The Victors
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That didn't work for JB, so why do you think that will work for AT?If they're willing to pay top dollar for the leases, they can get 190's or 195's at about 2 per month starting 5-6 months from now after getting fast-track FAA approval for the training program and ops specs authorization.
I'm not hearing that this is a 717 replacement, I'm hearing that this is the growth vehicle for smaller market growth so they don't have to compete head-to-head with SWA and wait until the Midwest deal is done which may take another year or two if the BOD doesn't go for it at this meeting and they have to elect another 3 officers to the MEH BOD next year to gain control.
Once they have a city to grow larger SNB's again, the 737 deliveries will resume.
This is all pure heresay from the people currently in training right now but the instructors are Alteon usually know before we do...
And yes, I hear the pay rates are absolutely abysmal.
At our current ASM's, I understand no more than 15-20 aircraft configured from 79-86 seats with the new T.A., assuming a 9 block hour average per aircaft per day. That's also heresay from the people who are more mathematically inclined than I am on current ASM's.
Personally, I'm not for ANY give-backs on Scope. That's why my vote is as follows:
http://home.earthlink.net/~lear70/No_TA_final.jpg
If there's an A on the tail, AirTran pilots are flying it. Period.