100+ DC-9's (since 2008) = 30 possible 90's?.

There were only 116 MD90s ever built and currently only 109 are flying....that includes the 29 Saudi planes with the MD11 avionics. As far as I know, we currently have 19 MD90s actually out on the line. Even if we bought up the entire world fleet, we're not getting '100' more on top of what we already have.

Do you know of a scope sale that our reps do not know about? :D

Point of my point bar is there are limits and even after the RJET 3announcement they can only get 20 more 70+ seat jets, 32 total. That is a long way from the inferred 100 "newer jets."

Thanks. I swear this was buried in an LOA somewhere, but I didn't know if it was automatic or it had to be manually done by CS.

Question, CRJ-100 entered service in 1992, didn't it enter service with Comair around 1992 or 1993? Roughly 18 years let's say.

In that 18 years Southwest with not a sjngle flight outsourced to a regional has made a profit every year. Did we do the same?

30 announced deliveries of MD-90's, 12 more 70 seat jets for a total of 42 announced airplanes.

They can get 20 more 70 seaters and they probably will for a total of 62 airframes. That still leaves 38 more jets (58 without the 20 more allowable RJ's) that would need to be announced to hit that 100 mark Ed made today. Yes?

There is not masking that the 70 seater is the 9 replacement, we are talking about overall fleet count from today forward, and jobs that are currently on property. We must look forward.

It may be, but I'm not sure. I had to do this a while back, commuting ATL-DTW. I had the JS reserved, but an LCA walked up and got it. Something about a reroute and a line check or something like that. Anyway, he was really apologetic about taking the seat on such short notice. The flight was overbooked, but the CPSC had me positive space in less than 5 minutes. Very helpful.

Nope, not yet, but I understand the economics and demographics. We have good people in office, they will be under pressure.

A 70 seater is 92% as good as a 76 seater, maybe better depending on whether you can sell premium seats and seats at convenient times of the day for increased revenue.

The CASM is the real limiting factor, not our scope. The way our contract is written, management will chose the best combination of RASM/CASM every time the economics favor the more efficient airplane. A four passenger Eclipse jet would be a factor if it's CASM were competitively low. It's all about the Benjamins.

This is nothing new. Guess the only reason it's news is because we were told the RJ was dead.

It is continuation of a trend until we fix section 1.

Good to know. I finally found the section covering this in the FOM.

To paraphrase it says we will not be bumped for payload optimization if we are holding a confirmed JS (ie no walkups.) Additionally, if we are bumped for someone more important, we are to call scheduling for positive space (this applies for a TO WORK reservation only)

Thanks guys for the input. Now what are we supposed to do if we are holding for scheduling for 20+ minutes and departure time is nearing?? :p

No kidding Bar, but it is something that the majority voted for. It is not like they are violating our PWA.