Thats funny. Never.Gonna.Happen. Not with our group.

Wow. I haven't checked out his blog in quite a while, but I always noticed that while everything seemed interesting, nowhere did I read whether or not they were happy. We taught on the 320 at the same time years ago. I hope everything is going well for him.

The C Series is supposed to be very, unreasonably expensive. I don't see them being able to discount it to where it needs to be for us to pull the trigger on another fleet type…especially a -100 A model media car lithium ion paper mache Guinea pig like that. The 737-700 could be on order tomorrow if BA wasn't so arrogant. That or the 319 would make way more sense. I wouldn't touch the C Series vaporware jet until its been flying for several other airlines for years. Good fuel numbers (supposedly, IF it comes in on spec), comically high price and extremely questionable reliability from a company that still can't even get its own Dash-8 Q400 right. I just don't see DL jumping into that unless they almost give them to us to build street cred.

In any case WRT to the whole DCI sitch, can we at least, finally, all collectively admit we were never going to re-committ/heavy check/re-engine the world's largest 50 seater fleet? If for no other reason than lack of pilots? Can we at least admit that?

Or, if we can't admit that, at LEAST admit that if we did attempt to do that, the current management team would be in major hot water over an already imploding decision with a million articles in every stock feed about how it was one of the biggest blunders of the modern age?

We don't have to admit, accuse or even allege that anyone was duped or any bluff was fallen for or could have been called or whatever. But please can we finally admit they weren't going to re-engine the world's largest 50 seat RJ fleet and finally put that rhetoric behind us?

I don't keep up with the RJ stuff like I used to, but at one time Delta had the largest CF34 overhaul facility on the planet.

There is a 50 seat market. Some (probably about 120 or so) will stick around long term. The rub is that the 76 seater brings in > 50% more revenue at similar ~ 10 to 15% higher block hour and trip cost.

Bombardier and Embraer are good at keeping Delta's secrets. That' part of the deal. I am suprised Delta has not executed the order allowed under C2012 scope, after all gettng the large RJ's as swaps was a major part of that deal ... then, nothing.

Short call question,

In my "Bucket", I am the most senior and there are 4 people junior to me with no short calls or flight time for the month. I had a carry in trip worth a little credit. How did I get the short call for tomorrow? I thought it was inverse seniority within your bucket and days of availability?

Thanks

Call and ask skeds. They should be able to tell you what happened. Pls keep us posted!

So a discredited airline manager high on outsourcing told you a decade and a half ago ... same guy as crashed and burned Delta while spending a lot of his Executive's time engineering bankruptcy proof compensation packages for themselves and their buddies ... and we (labor) still buy it?

How about the 25 billion or so in acquisition costs, capex and strikes?

I'm still not believing outsourcing is all that great a deal for Delta. No discredit to you. I never liked Leo or Fred.

Yes they have, but they've never faced this kind of market pressure, in terms of supply of regional pilots. Add that to the equation, along with the ability to add as many seats as they want to the RJ and fly it anywhere with no restrictions, and the numbers start looking a whole lot better.

Absolutely!!

It's inverse seniority order with days of availability and the number of short call credits for the month. Call scheduling supervisor tonight, and ALPA tomorrow if necessary.