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11-07-2019, 02:14 PM
#861
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Easy. Keep age 65 retirement, even if allowed to fly til 67. Insert a pilot paid for week long physical at pilot's expense (toughest in the world) with MRI's, radioactive dye stress tests and a massive cognitive battery of tests that last days. If, after all that, they prove they are superman/woman then fine they are eligibile for rehire at the bottom of the list. Easy peasy.
11-08-2019, 03:08 AM
#862
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Over 300 bids awarded this year on A330 or larger equipment for Captains and another bid planned to be mostly widebodies in 8 weeks. If you count the 7ER category the numbers are far greater.
There is also the small matter of Delta hiring well over 5000 pilots since 2014. That’s more pilots than all but a handful of airlines in the world have in total. I suspect not a single airline in the world is close to that total hiring! Let’s not even add in the fact that starting in January we are taking delivery of widebodies at a rate far greater than anytime in my career.
I guess your right. Things are horrid here.
There is also the small matter of Delta hiring well over 5000 pilots since 2014. That’s more pilots than all but a handful of airlines in the world have in total. I suspect not a single airline in the world is close to that total hiring! Let’s not even add in the fact that starting in January we are taking delivery of widebodies at a rate far greater than anytime in my career.
I guess your right. Things are horrid here.
11-08-2019, 03:31 AM
#863
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Over 300 bids awarded this year on A330 or larger equipment for Captains and another bid planned to be mostly widebodies in 8 weeks. If you count the 7ER category the numbers are far greater.
There is also the small matter of Delta hiring well over 5000 pilots since 2014. That’s more pilots than all but a handful of airlines in the world have in total. I suspect not a single airline in the world is close to that total hiring! Let’s not even add in the fact that starting in January we are taking delivery of widebodies at a rate far greater than anytime in my career.
I guess your right. Things are horrid here.
There is also the small matter of Delta hiring well over 5000 pilots since 2014. That’s more pilots than all but a handful of airlines in the world have in total. I suspect not a single airline in the world is close to that total hiring! Let’s not even add in the fact that starting in January we are taking delivery of widebodies at a rate far greater than anytime in my career.
I guess your right. Things are horrid here.
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11-08-2019, 03:47 AM
#864
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When (and if) the 7ER actually stops doing intl trips, I will agree with you. Until then, it remains a partially Intl fleet despite its partially domestic use and lower pay rate.
11-08-2019, 05:58 AM
#865
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I made a comment on my disappointment with the narrow body AE and the lack of wide body slots. That comment does not need ratios, mathematics, graphs or anything else, it's just a comment. This is a forum isn't it?
Some people who have no life and live on this forum will question you if you just said "hello".
Members can respond all they want but I don't feel the need to add fuel to the fire...
11-08-2019, 06:09 AM
#866
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11-08-2019, 06:29 AM
#867
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"Called me out".
I made a comment on my disappointment with the narrow body AE and the lack of wide body slots. That comment does not need ratios, mathematics, graphs or anything else, it's just a comment. This is a forum isn't it?
Some people who have no life and live on this forum will question you if you just said "hello".
Members can respond all they want but I don't feel the need to add fuel to the fire...
I made a comment on my disappointment with the narrow body AE and the lack of wide body slots. That comment does not need ratios, mathematics, graphs or anything else, it's just a comment. This is a forum isn't it?
Some people who have no life and live on this forum will question you if you just said "hello".
Members can respond all they want but I don't feel the need to add fuel to the fire...
Incoming spears in 3....2...1....
11-08-2019, 06:31 AM
#868
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11-08-2019, 06:44 AM
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In case anybody missed it, this is a transcript of Paul Jacobson giving an overview to investors of our capital spending strategy with regards to growing international.
"We also launched a series of buybacks, the most recent being a 5 billion dollar buyback program which we expect to complete in mid 2020. After we did that we had money to invest to ultimately strengthen those competitive advantages. We built out the most formidable set of domestic hubs in the business and have ultimately used that as a launching point for an international strategy that is far more capital efficient then anything we've seen before. Through our alliance network and joint ventures, which are unique in the industry,what we're able to do is really broaden that network internationally and globally with a much more effective return on invested capital formula than it would be for us to buy widebody airplanes and go out and grow that organically. And you see that in investments in Virgin Atlantic, you see that investments in Aeromexico, with our most recent investment we made with Korean, as well as the announcement that is pending regulatory approval of a new partnership and a 20% interest in LATAM in South & Latin America. Building out that global network, creating feed through that basis of what we've been able to create."
"We also launched a series of buybacks, the most recent being a 5 billion dollar buyback program which we expect to complete in mid 2020. After we did that we had money to invest to ultimately strengthen those competitive advantages. We built out the most formidable set of domestic hubs in the business and have ultimately used that as a launching point for an international strategy that is far more capital efficient then anything we've seen before. Through our alliance network and joint ventures, which are unique in the industry,what we're able to do is really broaden that network internationally and globally with a much more effective return on invested capital formula than it would be for us to buy widebody airplanes and go out and grow that organically. And you see that in investments in Virgin Atlantic, you see that investments in Aeromexico, with our most recent investment we made with Korean, as well as the announcement that is pending regulatory approval of a new partnership and a 20% interest in LATAM in South & Latin America. Building out that global network, creating feed through that basis of what we've been able to create."
11-08-2019, 06:55 AM
#870
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Imposing massively more difficult physicals at any age isn't "discrimination". You could also at the very least say after 65 FO only just like after 60 was FE only. Numerous ways to keep a 2 year windfall out of the hands of a few at the expense of all.
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