Originally Posted by Scoop

At XJ, the opposite was true in the past. Most senior CAs were making announcements "Mesaba Airlines or Mesaba Aviation Flight #," until a memo was sent out stating that the term "Delta Connection" be used and drop the mention of Mesaba. Nonetheless, even today there are many CAs who refer to XJ flights during PA announcements as "Mesaba Flight."

At any case, you are not fooling anybody anyway. The moment passengers step inside small DCI RJs or ERJs, they know that they are not on Delta Aircraft. Even the smallest Delta mainline jets like DC9s or MD80s are huge compared to CRJ200s, CRJ900s or ERJ 145 or 175s. Not to mention big differences in uniforms of flight crews. You have to be a blind not to notice it.

However, your concern for legal liability is justified, especially for non wholly owned DCIs like SkyWest/ASA or Pinnacle. If they run into accidents flying aircraft in Delta paint and advertised and sold as Delta flight (as they are being done right now as we speak), they will be deemed as representing Delta Airlines and as such will most likely be held legally liable as co-defendants in any future legal actions. Wholly owned regionals are subsidiaries of Delta so if they are brought into a lawsuit, you can be assured Delta will be on the top list of defendants.

Originally Posted by acl65pilot

Locusts? Where?

Originally Posted by acl65pilot

Locusts? Where?

Originally Posted by DAL330drvr

I know there was some resistance to the idea of having 4 members and I'm sure there was resistance to two candidates who were recently voted out of lec office. I like the final result, they are all relatively junior and young (except 1). No age discrimination here, but the longer career they have left at DAL, the better we will all do!

Originally Posted by Bucking Bar

Maybe he meant "Low Costs"

Originally Posted by NuGuy

Heyas DAL,

Yup. I'm pretty un-pleasable for the most part, but this make up, and the folks on it made me pretty happy.

Not fun to watch it unfold, or so I'm told.

Nu

Originally Posted by forgot to bid

I went ahead and shaved so I can no longer send plagues upon the DOT, DC or anyone and I cannot part the seas nor walk on them nor fly without a plane. I'm truly humbled at this point.



Glad you have something to jump for joy over Nu.



I'm not sure what the hell is going on in that picture though or what that thing in the t-shirt is, but for now, it can be happy Nu.

Originally Posted by forgot to bid

Have you ever flown with someone that reads the forums? It starts out like "heard any rumors" and then we notice all of the rumors we know are the same. "where did you hear all of that?" And then I say the forums and then I end up doing a carpet dance trying to protect my annonymity.

Oh by the way Buzz, give em' hell.

Originally Posted by n9810f

Many of you will like hearing that Delta is dropping Midwest from the SkyMiles program in June. I will assume that includes the code-share, however that is a separate agreement not tied to the frequent flier program.

Clearly strategy at play here. There has been talk from the Executive level that Delta is not happy with Republic when it comes to Frontier and the DEN hub and how it competes directly with SLC.

MKE was always a strategic market for NW. A huge collection of WorldPerks members (something like first or second largest congregation of members outside the hubs). NW even blew all the money on the YX investment with TPC. Delta now appears ready to just surrender the MKE market and rely on the hubs for MKE.

Originally Posted by NuGuy

I agree about the number of Worldperks Members. They are valued customers, and they supported NWA for many, many, MANY years as a mid-western company (and if you don't know what this means to people there, you never lived in the mid-west...and I ain't talking about Ohio)

However, with Republic, AirTran and SWA duking it out to the death in a three-way cage match, I think that getting into the middle of it is stupid.

Best thing for Delta to do at this point is hunker down, make inroads where they can, peel off some high-rev pax where they can, and otherwise wait for the dust to settle.

Nu