A350-1000 and other Fleet News
04-17-2023, 11:01 AM
#521
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Excellent point. Money and QOL is so good on the 73NA right now bidding WB A enternal reserve would be a pay/qol cut for clout/SJS. Pulled all my WB A bids
04-17-2023, 11:58 AM
#522
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Are you kidding? Telling people you are an International Wide Body Captain at Delta Air Lines is worth at least.....I dunno......100K? 150K? I kid obviously, but there will be a line out the door for those spots despite that. GS trains come and go.
04-17-2023, 02:37 PM
#523
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It doesn't matter what their margins are. Only that they are dumping premium supply with no sign of slowing down. Their fares on premium lay flat products are frequently a fraction of what ours are. We ignore them and their endless growth at our peril and one day we will look back on these days where it would have been easy to crush them when we have to deal with a much stronger competitor.
Focusing on quarterly numbers while a competitor grows on their terms in our premium markets will prove to be a bigger mistake than paying bilions for regionals to close them, bowing down to another regional for 300M of our own money to prevent liquidation and selling off hedges right before they spiked in value.
Focusing on quarterly numbers while a competitor grows on their terms in our premium markets will prove to be a bigger mistake than paying bilions for regionals to close them, bowing down to another regional for 300M of our own money to prevent liquidation and selling off hedges right before they spiked in value.
04-18-2023, 12:14 PM
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04-18-2023, 02:48 PM
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My daughter joined me on a recent LHR trip. The Heathrow express is 15 minutes with no stops to Paddington station, about 1 mile from our Hotel. We walked from Paddington to the Hotel and still beat the crew. Oh yeah not crowded with luggage racks for your bags.
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04-18-2023, 03:07 PM
#526
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Concur. Used it once with just the wife then went back with all 5 of us. Too easy.
04-19-2023, 07:24 AM
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The recent UAL route announcement highlights a major issue with us. We do not have a fleet of range capable aircraft to meet competion or take advanatage of new opportunities. UAL will fly to more destinations in Australia and New Zealland than we do to all of Asia. We have decided to put all of our eggs in the ICN basket and let another airline using their aircraft and CREWS to fly OUR passengers to their final destination.Look back we have cancelled more Asian destinations then we presently fly into this is unacceptable and must change if we truly want to compete in the Asain market.
04-19-2023, 08:11 AM
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The recent UAL route announcement highlights a major issue with us. We do not have a fleet of range capable aircraft to meet competion or take advanatage of new opportunities. UAL will fly to more destinations in Australia and New Zealland than we do to all of Asia. We have decided to put all of our eggs in the ICN basket and let another airline using their aircraft and CREWS to fly OUR passengers to their final destination.Look back we have cancelled more Asian destinations then we presently fly into this is unacceptable and must change if we truly want to compete in the Asain market.
04-19-2023, 09:54 AM
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The recent UAL route announcement highlights a major issue with us. We do not have a fleet of range capable aircraft to meet competion or take advanatage of new opportunities. UAL will fly to more destinations in Australia and New Zealland than we do to all of Asia. We have decided to put all of our eggs in the ICN basket and let another airline using their aircraft and CREWS to fly OUR passengers to their final destination.Look back we have cancelled more Asian destinations then we presently fly into this is unacceptable and must change if we truly want to compete in the Asain market.
04-19-2023, 10:48 AM
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You're falsely inferring that having a larger WB fleet is the reason they are slightly behind us. Yet their international yields avg 24%, compared to 19% domestic. Its the more profitable arm of their business. For comparison, our domestic & intl yield are both about 21%. Our net passenger revenues were almost equal, we just made 1.2 B more in domestic, they made 1B more in international.
Revenue from flying passengers in 1Q
The real Delta differnece has been our "other" revenue streams, like AMEX, MRO, etc. Without this revenue, we wouldn't have made a profit soley flying passengers.
Revenue from flying passengers in 1Q
- UA = 10.2B
- DL = 10.4B
The real Delta differnece has been our "other" revenue streams, like AMEX, MRO, etc. Without this revenue, we wouldn't have made a profit soley flying passengers.
