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so what is up with the whole "NewCo" deal? Alive, Dead or some new "S" company (3rd regional). I'm assuming it's part of the concessions.

Is it 100 (76 seat jets) or 76 (100 seat jets)?

NEWCO is alive....the numbers ahven't been formalized...however an unidentified reliable source........looks like 55 76 seat jets to be flown by pinnacle or Mesaba, and NEWCO gets the first 90 77-110 seat jets. After that some sort of ratio between NEWCO and NWA.....Again not confirmed, but if that's true, my belief is that it will be voted down...My vote will be NO

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Originally Posted by crewdawg52

I'll bet anything that they won't do away with open time. Right now, there are 4 pages of open trips on the DTW A320 f/0 board. 13 trips departing 8-12 march alone. Last month, they were calling up captains to sit in the f/0 seat to fly some trips. It's not the schedulers fault. That's how NWA works. It's cheaper to use reserves and let pilots to pick from the open board than to "rehire" furloughed pilots. I don't like it, but that how things are done.

Why would they do away with open time and reduce the monthly garuntee unless they wanted to spread the flying out over more pilots?

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