No, and noone is saying there is any significant gain here. Quote

This is what I was referring to. No gain. Its a loss.

No kidding... it is a significant loss. Why is he only counting 36 DC-9s? There was a large fleet of them still when the merger happened.

JYou're missing all the DC-9 30's and 40's that have only been gone for about 5 months now.

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Because I'm wondering about the here and now and what this spells for the future near future. Also the source listed I had listed current 36 Dc-9's in service.

I do realize you parked many many DC-9's post merger (I JS'ed on them regularly), but what is done has already occurred and it's effect on your seniority list has happened (right? I'm making an assumption here), I'm more curious of the effects of this announcement and it's future effects. That is why I counted only 36. Hell, I wish you had 100+ of them still flying, life would be better for everyone, but unfortunately that isn't the case.

I don't work for DL (not directly at least), but I have a personal interest in the growth of your seniority list.

Oil's at $102. It's almost a play by play response to whatever Libya is doing with their aircraft at this very moment.

Also, two USAF airmen murdered and two injured at Frankfurt airport. The airmen were based in Britain.
Military: Slain US airmen were based in UK - Yahoo! News

FWIW, the 1998 count of DC-9s, which was probably at or near the peak:

DC-9-10: 16
DC-9-30: 116
DC-9-40: 12
DC-9-50: 35
MD-80: 8

187 DC-9 variants in service.

To think that a paltry number of MD-90s, that don't even match the mission spec (to use my DAL brothers preferred terminology), is any kind of replacement for this segment of the flying is just spin.

While I agree that any airframes at the mainline is a good thing, all this does is move the bar of scope recapture FURTHER from our goal.

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no it hasn't...does that mean we will furlough...not necessarily but the surplus from these ac being parked is very hard to track when you have so many cards in play....massive training from an up and coming entitlement being one of the big cards....not to mention proposed rest rule changes...implementation times for that....oil .... you get the idea.
When you have so many ac and bases, a few hundred extra pilots isn't a lot. We have more than a thousand at any given time out on sick, military, bypass, long term training....

No.. but my father in law.. who is 80, is named Manning... ooooh that's wierd isn't it?