Originally Posted by Carl Spackler (Post 861277)

And when upper corporate management does their deals, they have the impediments of the White House, Congress, opposing lobbyists and FAA as well. Somehow they've figured out a way to move fast and nimbly.

Carl

Originally Posted by shiznit (Post 861286)

Yep... And these are the routes that RJ's should have been operating since the beginning (not JFK-IAH, EWR-CLT, SLC-LAX)...

1. We are pretty much at the cap for larger RJ's, and are cutting every 50 seater they can as fast as they can legally cut them

2. They are not very profitable, and we are stuck in long term contracts with more than we need.

I think this is a great use of them in the interim....Also it frees up larger gauge equipment on routes that can handle it and takes inventory out of the system in other places to allow for higher prices in a supply/demand curve.

Originally Posted by acl65pilot (Post 861213)

Chuck that is good, because with more airplanes comes the need for more bodies. I just cannot wait to see what the yoy bump in summer 2011 block hrs is going to be. Based on that we will see if we need more bodies for next summer.

Originally Posted by Ponch (Post 861223)

Getting more 90s is great! But can we now get someone to finally try to get 90 pay for all 88 guys? When you fly a 75 you get 76 pay. When you fly a 737-700 you get -800 pay. When you fly an A319, you get A320 pay. So why when I fly an 88, do I not get 90 pay? It's the same category, even more so now that all 88 bases will be 90 trained. Here's an idea, next time the company wants a side letter, we say "sure.....just sign this first"!

Originally Posted by Carl Spackler (Post 861274)

Interesting perspective, and thanks for giving it. I can see you and others may have taken those opinions as blame of south guys, but it truly is not. Again, all of us know that you guys are just line pilots like the rest of us - no blame on you at all.

As far as the Amish jokes, that's just me being a y-zass. Can't help that part dude, it's in the DNA. And for the record, I've never said things around here are being run by the Amish. I've just said that it would be an improvement if they did.

I did it again...didn't I :D

Carl

Originally Posted by Carl Spackler (Post 861244)

Everything I say is decisive dude. ;)

Carl

Originally Posted by Carl Spackler (Post 861262)

I know you're probably right on this man, but our upper corporate management has done some pretty cool things very, very rapidly. So at least some of our managers have gotten their feet free of the molasses.

Carl