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06-05-2012, 10:34 AM
#21
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Originally Posted by 80ktsClamp
It's not a 90 seat airplane if you want to use it the way DL wants to use it. In reality it's an 80-82 seat airplane.
06-05-2012, 10:49 AM
#22
Da Hudge
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Originally Posted by tsquare
That might be what the WANT.. but they have to put 76 seats or less on it. As far as I am concerned, it is a 76 seat airplane... no further discussion is warranted because contractually, that is all it will be.
06-05-2012, 10:55 AM
#23
Line Holder
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Originally Posted by 80ktsClamp
255 airplanes was all that was allowed as a "hard cap" contractually as well, but here we are looking at 325.
06-05-2012, 10:58 AM
#24
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Originally Posted by ReasonableMan
That's like driving 2 miles down the hwy to pay $3.37 per gallon of gas vice $3.40 per gallon of gas.
06-05-2012, 11:04 AM
#25
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Originally Posted by 80ktsClamp
It's not a 90 seat airplane if you want to use it the way DL wants to use it. In reality it's an 80-82 seat airplane.
And by they I mean the company.
And DALPA.
06-05-2012, 11:07 AM
#26
Da Hudge
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Originally Posted by NwaBusDriver
Wasn't there once a 70 seat limit also? That line in sand changes with every high tide.
06-05-2012, 11:09 AM
#27
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Originally Posted by gloopy
They already have that LOA in a PDF ready to hit print during the next crisis.
And by they I mean the company.
And DALPA.
And by they I mean the company.
And DALPA.
06-05-2012, 11:11 AM
#28
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Originally Posted by tsquare
That might be what the WANT.. but they have to put 76 seats or less on it. As far as I am concerned, it is a 76 seat airplane... no further discussion is warranted because contractually, that is all it will be.
Since we're into upping the GW for non union, won't-hire-furloughed-DL-pilots-unless-they-resign-from-DL Delta Private Jets to a cat hair under 100Klbs (even though we currently own the rights to all jobs in those jets and just won a grievance on it) then when is the line in the sand going to stop moving?
If the CRJ900/905 or EMB175 or whatever we are outsourcing is really an 82 seater in a viable 2 class config but we're "limiting" them to 76 seats, then the writing is on the wall for that "line in the sand" as well. Next big crisis and that line will move again. Book it.
06-05-2012, 11:28 AM
#29
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This TA will pass and there will be larger RJ'S in the system. That is just the way it is and the way it is going to be. Once again it will pass.......
06-05-2012, 11:48 AM
#30
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Originally Posted by 80ktsClamp
255 airplanes was all that was allowed as a "hard cap" contractually as well, but here we are looking at 325.
