smitty145

Like Icy hot? Kinda cold right now and will feel good when the heat kicks in?

Superpilot92

hopefully it heats back up on good info and not bad, i'm a bit burned out on the bad news and constant pilot induced bad news

acl65pilot

Not that I want to start anything, but there is only so much bad news that can come out from here going forward. If you take the time and read the 8-K DAL is now telling investors what they have been telling us for some time. Pricing power is coming back. That is good guys, because it means that as soon as they can charge X for a seat, and those seats fill up they will need to add more seats.

Now granted we are still looking at a -8% YOY on 2008 so we will have a little ways to go to see that, but looking at their 3Q and 4Q 2009 forecasts that are now public we have seen for the 3Q a yield increase from 20%+ decrease to 11-14%. That is a good step in the correct direction. They are looking at a break even margin. That means no loss per say. Those are really good indicators.
I liked what I read today. We are not out of the woods yet, but at least it is getting brighter.

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johnso29

Things are swinging to the better, & that's good news for all of us. The water has stopped rising, it appears it may be even be starting to drop. Let's hope we beat the Company's and investor's expectations.

johnso29

Hey guys,

Can we cover the loss of the DC9-30/40's with some MD90's & increased utilization of 757's? I guess we could, it just seems hard to believe that the DC9-30/40's will be gone by 2011. That would make the DC9 fleet a very small # of pilots.

acl65pilot

I think that we will seats to cover the seats we will lose when the 9 retires. They may not be direct replacements but they will be seats attached to jobs and paychecks.

johnso29

Can you expand a little, or clarify? Your statement is a bit confusing to me.

tsquare

Well I am happy to hear that...

hnldave

what are the contractual pay raise percentages for 2010, 2011, and 2012? Thanks.