Wow, you're a CAL guy, that's great. Thanks for all of the help with your FANTASTIC work rules that haven't helped anyone in years. Your pay isn't great, and you had no insurance for your new guys for the first 6 months. You guys couldn't lead anyone out of a paper bag..
The large TPs didn't create black holes? How about your 737-500s in EWR? Where did they go? Many were parked and then sold to Russian airlines. After the Colgan DH8-400s showed up, many went away. The big dashes started taking over multiple short haul routes out of EWR, and then they started doing the same out of CLE and eventually IAH. You have far fewer 735s now than you did before the large TPs. Admit it! 32 Dashes meant 32 fewer 735s.
And your scope was so good that Jeff figured out to just put "United Express" bigger RJs through IAH, CLE, and EWR, and flew past it.(CAL Scope) Those planes didn't say "Continental Express", they said "United Express." Jeff has been steam rolling you the whole time, and of course you blame ALPA........you need to re-read your stuff before you sign the dotted line! But, you will still blame DL and ALPA, even though your own shortsightedness has brought larger RJs to EWR. Get that? YOUR OWN.
So, how did that "plan" of yours work, trying to force Boeing or someone else to get you a 100 seater? Anyone come up with one? Did you try the C-Series? You could have ordered that one? How about the E190? Your management didn't want it. They still don't it appears. Do you really think the "90" seater is a "90 seater"? It may have a frame that big, but it is limited to 76 seats, with a first class section. That's 10 more seats than your 66 seater, which is really a 70 seater. The 717 carries a lot more than that, and is a lot newer than many planes out there. It will add jobs and go back to cities currently flown by CR9s and E175s, which will now cover old 50 seat routes. You only WISH you could have come up with a plan like that. Instead, you are left without any suitable 100 seater for the next few years, and that means your RJs will continue to fly those routes, competing against DL 717s on many.
And in the end, you are stuck with even more money losing 50 seaters than the rest of us, and you're happy with that! That is crazy. You have more props(Don't forget the SKW props in SFO/LAX/SEA) and 50 seaters than anyone else. Congrats. I wonder who you will blame.....????
Bye Bye---General Lee