Any "Latest & Greatest" about Delta?
06-04-2013, 03:43 PM
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Another outstanding layover coming up.
Somebody mentioned Nashville a few pages back. Next week is the Country Music Association annual shindig in BNA. They close off the streets down around all the honkytonks on Broadway. It is a most excellent street party.
Uniform for females is mini-skirts with cowboy boots. Mighty fine eye-candy.
Somebody mentioned Nashville a few pages back. Next week is the Country Music Association annual shindig in BNA. They close off the streets down around all the honkytonks on Broadway. It is a most excellent street party.
Uniform for females is mini-skirts with cowboy boots. Mighty fine eye-candy.
06-04-2013, 03:58 PM
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If you look at the latest letter from crew planning they list the block hour reductions. It shows that the new contract has had little to no impact on staffing. The block hour reductions were higher then what they had planned. That however starts to turn around in the last quarter.
06-04-2013, 03:59 PM
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I was discussing the disappearance of the 737-200 though. 156 of them in 2000 and 0 around by the time we had 255 CRJ-700/900/E170/E175s flying around. FWIW, except for the E170s those other airplanes are according to wikipedia longer than the 732.
Three questions:
1. If regional flying YOY is decreasing, why then did we bother allowing more jumbo RJs in exchange for 717s and fewer CRJ-200s if they were going to go away anyways? We haven't gotten any 717s yet, so no new super premium regional jets are allowed, so no reason to drop 50 seaters unless they were not wanted anyways and/or we could live without them anyways, right?
2. DCI decreasing, what about jumbo RJs, did they decrease? Did they break that out?
3. Related to question 3, if for some reason they're cutting or reducing jumbo RJ use... is that a bad sign for our management team to purchase expensive new RJs and then not use them while turning around and ordering 70 more in December 2012 ? Delta orders up to 70 Bombardier regional jets | Business & Technology | The Seattle TimesI'm going to beat the jumbo and super premium jumbo RJ drum until at least C2015.
Three questions:
1. If regional flying YOY is decreasing, why then did we bother allowing more jumbo RJs in exchange for 717s and fewer CRJ-200s if they were going to go away anyways? We haven't gotten any 717s yet, so no new super premium regional jets are allowed, so no reason to drop 50 seaters unless they were not wanted anyways and/or we could live without them anyways, right?
2. DCI decreasing, what about jumbo RJs, did they decrease? Did they break that out?
3. Related to question 3, if for some reason they're cutting or reducing jumbo RJ use... is that a bad sign for our management team to purchase expensive new RJs and then not use them while turning around and ordering 70 more in December 2012 ? Delta orders up to 70 Bombardier regional jets | Business & Technology | The Seattle Times
06-04-2013, 04:04 PM
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06-04-2013, 04:10 PM
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Or maybe another source of pilots without airplanes to fly, like pinnacle (endeavor, or whatever they call this new alter ego). If we were to swap spit, I mean stock, with Alaska, I am sure the overlap would be eliminated immediately and the cancellation of other codeshares with Alaska would reduce the transfer of revenue.
06-04-2013, 04:14 PM
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06-04-2013, 04:15 PM
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Or maybe another source of pilots without airplanes to fly, like pinnacle (endeavor, or whatever they call this new alter ego). If we were to swap spit, I mean stock, with Alaska, I am sure the overlap would be eliminated immediately and the cancellation of other codeshares with Alaska would reduce the transfer of revenue.
06-04-2013, 04:24 PM
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The whole "no hiring" thing from the CR newsletter sure sounds like they've accidentally broken the code on a coming merger. Can't imagine why we'd delay hiring pilots with the retirements coming up, and staff with inefficient and costly displacements, followed by reinstatements, "We've received clarity" is more like "shut up and do what we tell you" from marketing. And despite all this, our capacity is flat, our routes are unchanged, hubs the same, it's not like there's a whole lot of crazy going on at Delta Air Lines. Make ready the boarding party!
06-04-2013, 04:26 PM
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06-04-2013, 04:38 PM
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The Japanese government wants their airline industry back and our hub is taking serious collateral damage from the systematic devaluation of the Yen.* So the fall back is Seattle.
Delta's got a problem at our non hub in Seattle. Alaska's got us by the short hairs there.
* Japan's monetary policy is a new experiment.
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