The Delta RJ reduction isn't specific to the CRJ-200. It's "50-seat" aircraft. System wide there are 353 50-seaters (ERJ/CRJ).

Chautauqua 26
Comair 30
ExpressJet 93
Pinnacle 141
SkyWest 63
TOTAL 353

The figure I've read has been for a reduction of 218 "50 seaters".

In any event, I'm sure they'll be a big reduction at Pinnacle anyway.

Wow, just.... Wow, I don't even know what to say to you. You tell someone they have failed English and then you come back with this. You, sir, have got to be one of the biggest fools I have had the displeasure of seeing on here. Just, wow...

Let me spell it out for you what the highlighted section means. Out of Pinnacle's entire fleet, a total of 140 (or 141 or 142 depending on your source) are the type (50-seater) that Delta wishes to park. NOT those exact 140 birds. And the number Delta needs to park is Much higher than 140 (as others have explains to you after me edit).

Wow..

You sir, are on a very low level. If you believe delta is only parking that amount of 50 seat rjs, then I truly don't want my family on a plane with u flyin it.

Delta’s ALPA unit says it initiated the ratio concept.

The agreement lets Delta add 70 more 76-seat aircraft to its regional fleet, if it adds 88 mainline narrowbody aircraft and cuts its 50-seat fleet by more than 200 aircraft. But as Delta adds more 76-seat aircraft, the minimum ratio rises.

For example, when Delta adds its first 76-seat aircraft, the ratio starts out as a requirement for Delta to provide 1.1 block hours of flying for every hour of block flying outsourced to Delta Connection carriers. But the ratio increases for every 10 additional 76-seaters that Delta adds to Delta Connection service, ending at a mandate for 1.56 hours of mainline block hours for every hour at Delta Connection if the mainline operator adds at least 61 new 76-seaters to regional carrier operations. Once a new ratio is established, Delta cannot reduce it under most circumstances.

That guarantees mainline pilots at least 60.9% of the domestic block hours if Delta adds 61-70 of the 76-seaters, the Delta ALPA leadership says.

He's probably flame bait

um... it is saying pinnacle has the exact plane they want to phase out, not the exact number that needs to be cut. Reading comprehension is becoming a lost skill.

Read it one more time... the part you have in red. :)

Sounds like you are in denial. Time to face the facts. Pinnacle is on life support at the moment. It's only a matter of time before it shuts down.

Those new CRJ-900's are not going to 9E, more like GoJets, SkyWest. Pinnacle cannot get their crap together and is a dead dinosaur.

Can't do 3 separate list.

That was not your arguement whatsoever. I can repost if u prefer. U said I don't understand English because u claimed that pinnacle has the exact amount of 50 seaters that the new delta scope is going to park. Please quote me where I said anything about pinnacle being financially viable, or stood up for them. Until then go back to second grade, and quit posting. U lost.

If you understood the association structure and how mainline and regional contracts are negotiated and how RFPs and CPAs/ASAs are negotiated and awarded, you would understand that there is absolutely no conflict of interest.