Any "Latest & Greatest" about Delta?
03-20-2014, 06:22 PM
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Certainly.
However, if that number is in the ballpark, it will greatly impede our ability to negotiate a contract anywhere near "restoration." Or much more than "cost neutral," for that matter.
If it's just a matter of convincing a small number of "non-automatic" folks to accept a mediocre TA, we'll see more of these mediocre TAs (and more full-bore sales jobs from the company/DALPA sharpshooting a very small demographic). It's the path of least resistance.
However, if that number is in the ballpark, it will greatly impede our ability to negotiate a contract anywhere near "restoration." Or much more than "cost neutral," for that matter.
If it's just a matter of convincing a small number of "non-automatic" folks to accept a mediocre TA, we'll see more of these mediocre TAs (and more full-bore sales jobs from the company/DALPA sharpshooting a very small demographic). It's the path of least resistance.
03-20-2014, 06:36 PM
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AvWeek states Delta will have a widebody RFP out by the end of next month and a order by year end. Hope they are right.
03-20-2014, 07:16 PM
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03-20-2014, 07:22 PM
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03-20-2014, 07:27 PM
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03-20-2014, 07:53 PM
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RA was quoted as saying "Airbus needs to re-engine the 330. We need a small wide body." He also mentioned interest in the C-series with GTF's to fit between the 717 and the 737-800. Could be a great year if it all pans out.
03-20-2014, 08:07 PM
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03-20-2014, 08:59 PM
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All you really need is the actual reg and res lines awarded April 2012 and actual reg and res lines awarded April 2014. That's the best comparison.
03-20-2014, 09:15 PM
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Just a thought but a C-Series sitting between the 717 and 738, that's a crowded field. Currently, you have a 117 MD-88s at 149 seats, 10 737-700s at 124, 57 A319s at 126, 69 A320s at 150, throw the 65 MD-90s in for good measure at 160 seats.
I guess the C-Series 300 seats at 130 seats? Hmmm.
Any word on the MD-88 and NextGen? Because my bet, knowing Continental and now Delta, is they're getting an RFP for an MD-88 replacement and replacing MD-88s with 130 seaters and I doubt it'd make it to a 1:1 replacement, probably less. A319 vs CS300, who wants to make a deal?
/Capacity discipline.
If the CS300 came in and the 88s exited stage left, we're going to start to have an even more random fleet then we do now.
03-20-2014, 09:18 PM
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