Any "Latest & Greatest" about Delta?
08-15-2012, 08:08 AM
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08-15-2012, 08:08 AM
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08-15-2012, 08:12 AM
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All 88 are growth aircraft to the mainline. If the economy collapses and the company plans a large decrease in overall capacity then we will see fewer pilots jobs. Regardless of the economy however we will have 88 more airframes at the mainline. How anyone can believe that is a bad thing utterly eludes me. The key to the 717's is they are not a increase in capacity but a shift in flying from DCI to the mainline. That is far more viable long term flying then planned future fleet increases given the economic situation. No matter how the economy plays out the 717's are a huge boost to the mainline.
I guess for some the glass is half full, for others its half empty, for many APC posters its cracking and leaking.
I guess for some the glass is half full, for others its half empty, for many APC posters its cracking and leaking.
We'll get em next time boys!
08-15-2012, 08:24 AM
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08-15-2012, 08:30 AM
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08-15-2012, 08:36 AM
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When we need to rebuild the SMRA "war chest" then all of a sudden the "ALPA is taking more of my money" complaining will start up and be really annoying.
08-15-2012, 08:37 AM
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All 88 are growth aircraft to the mainline. If the economy collapses and the company plans a large decrease in overall capacity then we will see fewer pilots jobs. Regardless of the economy however we will have 88 more airframes at the mainline. How anyone can believe that is a bad thing utterly eludes me. The key to the 717's is they are not a increase in capacity but a shift in flying from DCI to the mainline. That is far more viable long term flying then planned future fleet increases given the economic situation. No matter how the economy plays out the 717's are a huge boost to the mainline.
I guess for some the glass is half full, for others its half empty, for many APC posters its cracking and leaking.
I guess for some the glass is half full, for others its half empty, for many APC posters its cracking and leaking.
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fwiw, I ran across this again from the same email from 2 months ago: if the early out under performs with say around 100 pilots taking it (and all things being equal) then hiring in spring 2014. if 250-300 pilots take it then we should be able to hire in summer or fall 2013.
Of course, that's assuming things don't drastically change in the direction and size of the company through a merger.
08-15-2012, 08:45 AM
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Well we are starting to see the bottom WRT to increasing PRASM through capacity reduction. IOW, shrinking to profitability isn't working anymore. Taking that into consideration it will be interesting to see how RA and the gang respond to the LCCs refusal to join in on the latest fare increases.
Will DL keep culling capacity to fund all of that, or will DL eventually respond by competiting ruthlessly even if it means a reduction in Q over Q paper numbers for a while?
08-15-2012, 08:48 AM
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Damned if you do, damned if you don't. Good grief. Why anybody does ALPA work is beyond me, but I thank them for it.
08-15-2012, 08:53 AM
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Or the many hundreds of domestic narrowbody capacity groth aircraft coming on line in the coming years from the so called LCC's and start ups. JB alone is planning on a stunning 50% increase in their already dominant BOS presence and DL's answer is to allow UAL into terminal A to make room for it because the alternative would be to actually use the gates to full capacity and we can't do that. Then there's the dual subsidized foreign EGO airlines that will dump super premium widebodies into just about every large US city simply because they over ordered and have no place to put them.
Will DL keep culling capacity to fund all of that, or will DL eventually respond by competiting ruthlessly even if it means a reduction in Q over Q paper numbers for a while?
Will DL keep culling capacity to fund all of that, or will DL eventually respond by competiting ruthlessly even if it means a reduction in Q over Q paper numbers for a while?
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