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You have said it yourself that WE don't make the aircraft purchase decisions.

Absent a contract could the company have done exactly what it did? Yes.

And.........? Don't tell me you are falling victim to ftb's points. I thought you were smarter than that.

TANSTAAFL

09-07-2012 11:26 AM

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Originally Posted by johnso29 (Post 1257387)

Well AS is way over 66, and HA falls short of 60. Spirit does too.......

Alliegant has 64,! :eek: !

tsquare

09-07-2012 11:26 AM

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Originally Posted by forgot to bid (Post 1257442)

645 domestic + 151 international = 796.

645 using average BH of 3428 and 450 DCI using 2775 gives a ratio of around 1.77.

Per the contract.

Where did you get those numbers? I'm not going on wild goose chases.

80ktsClamp

09-07-2012 11:27 AM

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Originally Posted by 80ktsClamp (Post 1257140)

Scope, ladies and gentlemen:

http://cdn-www.airliners.net/aviatio.../3/0000301.jpg

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Originally Posted by tsquare (Post 1257312)

But don't you keep saying ours sucks?

How dense are you? That picture was in 1995... around the time the RJ cat was let out of the bag.

forgot to bid

09-07-2012 11:30 AM

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Originally Posted by tsquare (Post 1257447)

Where did you get those numbers? I'm not going on wild goose chases.

alfa's math question pre vote and fleet total for 2011.

tsquare

09-07-2012 11:30 AM

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Originally Posted by 80ktsClamp (Post 1257449)

How dense are you? That picture was in 1995... around the time the RJ cat was let out of the bag.

Yup... IND. Got it.

80ktsClamp

09-07-2012 11:30 AM

Note that the projected fleet count is well below what it would have had to be for DCI to get 70 more jumbo RJs.

88 growth airplanes? Nope! Only a few more than what we had when we merged.

http://i0.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/...4/facepalm.jpg

I do think (hope) we'll start hiring sooner rather than later...

forgot to bid

09-07-2012 11:32 AM

80, a CRJ-200 in 1995 was a great replacement of the unwanted, uncomfortable and obnoxious EMB-120s that Comair and ASA operated.

Just like the CRJ-900/E175 are great replacements of the unwanted, uncomfortable and obnoxious CRJ-200s that Comair and ASA operated... and Skywest and Pinnacle operated.

Rinse, repeat.

tsquare

09-07-2012 11:34 AM

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Originally Posted by forgot to bid (Post 1257450)

alfa's math question pre vote and fleet total for 2011.

I'll take your word on that. I do remember that they used the company's plan that resulted in somewhere around 1.7 BLH, and I always hated that number because it is way more optimistic than the limit of the contract. That being said though, there is now a floor, and that is a good thing. You can go on hating all you want, and you are only hurting yourself. I choose to look forward and see where we are going next, and it is up from here.

Or maybe you would rather we go the route of AMR or UCal or even SWA?

JungleBus

09-07-2012 11:35 AM

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Originally Posted by 80ktsClamp (Post 1257449)

How dense are you? That picture was in 1995... around the time the RJ cat was let out of the bag.

Don't worry 80kts, DALPA is putting it back in the bag, one aging inefficient 50-seater at a time, as early as 4 years before they'd have come off lease anyways - and at the low, low cost of two additional outsourced Compasses! Winning! :D

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