Originally Posted by
dr dre
The A220 is another kettle of fish, the 717s and their crew are now within the group so that would be the natural location for their replacements. However those aircraft/crew aren’t covered by something like the Integration Award so that isn’t a necessity.
Looking at the A220-300 it certainly has the range and capacity to be a lower density 737 replacement in part, possibly that could come under the IA too, maybe that’s why SH could be a possibility?
The problem with giving it to mainline is what do they then do with the 200 NJS pilots when the 717 is retired. They’ve already spent millions relocating 30+% of them out of Perth, Darwin and Cairns do they really want to pay redundancies?