Any "Latest & Greatest" about Delta?
I have been asking this forum about this issue. DAL has no serious wb orders. Additionally, DL does not have a robust wb fleet capable of seriously competing on a global stage. As we sit today our global mobility (if you will) is supported by our robust JVs with foreign carriers. Please...please prove me wrong. If DAL came out tomorrow and announced a wb order, it would have to be huge to be considered a serious order. Any small order is essentially a replacement order for our aging fleet.
They have hinted that once we reach $10b debt things look better and we might see something.
Pinnacle doesn't have a flow, but does have a Bridge Agreement that specifically states that 12 job offers per month or 1/3 of the offers whichever is less will be offered to 9E pilots.
If you dont believe me, I can PM the Agreement to anyone that would like to read it.
If you dont believe me, I can PM the Agreement to anyone that would like to read it.
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I'm with you. From the text of these resolutions (and I was not at the meeting) this seems like nothing but whining from a bunch of very set in their ways sorts.
1. The reserve resolution was to completely eliminate all RAW and all buckets, making reserve which is currently a sort of good deal for the senior guys (depending on category, time of year, etc) even more of a good deal. I'm supposed to want the negotiators to waste valuable negotiating capital on that?
2. The 767 resolution to have a domesti-only "sub-group" in the soon combined ATL 7ER category.
There is no way the company, after having spent years slowly drawing down the domestic-only 767 categories, is going to recreate a "domestic-lite" version of the same within the 7ER category. Why would they? I flew in the domestic category for several years, and have flown in the ATL 7ER category for several as well. NO WHERE at the airline are guys more set in their ways, unwilling to embrace anything new, etc., than in the ATL senior domestic categories (think ATL 767 and the senior half of the 73N). These guys love to fly domestic and are upset that they will have to fly two TOEs (and that's it) and MIGHT be rerouted into international flying during irregular ops (the odds of that are very slim by the way).
So what. The world changes. We don't fly 727s any more and we don't have flight engineers any more. In a similar vein we soon won't have any more dedicated domestic 767 categories. So what. Do your two TOEs, nod your head when the LCA is telling you all sorts of oceanic stuff, enjoy a couple of tasty European brews or South American steaks, then ram dump it all and go right back to the domestic flying that you always liked (and that I like).
There are pros and cons both from a company and pilot standpoint to keeping separate categories, and there are pros and cons to combining them. The company has elected to go with a philosophy of combining them. Accept it and move on. I had hoped that we would be flying 757s for decades to come. But Boeing has decided not to build those airplanes any more, and the 737-900 (and maybe the A321) is the future plane for many routes the 757 currently flies that I enjoy flying. While I don't like it, I have accepted it. As I get old (er) I have accepted that if I want to be a captain at DAL and fly transcons and caribbean turns, etc, then it won't be in a 757 for much longer, much as I wish it would be.
I feel that this resolution would represent a waste of time and negotiating capital.
Fire away.
1. The reserve resolution was to completely eliminate all RAW and all buckets, making reserve which is currently a sort of good deal for the senior guys (depending on category, time of year, etc) even more of a good deal. I'm supposed to want the negotiators to waste valuable negotiating capital on that?
2. The 767 resolution to have a domesti-only "sub-group" in the soon combined ATL 7ER category.
There is no way the company, after having spent years slowly drawing down the domestic-only 767 categories, is going to recreate a "domestic-lite" version of the same within the 7ER category. Why would they? I flew in the domestic category for several years, and have flown in the ATL 7ER category for several as well. NO WHERE at the airline are guys more set in their ways, unwilling to embrace anything new, etc., than in the ATL senior domestic categories (think ATL 767 and the senior half of the 73N). These guys love to fly domestic and are upset that they will have to fly two TOEs (and that's it) and MIGHT be rerouted into international flying during irregular ops (the odds of that are very slim by the way).
So what. The world changes. We don't fly 727s any more and we don't have flight engineers any more. In a similar vein we soon won't have any more dedicated domestic 767 categories. So what. Do your two TOEs, nod your head when the LCA is telling you all sorts of oceanic stuff, enjoy a couple of tasty European brews or South American steaks, then ram dump it all and go right back to the domestic flying that you always liked (and that I like).
There are pros and cons both from a company and pilot standpoint to keeping separate categories, and there are pros and cons to combining them. The company has elected to go with a philosophy of combining them. Accept it and move on. I had hoped that we would be flying 757s for decades to come. But Boeing has decided not to build those airplanes any more, and the 737-900 (and maybe the A321) is the future plane for many routes the 757 currently flies that I enjoy flying. While I don't like it, I have accepted it. As I get old (er) I have accepted that if I want to be a captain at DAL and fly transcons and caribbean turns, etc, then it won't be in a 757 for much longer, much as I wish it would be.
I feel that this resolution would represent a waste of time and negotiating capital.
Fire away.
Talk about deflating a brotha's balloon.....
20 per month from Compass
9 per month from Mesaba
??? per month from Pinnacle
These are all before off-the-street. It should pretty much fill any classes for the first few years.
500/year = 40 per month (Don't forget Delta is shrinking).
Where do you guys see room for off-the-street hiring?
9 per month from Mesaba
??? per month from Pinnacle
These are all before off-the-street. It should pretty much fill any classes for the first few years.
500/year = 40 per month (Don't forget Delta is shrinking).
Where do you guys see room for off-the-street hiring?
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Gets Weekends Off
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SEA-CPH? Does that sound like a money maker to anyone? I have a hard time seeing that route filling up a 777/787, but what do I know? I expect we will see many more head-scratcher city pairs as EK's giant WB orders keep rolling in. They have to fly them somewhere. I see lots of money losing seats being dumped into questionable markets in our future. But, at least they have hot flight attendants.
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Compass flows are limited to 25% of the Compass senority list per year, APC says they have 439 so that would mean a max of 110 per year from Compass, which is only 5.5 months worth of Compass flows a year.
Add the Compass flows (110 per year) to the Mesaba flows (9 per month, 12 months = 108) equals 218 per year of flows.
Anything else would be off the street (unless they take more flows in some manner that I don't know about).
Add the Compass flows (110 per year) to the Mesaba flows (9 per month, 12 months = 108) equals 218 per year of flows.
Anything else would be off the street (unless they take more flows in some manner that I don't know about).
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Their order book is staggering. And there are 2 more of "them" in the same small area too, plus all of the Asian and Indian hyper growth airlines. Everyone thinks they need 1000 A380's to rule the world, especially when they are dual subsidized.
One day they will choke on their fantasy "Heros of Farnsborough" order books. Until then, they are the most serious threat to the very existance of our entire industry that we've ever seen.
One day they will choke on their fantasy "Heros of Farnsborough" order books. Until then, they are the most serious threat to the very existance of our entire industry that we've ever seen.
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Holy Smokes!! Emirates will have more spare 777's sitting around than our entire fleet. I hate to say it, but I think Delta see's JV's as the best way to compete with a monster that size.
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