Any "Latest & Greatest" about Delta?
03-11-2013, 08:30 AM
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03-11-2013, 09:06 AM
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I hope that's looked in to. Leaving people with plenty of seats just to bang out a prescious D-0 is asinine. Those are your people. They deal with tens or hundreds of thousands of your customers for decades. Snubbing them when they want to grab a sample of the product they are responsibile for dishing out is one of the most short sighted negative ROI policy manual types of things we can do. Best case an entire day of their vacation ruined.
Now, if that flight went out *exactly* at max weight, which just so happened to be with all the revs and zero non revs, then fine, but we all know the odds of that are pretty slim. This really needs to be looked in to.
Now, if that flight went out *exactly* at max weight, which just so happened to be with all the revs and zero non revs, then fine, but we all know the odds of that are pretty slim. This really needs to be looked in to.
03-11-2013, 09:07 AM
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03-11-2013, 09:11 AM
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A lot of times, there is more cargo in weight than the plane can take. Once all the revenue passengers are on, they load the cargo up to the max aircraft weight for the flight. It happens more than you realize on long haul flights. There is zero chance of getting on as a non-rev when this happens.
03-11-2013, 09:16 AM
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Nice to see Delta is finally getting mods done so that the A319/320 fleet can do a cross bleed start with the parking brake off. And I never thought I'd see the day, but the A319/320 fleet beat out the 737 fleet and now has the highest % of SE taxi ops. 
03-11-2013, 09:25 AM
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03-11-2013, 09:32 AM
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03-11-2013, 09:39 AM
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You can't poo-poo SD's statement about hiring and then call that clearly. Choose one because whatever you do logically applies to both.
03-11-2013, 09:43 AM
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This is a example of how wrong the forum gets things. The bid that just closed in nov replaced those ER pilots in fact it replaced almost every single one. Around 94 awards were made. Add in the additional awards now and we may have added seats. The award is still available on delta net. The aug bid replaced many of the 747 captains who retired. The 330 was not back filled because of the lie flat mods.
03-11-2013, 09:48 AM
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With regards to shrinking any farther I can tell you from In Command a couple of weeks ago, Ed Bastian stated that Delta is planning on hiring 8,000 pilots in the next 10 years. Obviously some of this is for expected attrition and the rest is for expected growth. Even Wall Street doesn't expect us to continue the capacity constraint we've shown for the last several years. At some point if we don't grow, it will negatively affect our stock price.
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