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Originally Posted by cfitstew View Post
Personally, I think DCI shrinking is a good thing. The less airplanes that say "Express", "Connection", or "----Link" flying around out there the better it will be for the profession. In the end, less regional flying will ultimately lead to more mainline flying and I'm all for that. And I work at a DCI carrier.
Anyone remember Eastern Metro? Same economic model applies here. Much of the reason DCI is being cut is:Originally Posted by cfitstew View Post
Personally, I think DCI shrinking is a good thing. The less airplanes that say "Express", "Connection", or "----Link" flying around out there the better it will be for the profession. In the end, less regional flying will ultimately lead to more mainline flying and I'm all for that. And I work at a DCI carrier.
(1) Mainline is shrinking, and DCI is as much as 60% of "Delta" departures
(2) Delta isn't making money on the DCI operation
(3) Delta can rationalize and align the DCI network without waiting for SOC.
A "Delta block hour" is a Delta block hour. Management does not see these as exclusive block hours that belong to Comair, SkyWest, or an MD88. Frankly, we don't need to make that distinction either.
The distinction we should focus on is what is happening to mainline flying. It is too easy to be distracted by seeing how the pain is distributed and use that as an excuse that we did well, when in fact, we've continued to outsource to larger RJ's.