Longer stage lengths are more productive and more profitable for the company and the pilot group.
Not at all as cut and dried/black and white as that. If a 200 is flying 8-10-12 legs a day, that's how many chances it had to manage that revenue
If a 200 is only flying 6-8 legs in a day, well, that's less chances that plane had to manage that revenue. Now toss in ticket pricing, if you assume that they were at least semi equal, what was more profitable? If the longer stage lengths were charging LESS than the short ones, what's more profitable?
Like I said, it's not really that easy to sum up. Toss in that the 200 may be going to smaller markets that are close to ATL and a company like ASA may be 1 of 2, or possibly the ONLY carrier serving the city. The ability for DAL to charge a hefty fare is pretty good.
Does skywest own Dal or Ual? Other wise he may not have a choice in the matter, hang on its gonna be a fun ride!!
Good point, but UAL does owe Jerry a hefty amount of money. And by the time UAL pays it off at the terms they agreed to, Jerry will be laughing in the end.
Mainline pilots will not vote to allow anymore 70/76 seaters. We've learned our lesson, and we aren't in BK or even close to it. There is a limit, and then it will stop, or go backwards and the number will get smaller.
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We can only hope it's that way. But you'll ALWAYS have the seniority demographic screwing everything up. The senior pilots and the "I got mine" mentality. Sadly, it will NEVER go away in the this career. Couple that with carrots dangled in negotiations such as scope for a bigger retirement, and you can see what I'm getting at. Also, pilots seem to suffer from severe cases of amnesia. In other words, we seem to forget past mistakes. Case in point, the CRJ first arrives on the scene, bad. Never should have happened/been agreed to. Later, a big fat pay check is dangled for more RJ's, even worse, never should have happened.
Like I said, we can only hope what you said pans out. But given what mainline has done over the last 15 or so years during both the "glory days" and the worst times ever seen in the industry, I'll believe it all when I see it. Not before.
