Originally Posted by newKnow (Post 518348)

Bar,

Finially, a lot of us (me included) have no desire to commute to ATL where they have massive delays when thee is onel cloud over Alabama. :)

New K Now

Originally Posted by 80ktsClamp (Post 518575)

I am such a nerd...

Theres a light next to the FO's airspeed indicator that isnt on DL planes, and there isnt a blank place in between the ADI and altimeter that is on DL planes.


I'm going to go dress up in a storm trooper uniform now....

Originally Posted by acl65pilot (Post 518074)

No express, Compass is your new B scale, until the union is ready to bring Compass on to the bottom of the list, it is the best that you can hope for!!

Read section 1

Total number of big rj's is limited to 225. From where we are now it is 3 RJ's for each mainline jet. Add to it that DAL is trying to reduce 50 seaters, it makes for a very difficult process.
The DCI contract that were signed in CH 11 and shortly thereafter are a legal nightmare for DAL. Each DCI carrier knows it too. They are the ones with most of the upper hands. DAL has a few though. Every five years we rework a few sections of the contract. Many of those contracts are entering in to this first five year window. Things like compensation, hold backs, through cost, etc are going to be reworked. A few of them have min limit points. Many of those are very close to the floors that were set.
What this means is that to shrink DCI, mainline will need to shrink.

Now on to your questions.
Yes, DAL offered 1 CRJ 900 in return to park 2 CRJ 200's. This would have been the easiest way to shrink DCI. No courts no hard feelings, but the DCI carriers have employees that they need to keep happy to. Doing this replacement leaves 50% of the work group on the street. It is not something that many want to do right now. In a few years when attrition is high at the regional level they would take this deal and run with it. Just not in these times.

Fact is that Compass should grow. It is the best place to do so, but like OH, you will probably see them stagnate. The will be kept to a min level of flying in the down turn. Now when the economy recovers you will probably see the wholly owned carriers grow so that in the next down turn they do not have the issues with shrinking the contract carriers that they are having today.

Originally Posted by acl65pilot (Post 518116)

It is small so that they can add "Connection" below it. ;)

Originally Posted by Justdoinmyjob (Post 518697)

The heading selector switch is also different.

Originally Posted by satchip (Post 518748)

What did you guys do, blow up the picture to super size?

Originally Posted by reddog25 (Post 518683)

I just got thru blowing snow from my driveway (for my southern bretheran that's not a drug term) the temp is 1 degrees F, my dog crys when she has to go out and poop........... SO...YES I WILL BID ATL as soon a I can and get the hell out of this ice box I've lived in for 21 years,........:D