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Interesting, but...
Now I understand what did not make sense to me at the beginning of August....
I went to Fred Reid's meeting with the pilots and hung around afterwards to ask DCI type questions. When I asked about aircraft the first thing said was that Delta would like to be rid of the Dornier jets. I asked if this was due to ACAI's announced intent and violations of the Delta Pilots' PWA, they said "no" and acted like it was the first time they had heard of the scope limitation. They did say that they did not like the reliability and cost of operating the aircraft for the ASM it produces.
Later the same week DCI's President was quoted in Reeds Business as saying that Delta was looking at ecercising options for Canadair equipment, if they could get scope relief, or Embraer jets. IMHO the Embraer jets might be 145 instead of the 170 / 190 that everyone assumed he was talking about.
And there remains the issue of scope. DCI is back up against the percentage of block hour limits. There is not much "growth" to be had within DCI and (I may be mistaken) scope does not come back on the table until 2005.
The way I'm thinking, a likely scenario is that ACA is phased out and Comair phased in with current equipment deliveries. Not only does this make sense from a scope view, but also the CRJ produces nearly 200% the ASMs the Dornier Jet does, so it allows for growth AND Delta is out of money. They simply do not have the Capital / cash flow for buying new equipment unless somehow DCI is split away from mainline Delta.
Now I understand what did not make sense to me at the beginning of August....
I went to Fred Reid's meeting with the pilots and hung around afterwards to ask DCI type questions. When I asked about aircraft the first thing said was that Delta would like to be rid of the Dornier jets. I asked if this was due to ACAI's announced intent and violations of the Delta Pilots' PWA, they said "no" and acted like it was the first time they had heard of the scope limitation. They did say that they did not like the reliability and cost of operating the aircraft for the ASM it produces.
Later the same week DCI's President was quoted in Reeds Business as saying that Delta was looking at ecercising options for Canadair equipment, if they could get scope relief, or Embraer jets. IMHO the Embraer jets might be 145 instead of the 170 / 190 that everyone assumed he was talking about.
And there remains the issue of scope. DCI is back up against the percentage of block hour limits. There is not much "growth" to be had within DCI and (I may be mistaken) scope does not come back on the table until 2005.
The way I'm thinking, a likely scenario is that ACA is phased out and Comair phased in with current equipment deliveries. Not only does this make sense from a scope view, but also the CRJ produces nearly 200% the ASMs the Dornier Jet does, so it allows for growth AND Delta is out of money. They simply do not have the Capital / cash flow for buying new equipment unless somehow DCI is split away from mainline Delta.
