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10-27-2012 | 07:16 AM

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Phuz

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No. This is incorrect. DCI airframes (excluding turboprops with 37 seats or less and a MGTOW of 37,000 lbs) will be limited to 450. EMB140's would be included.

Is there any limit on airframes beneath that Johnso? I know Silver (aka gulfstream) has started flying SAABs for y'all recently out of ATL and I believe they have more airplanes on order. If I remember right the saab is <30k/36seats. And I dont have the numbers but it seems that they've been increasing the codeshare flying with Great Lakes in MSP.

10-27-2012 | 07:18 AM

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Silver doesn't count because its a codeshare and not actually flying as Delta Connection.

10-27-2012 | 07:35 AM

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Silver doesn't count because its a codeshare and not actually flying as Delta Connection.

Same with Lakes then. So it sounds like unlimited 'codesharing' at the 340b level.

10-27-2012 | 07:51 AM

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Did anyone else notice how the article referred to "mainline" jets of 76 SEATS and more. They are including 900s in the mailine category. This may have simply been a mistake by the writer but I goin it interesting.

10-27-2012 | 07:57 AM

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Nope. They could fly hundreds of 1-37 seat turbo props around. They don't have a limit.

10-27-2012 | 08:01 AM

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Same with Lakes then. So it sounds like unlimited 'codesharing' at the 340b level.

Looking at Delta's international flying, looks like it's unlimited codeshare flying in anything....

10-27-2012 | 08:03 AM

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Nope. They could fly hundreds of 1-37 seat turbo props around. They don't have a limit.

They will probably regret that someday, just like they regretted unlimited 50 seat jets 10 years ago. Silver is a fast growing cancer in ATL. In case you haven't noticed, Mainline 319s and -88s have been doing a couple of flights a day most of the ASA 50 cities like AGS, CHA, and TRI. This has been a triumph of "taking it back". How long do you think it will take DAL to figure out how much cheaper it is to just run 4 340s a day to every city within 300nm of ATL?

DALPA will always be their own worst enemy, due to their shortsightedness.

10-27-2012 | 08:04 AM

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I can't remember the last article I read about the airline industry that didn't have mistakes in it.

10-27-2012 | 08:36 AM

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I think that the only way Compass gets into the fray is that if the deal that Embraer has made DL an offer that they can't refuse. DL still has 36 options for the Embraer 170/175. Compass has a slight chance to see some new airframes because we are already cheap and our costs are not going to go up much, if any, because of how our contract will be amended. And the 175 is a better airplane than the 900. It's more of a mainline airplane. But we only have the 36 we currently have on line that have a MTOW cutout in the current CBA agreement for DAL Pilots. Anything new would not be part of that cutout.

10-27-2012 | 08:46 AM

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If DAL chooses the Embraer, I don't think that RAH will see any of them because Anderson views RAH as the competition. I don't think that he wants to give them additional revenue.