Any "Latest & Greatest" about Delta?
05-31-2013, 12:15 PM
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Because pretty soon 321's may be parking there. 321's flying DAL passengers who bought tickets on delta.com. The question is....... who will be flying those 321's, Delta pilots or the new code share/JV partner of the week?
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05-31-2013, 12:29 PM
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Fo I'm flying with is on GS#5.
05-31-2013, 12:38 PM
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Of course, that was one man's opinion at that particular time. They could do anything.
05-31-2013, 12:41 PM
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FWIW. Overheard conversation in Atl crew lounge between 2 fo's so it must be true
"Per 320 fleet capt. The first batch of 320s got life extension and are staying, greater than 50% chance of 321s, and 10 330s coming all growth, and hiring starting no later than late 2013". And the pool of pilots (due to the new 1500 hr rule) only enough for about 5 years of hiring at all the majors. Don't shoot the messenger.
"Per 320 fleet capt. The first batch of 320s got life extension and are staying, greater than 50% chance of 321s, and 10 330s coming all growth, and hiring starting no later than late 2013". And the pool of pilots (due to the new 1500 hr rule) only enough for about 5 years of hiring at all the majors. Don't shoot the messenger.
05-31-2013, 12:52 PM
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05-31-2013, 12:57 PM
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Atlantic or America? If it is Atlantic, I hope it comes sooner rather than later so that we can get productivity balances based on their current flying... BEFORE Mr Anderson helps the other Richard see that flying 3 to 4 747s/day to MCO probably isn't making all that much money.... 50% of their seats across the Atlantic is a lot of potential flying for DAL pilots... a LOT.
05-31-2013, 01:10 PM
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Well here's our first hint on the a e from the weekly update.
Ae will focus on 7er, 320, and m88.
Ae will focus on 7er, 320, and m88.
05-31-2013, 01:12 PM
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And 4 in MSP, 2 in CVG and 2 in NYC. Of all of those (including FTB's above), 17 are 2nd GS of bid period and 2 are 3rd GS. Captains have 4 out of base/instructor GS's (CVG/MSP) and 2 IA's (those in MSP). This while we are still staffed at or close to what we had before the last AE chopped MSP88B by 30 and -A by 20. Maybe someone realized they were wrong and that explains the new AE?
Prediction: MD's out of 717 categories BACK into 88's!!
You THOUGHT you'd get the summer off ...
Prediction: MD's out of 717 categories BACK into 88's!!
You THOUGHT you'd get the summer off ...
But it's an AE on a Monday, usually you fire people on Friday, so Monday?
05-31-2013, 01:16 PM
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05-31-2013, 01:18 PM
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Sailingfun: They are in a bind. They should have hired the 150 guys they wanted in the first quarter. When virtually all discretionary funding was cut for the first quarter and most for the rest of the year they were not able to hire. The result is they are going to have to do a lot more training then if they just hired a few guys to fund the 717 copilot seats. You saw some of that result in the last bid when they were not able to fill all the positions because it created to much training.
The powers to be decided that making a first quarter profit and a record profit for the year are more important. I know it has to do with wallstreet and interest rates ect.. but I don't know the specifics. As a example of the cuts all winglet installations are also canceled for the remainder of this year.
The powers to be decided that making a first quarter profit and a record profit for the year are more important. I know it has to do with wallstreet and interest rates ect.. but I don't know the specifics. As a example of the cuts all winglet installations are also canceled for the remainder of this year.
1) desire to show a profit so as to be considered investment grade,
2) desire to show a profit prior to a merger,
3) desire to show a profit
4) collect pants
5) ?
6) profit
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