Actually wouldn't it be closer to 28% of passengers get Expressed?

21.3 million out of 75.5 million total.

But I agree, it’s still too high of a number. The company is using and increasing 50 seaters beacuase that is all that is left for them to add to Express due to scope choke. Not exactly passenger friendly.

But once they order a 100 seater for mainline, which allows more 76 seater at Express, by contract the 50 seater ratio has to be reduced.

Yeah math in public... agree though - the more in-house the better - and more mainline jobs as well and better control over the quality of the product.

There’s a SA0X family listed on a mainline flight for later today. As we all know, they’re suppose to relist that segment as SA5X. Quick screenshot and email to ETC? How does the gate handle this?

If they let the computer automatically clear standbys it gets taken care of, if the agent does it manually it does not. Bring it to the agent’s attention and they will fix it.

Hope you make it over here soon, good luck. I am not exactly the world’s biggest optimist but this is NOT the same company that screwed your family and many others. The guys who ran Corporate America back then were a special kind of a-hole, today it appears that they understand you can make more money with the employees on board than not. It took firing Smisek, quite possibly the worst CEO in history, to see it clearly.

Again, it’s easy to see NOW. But put yourself in the room at the time. Nobody had any idea what a scourge RJ’s would become.

If your union came to you guys right now and said “which do you want: more E175’s or a fleet of Caravan’s?” which would you choose? The dynamics of the industry completely changed through 9/11, bankruptcy, mergers etc.

You guys look back 25 years ago and make the easy and obvious comment “you shouldn’t have”. Well, I bought Apple stock 25 years ago too. Sold it for a decent little profit 2 years later. If I could magically know then what I know now I’d be rich and retired.

Note AA pulling out of ORD to PVG and PEK as the Chinese steadily dump more capacity into ORD. Guess the “game changer” 787 didn’t help.

I'd take either, as long as they were coming to my airline and not a regional. The whole point of this conversation is that we don't have any 175s anyway. Well my company owns a bunch... but seniority list pilots don't fly them.

The whole point of this conversation is ultimately to demonstrate our resolve to take back what was taken from the profession under the threat of bankruptcy, or liquidity short-fall, or actual bankruptcy contracts.

Mainline flying was taken away from mainline airlines under duress. Pilots felt compelled to help their airlines because their retirements were being threatened. Mainline airlines furloughed and parked jets as well. The result: scope relief. Pilots also had guns to put their heads by bankruptcy judges, and didn't have much say in the matter.

Well, guess what, the tables are turned. Now we have a say in the matter.

HOLD THE LINE and TAKE IT BACK!

Post 9/11 it was an orgy for management to grab as much as they could whether they actually needed it or not- it was disgusting to watch. Then they rubbed it in our face for years, payback is a b****.