It's definitely been considered, but I don't know how high it sits WRT priority.

Disagree - scope seats and management will just have to decide what aircraft to economically use with those seats.

I'd be willing to be we'll see a DTW 737 base within a year.

Seems like all the junk from that site is just that,
junk!

The DTW based is planned to open when the 737-900ER start to arrive. That way they don't have to displace or retrain anyone within the category.

This just proves that DAL will put 737s in DTW bwfore the 900s come. They LOVE to displace and retrain.

If you stop at seats, this is right around the corner:

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Yep, might as well have those A319s configured for charters be flown by GoJets

Sailing, I agree with your sentiment exactly, the seat limitation especially with the "jet" moniker attached is an obsolete way of controlling the situation.
The new big turboprops currently entering production/planned will mount a credible challenge to our scope current limits on large aircraft (or lack thereof for props).
In the recent past, DALPA had success in limiting a type that exceeded the MTOW limits in our PWA with great success even though the seats were very limited for that type.

I'd suggest using a limit of highest certified max gross takeoff weight as the limit to prevent reopening scope talks every time a new aircraft type is introduced to the fleet. Otherwise it just leaves too much "temptation" to use scope as bargaining currency—spent to get something else—which is exactly how we got to where we are today.

Cheers
George

You know an ex-Apple employee claimed that Apple is so paranoid about new employees leaking information that they put them to work on fake products until they can be trusted.

When I was in indoc they explained that some secret marketing plans had been leaked on airliners.net forums, probably by someone who wanted to be the smartest person in a room even though that doesn't exist and people are anonymous.

Hence:
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The irony, I copied that and may have embellished some parts. :D

So to say the airliners.net crowd does indeed have insight is absolutely true. They also have a lot of idiots. But they do have insight. The question is, what if it's a head fake and the only thing that's going to happen Monday is a Q&A with someones boss?