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At the end of the day is the proven job growth from C2012 a result of Management and a Union working together as long strategic partners to come to an agreement that benefits both sides or are Delta pilots just fortunate enough to have a management team that finds excellent deals no other legacy can and will grow Mainline anyway with or without the Union's cooperation?
If virgin Atlantic promised us free a346s, ftb dream, plus airbus said free a319neos, ftb dream, that would just be great for the pilots. They'd be so happy. Evil management me would tell everyone, wait til 2020.
And then I'd have to find something to squeeze the pilots on for c2019 using these aircraft as the carrot. Why waste the opportunity? See if sjs works... it's worth a shot.
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Just curious. The rollout of the 717 was predicated on remapping our regional airlines. That required Delta to renegotiate numerous long term contracts. Do you think the regionals would have agreed to simply slash their fleets absent a agreement to allow them to bring on bigger equipment?
A super premium wide body order contingent on anything RJ is absolutely asinine and I don't think anywhere near 50%+1 will even come close to falling for it, not even with mass quantities of conceptual hope/emotion centric retirement chaff popped all over the place.
I'd like to think we've fallen for the "sign this contract and get x jets!" for the last time.
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I'm guessing no hats, snappy jackets and six PS's a year.
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While I still don't think the absolutely amazing deal we got on the 717's was actually contingent on anything in C12 (there was no way they'd have passed that deal up to invest big league long term into 50 seaters they couldn't staff anyway LOL!) Nevertheless, the concept of 717's in at least a vague relation to RJ's was at least in the same ballpark conceptually.
A super premium wide body order contingent on anything RJ is absolutely asinine and I don't think anywhere near 50%+1 will even come close to falling for it, not even with mass quantities of conceptual hope/emotion centric retirement chaff popped all over the place.
A super premium wide body order contingent on anything RJ is absolutely asinine and I don't think anywhere near 50%+1 will even come close to falling for it, not even with mass quantities of conceptual hope/emotion centric retirement chaff popped all over the place.
I think of it this way, if i put myself in managements shoes I would never let anything good for the pilots go to "waste".
If virgin Atlantic promised us free a346s, ftb dream, plus airbus said free a319neos, ftb dream, that would just be great for the pilots. They'd be so happy. Evil management me would tell everyone, wait til 2020.
And then I'd have to find something to squeeze the pilots on for c2019 using these aircraft as the carrot. Why waste the opportunity? See if sjs works... it's worth a shot.
If virgin Atlantic promised us free a346s, ftb dream, plus airbus said free a319neos, ftb dream, that would just be great for the pilots. They'd be so happy. Evil management me would tell everyone, wait til 2020.
And then I'd have to find something to squeeze the pilots on for c2019 using these aircraft as the carrot. Why waste the opportunity? See if sjs works... it's worth a shot.
I really hope we get some used A346’s from somewhere, for your sake. I know you’re dying to fly it.
I think it’d be a pretty fun airplane too. I’d bid it.
Bummer is no 747s to go with my a346s. That way we could have
777s
747s
350s
340s
330s
320s
737s
756s
764s
717s
88s
210s
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In any case, I still don't buy the idea that they would have instead invested billions into decrepit obsolete guzzler 50 seaters that everyone hated and that they couldn't staff. Had they done that, they would have been right back in 2014ish begging for relief and offering another aircraft order deal because that simply wouldn't have worked for ten a few years before collapsing all round them.
Then again, when airline management makes mistakes, they make them in the Billion$ so there's at least president for that theory.
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