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The SWA pay scales are unsustainable if the economy drives ticket prices down again. They'll have a hard time raising the bar.
The regional guys, myself included, bring with us a healthy fear of bad decision making and awful management. We find a sustainable business model is much more pleasant to work under.
This was my first DAL contract. It was better than the previous. The new normal is a better contract every amendable date. Your normal is your fault. Not mine.
The regional guys, myself included, bring with us a healthy fear of bad decision making and awful management. We find a sustainable business model is much more pleasant to work under.
This was my first DAL contract. It was better than the previous. The new normal is a better contract every amendable date. Your normal is your fault. Not mine.
So if we fly the jets, and increase the cost on them 25% per block hour, then any money you may have been making on an RJ just got blown out the tail pipe. So if Delta pays Pinnacle $750 per hour to operate a CRJ-900 but makes $800 in revenue from said product, where exactly do you think that $50 goes? Hint. Not to Pinnacle.
Are you suggesting that Delta could operate the aircraft more profitably than Pinnacle or GoJets?
Are you suggesting that Delta could operate the aircraft more profitably than Pinnacle or GoJets?
I already know that you can't write, but apparently you can't read either because I said nothing of being more profitable. I said that if Hulas can make money, you can too.
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And there's less of them. Sunset provisions would be good but with the impending regional beat down well in the works, would you rather have 4/8/3/3 or RJs? You know as well I do that the company wouldn't have done both. That's why absorption will work better than sunsets.
And there's less of them. Sunset provisions would be good but with the impending regional beat down well in the works, would you rather have 4/8/3/3 or RJs? You know as well I do that the company wouldn't have done both. That's why absorption will work better than sunsets.
Who are we absorbing? Sunset provisions are absolutely crucial.
Maybe we should have held out for better.
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Now to be fair in less then 2 years our 777 rate will be 270 and at 3% a year by the time AA is at 310 we will be at 295. Now I am not advocating 3% a year in the next contract I am only use that to make the example that in 5 years the gap is not as big as you are showing.
I am one of those guys that you will not agree with, I think the wage structure has been reset thanks to 9-11 and the recession. I am not happy but I believe that is the new reality. I relate it to housing prices. At one time my house was 100k more valuable then it is now. I can hold out for the that value if I try and sell it but I am not going to be successful. I guess you can call it defeatist attitude maybe it is, but my belief is we need to work off each contract and improve it from the last one.
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Only you are magically increasing your costs 25% to draw this picture. Nobody ever proposed bringing arrjays to DAL @ 25% increase. Even if you increase the crew pay - which again nobody mentioned - the offset from overhead "synergies" in management/soc/office rendundancies would offset a significant portion of your self-imposed cost increase.
I already know that you can't write, but apparently you can't read either because I said nothing of being more profitable. I said that if Hulas can make money, so can you.
Hulas can make money because he pays his people what his revenue dictates.
So your saying though that Delta could pay DAL crew rates and benefits and have them dispatched and maintained by DAL employees, and we'd break even on cost? Is that your assertion?
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So 348 to 125ish? 70 - 223 is an unreal number. Because its negative.
We'll absorb them - a la the PNCL deal. Either that or we can put in an RFP bid for them like everyone else does I guess.
Give it 5 years. You'll see.
Then again, is the goal of dismantling a 600 airplane fleet in 3 years a reasonable goal? Would our PWA have to subsidize the breach of contract penalties? Rome may have been outsourced in the stroke of a pen, but building it takes a while.
Give it 5 years. You'll see.
Then again, is the goal of dismantling a 600 airplane fleet in 3 years a reasonable goal? Would our PWA have to subsidize the breach of contract penalties? Rome may have been outsourced in the stroke of a pen, but building it takes a while.
B) We're not dismantling a 600 airplane fleet. We're removing 250 airplanes that EB said "customers don’t particularly prefer" and "the cost of continuing to keep the 50-seat RJs in the fleet but even more importantly the upcoming fairly significant maintenance costs that we’re going to be experiencing which will run into the hundreds of millions of dollars on that fleet if we had decided to retain that aircraft."
We are then adding back 70 jumbo RJs. So we're reducing 600 to 450, a 25% reduction. We are decreasing 50 seaters from 57% of the outsourced fleet to 27% and increasing the 50+ seat RJs from 42% of the outsourced fleet to 72%.
Put it this way, we helped them get rid of the outsourced airplanes they don't like for outsourced airplanes they love.
More importantly, we are increasing the 50+ seat jets by 70 more than the previous PWA allowed.
C) Rome was never outsourced.
Ok so how much more does Delta pay their staff than a Regional? 25% is probably a good guess. Sure there's gonna be some redundancy savings, but what is there to operating an RJ besides labor and gas? Delta already pays for the gas, so the lowest labor cost is gonna drive the vendor selection.
Hulas can make money because he pays his people what his revenue dictates.
So your saying though that Delta could pay DAL crew rates and benefits and have them dispatched and maintained by DAL employees, and we'd break even on cost? Is that your assertion?
Hulas can make money because he pays his people what his revenue dictates.
So your saying though that Delta could pay DAL crew rates and benefits and have them dispatched and maintained by DAL employees, and we'd break even on cost? Is that your assertion?
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