DiverDriver
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I love the puddle jumper comment when people get on. Yah, it's a puddle jumper. If you consider the Great Lakes (all of them) puddles.
Had a little girl screaming down the jetbridge the other day "I'M GONNA DIE, THAT AIRPLANE IS TOO SMALL, I DON'T WANNA DIE!!!" Her poor father looked so sheepishly at us, all we could do was laugh.
When an RJ is too small for a 6 year old girl of all people, you know there is a problem...
Was she getting on a Comair flight?
A metaphor such as the F terminal at ORD being: The fall of Saigon re-enactment?
Delta is very smart about using the RJ's to get the passengers in their 757's and 767's to make a profit. Delta looks at more than just the DCI part of the customer's trip - they analyze the margins.Jerry Atkin was a pioneer in the fee-for-departure when he inked a deal with Delta to actually make a profit on the CRJ back in '95-'96. Delta wanted the CRJ to fly routes but didn't have the loads to allow SkyWest to break even.
I hope you are right, but history tells a different story. In almost every previous buy out management has wanted to re-staff with new hires and usually the incumbant pilots are willing to even sign concessionary "B scales" on flying that they know they will never have to perform. The only reason pilots got integrated in the past was because of ALPA.Competition is going to get fierce in the next couple of years. However, I don't believe that will affect us too much as pilots. With the "qualified" pilot shortage, airlines will buyout competitors, not for physical assets, but for their pilots/mechanics and other trained labor