-Series I bet Skywest would've bought it.

See inho if youre going to design a jet like the C-Series today you need to design it as a scope buster. An airplane that economically still fits inside a scope clause like the MRJ, E75 and CR9 but at the drop of a hat it can sit so many more. Then build a 130 seat version of the same plane. That'd give you a distinc advantage over any A&B offering.

Now the MRJ can pull that scope clause trick, Embraer can still do it too, but ot sure if Bombardier can or not. Kind of hope not because I'd love for their not to be a question as to where the super cool C-Series belongs.

I think we're going to miss when RJs were just 50 seaters.

dalad

On the news front, only a few over 100 so far for the early out, 5500 series 75's will start going to the desert in the fall. Possible interviews of new hires in late fall early winter, with hiring in early 13.

Elvis90

Thanks for the update.

forgot to bid

Scope buster = an RJ that sits more than the scope clause allows but can still economically fly within the scope clause limits patiently awaiting for more seats to be allowed.

forgot to bid

What happened to hiring in 2012 for the 717?

Phuz

Sorry George i dont see how MRJs remove Skyw from dci? Its a cr9/e175 size airplane with geared turbofans and less range. They'll put 76 seats on it and it will probably be the staple of rj feed in the 20's.

Doug Masters

We raised the ALV. Come on man, everybody knows that! Good news is we can earn more $ by flying more