Any "Latest & Greatest" about Delta?
05-26-2013, 01:55 PM
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Hmmm. Three weeks with company guys/LCAs. Blue jeans-check. Running shoes-check. Golf shirts-check. Flying stories abound. I wonder if you can tune into Fox News in Singapore?
05-26-2013, 01:56 PM
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And only a lie-flat seat for rest. :-(
05-26-2013, 02:54 PM
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Let me start by saying I normally don't post rumors or feed into them but this one is gaining traction. I came across a post on airlines.net a minute ago about a possible order but I blew it off, airliners.net is usually incredibly inaccurate. However, 
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RUMOR: DL To Order 30 A321 + 10 A330 — Civil Aviation Forum | Airliners.net
... RUMOR: DL To Order 30 A321 + 10 A330 — Civil Aviation Forum | Airliners.net
Let's see.... 330s, not super premium. A 321s... smaller than 757s. Annnnnnnnnnnd.. since bigger pays more.... Any logic majors out there? This is not much of a reach to be believable however.
05-26-2013, 02:56 PM
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05-26-2013, 02:59 PM
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Dumb question, but why would they leave a 3-man crew in SIN for 3 weeks? Heck, we wouldn't do that and we're paying biz class back and forth.
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05-26-2013, 03:02 PM
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05-26-2013, 03:12 PM
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Day 1: Maintenance Crew Arrives
Day 3: Wrong part ordered
Day 5: Don't have the right tools ... who knew we would need a Phillips Head screwdriver?
Day 7: Part arrives, wrong dash number
Day 10: Waiting on paperwork from France, but all if Aerospatial is on some sort of mandatory holiday
Day 13: Got paperwork, but mechanics too sunburned to work. One now taking Penicillian and talking about being in love.
Day 15: Airplane fixed but everyone forgot about cure time and the sealant all spewed everywhere when pressurization test done. Must disassemble, clean and re install repair
... and it continues ... . Crew told "airplane will be ready in a couple hours .. you stay at the airport" for several weeks / until they time out / threaten to quit at an outstation.
05-26-2013, 03:20 PM
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^ the funniest satire is the kind that is over the top yet doesn't exagerate. At all.
05-26-2013, 03:45 PM
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Just a guess, but I suspect it has to do with maintenance. At a former airline an airplane broke in a fun location could take FOREVER to fix ...
Day 1: Maintenance Crew Arrives
Day 3: Wrong part ordered
Day 5: Don't have the right tools ... who knew we would need a Phillips Head screwdriver?
Day 7: Part arrives, wrong dash number
Day 10: Waiting on paperwork from France, but all if Aerospatial is on some sort of mandatory holiday
Day 13: Got paperwork, but mechanics too sunburned to work. One now taking Penicillian and talking about being in love.
Day 15: Airplane fixed but everyone forgot about cure time and the sealant all spewed everywhere when pressurization test done. Must disassemble, clean and re install repair
... and it continues ... . Crew told "airplane will be ready in a couple hours .. you stay at the airport" for several weeks / until they time out / threaten to quit at an outstation.
Day 1: Maintenance Crew Arrives
Day 3: Wrong part ordered
Day 5: Don't have the right tools ... who knew we would need a Phillips Head screwdriver?
Day 7: Part arrives, wrong dash number
Day 10: Waiting on paperwork from France, but all if Aerospatial is on some sort of mandatory holiday
Day 13: Got paperwork, but mechanics too sunburned to work. One now taking Penicillian and talking about being in love.
Day 15: Airplane fixed but everyone forgot about cure time and the sealant all spewed everywhere when pressurization test done. Must disassemble, clean and re install repair
... and it continues ... . Crew told "airplane will be ready in a couple hours .. you stay at the airport" for several weeks / until they time out / threaten to quit at an outstation.
Go look at the rotation, they flew down to NRT on May 3, then on to SIN on May 4...and sat there until a couple days ago, when they flew 3:45 one day, SIN-SIN, (test flight most likely) and flew 11:15 another day, also SIN-SIN. I'm wondering if that was a "turn back", or a very long test flight?
I know they did a lot of the lie flat seat mods in SIN, I wonder if that's also where they are ripping out the rest facility?
I wonder how many wives had an all expenses paid, 3 week trip to Singapore.
05-26-2013, 04:00 PM
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