How many passengers did the 727-100 carry?

[RJDC]

How does the 727-100 compare to the CRJ-900 and EMB-190 as to the number of passengers that it can carry?

 

[ReportCanoa]

Seventy-one.

 

[Quimby]

Around 90-130, depending on seating configuration.

 

[RJDC]

That's what I thought, thanks. It's amazing that the new RJ's are encroaching on it's former territory.

 

[jehtplane]

That's what I thought, thanks. It's amazing that the new RJ's are encroaching on it's former territory.

RJ is just a term that could very well have applied ot the 727-100 or F-28, or DC-9-10, just to name a few. It is a label, that's all!

 

[smfav8r]

That's what I thought, thanks. It's amazing that the new RJ's are encroaching on it's former territory.

How about the DC9 (NW,US,DL,CO) F100 (AA,US) F28 (US) 146(US) 737-200 (US,DL,UAL,CO)

The big RJ's compete with all of the above mainline equipment.

The whole crew of a CRJ9 or EMB190 makes less then what a captain made on a similiar piece of equipment.

DALPA screwed the career of airline pilots the minute they signed the agreement to let these jets go to express/code-share.

It's been close to 15 years since the brat-jets have been flying and it has helped put many careers in the toilet!

 

[Nindiri]

How exactly was DALPA supposed to stop them?

 

[smfav8r]

How exactly was DALPA supposed to stop them?

The RJ should have been a mainline aircraft....an newer DC9/F28.

The Delta MEC didn't fight to have it as a mainline aircraft; instead they said "lets give the little thing to COMAIR"

Hense they set the contracting out of jets and jobs into motion. They set the standard for which all the other Legacy airlines followed.

I don't know if this is fact, but the rumor was that Delta management asked the MEC if they wanted the RJ's at mainline nd the MEC said no. Is this true, I don't think anyone will ever know for sure.

 

[Nindiri]

I don't know all the exact dates involved, so Delta guys can correct me if I'm wrong, but I assume the contract in place at the time of the RJ introduction did not restrict turbojet aircraft, just seat numbers. Even if they could have foreseen what was coming, it would have required expending negotiating capital to restrict an aircraft that wasn't even ordered yet. Hindsight is 20/20 but it seems hard to blame the Delta guys now for not accurately predicting the future. Of course, I could be wrong about the contract timeline vs jet orders.

 

[regionaltard]

...... it seems hard to blame the Delta guys now for not accurately predicting the future. Of course, I could be wrong about the contract timeline vs jet orders.

They didn't need to predict the future. They just needed to heed the lessons contained in the history of their union.

ALPA apologists can say "who knew?" until the cows come home, but that doesn't change the fact that the concept of Airline Pilots as second-class citizens was unheard of until the DALPA rocket scientists decided that flying small jets was beneath their dignity.

 

[Nindiri]

When did they say small jets were beneath their dignity? As far as I know, Delta contracted with Comair for their first RJ's without giving mainline pilots any choice in the matter.

 

[regionaltard]

When did they say small jets were beneath their dignity? As far as I know, Delta contracted with Comair for their first RJ's without giving mainline pilots any choice in the matter.

It's hard to believe given the skill with which they've recently marginalized themselves, but ALPA had more than enough horsepower back in the day to sieze control of the small jet flying had they so desired. In a classic bit of irony, those jobs didn't become desirable to mainline pilots until they belonged to someone else. They also had the horsepower to correct the virtual C-scale they claimed was responsible for mainline jobs being replaced by poorly paid RJ pilots. We all know how that one turned out. Now we've got jet Captains working for less in real dollars than some FA's were making 25 years ago. Gotta love progress, huh?

 

[Nindiri]

How was DALPA supposed to force Delta not to contract RJ service through one of it's regional partners? It doesn't matter how much horsepower ALPA had if the contract in place at the time of Comair's introduction of RJ's permitted it.