Any "Latest & Greatest" about Delta?
04-15-2010, 04:14 AM
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What you "heard" isn't correct. If so, the same restrictions would have been apparent on the MD-11, L1011, and 777's. They were all flight planned at their appropriate speeds for ambient weight/conditions/fuel and crew costs.
Is the 744 going out at .79 as well?
Pilots give DT a bunch of crap all the time, but I remind you to compare how the IT integration has gone compared to our peers. No USAirways merger meltdown. JetBlue had trouble changing to Sabre. How about a few props for the folks that are actually making that portion of the business work, so we can kevetch about dual releases and single engine taxi...
Is the 744 going out at .79 as well?
Pilots give DT a bunch of crap all the time, but I remind you to compare how the IT integration has gone compared to our peers. No USAirways merger meltdown. JetBlue had trouble changing to Sabre. How about a few props for the folks that are actually making that portion of the business work, so we can kevetch about dual releases and single engine taxi...
One thing that has been stated on here that many do not seem to grasp is DAL IT and infrastructure, accounting, reservations, part stores programs etc are linked to SAP.
A little background on SAP. Generally speaking, once the SAP template is designed for a company or a BU it is in effect matured. My wives company converted to SAP a little over a year ago, and let me tell you, SAP and the templates that it uses do not just get changed. If DAL were to go down that avenue, it would literally have to relicense the SAP software, and start anew with rebuilding the templates that each BU, sub BU department etc would use. It is very prohibitive. SAP is a great program, but you literally need to get it right the first time. Changing it is a pita.
That said, NWA did not run on SAP and therefore many good programs could not even be considered. Their computing functions can be added or integrated in to an existing program like FPS 2.0, PARS or AWABS, but unless DAL is willing to pay for a new SAP template run, they cannot just swap out programs.
SAP is an amazing system when it works. Start tinkering with it, and it will throw garbage at you. Problem with that is that many of the functions, crosstalk etc are done behind the sense and because of this, it is very difficult to find the problematic formula on an up and running system. It can be done, but it is time consuming. I beleive we prefer to deal with what we have, fix what we can within the existing system and slay to competition.
Overall this company has created the road map on how to do integrations.
Everything for the most part went off well below the assumed rate of failure.
04-15-2010, 04:17 AM
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The program for ship sets was announced a quarter ago. Sims are getting em then depending on how that works, the 330 and DC-9 were slated to get ship sets followed by the rest of the fleet. Time frame was about 12 months from now.
As for worldflight, slow?
04-15-2010, 04:21 AM
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The liability thing is another Red Herring. Almost every other airline had their own FAA approved manuals that were far better than the factory, which is more a minimum standard.
There is no excuse in our world for lack of standardization - I don't buy the liability, we might be checked on it nonsense - now we are checked to two standards - the schoolhouse and the way we "really" do it.
I hear the liability excuse all the time - I think it's just a weak excuse for sloppy airmanship
There is no excuse in our world for lack of standardization - I don't buy the liability, we might be checked on it nonsense - now we are checked to two standards - the schoolhouse and the way we "really" do it.
I hear the liability excuse all the time - I think it's just a weak excuse for sloppy airmanship
I don't know if you are a captain or not, but I will tell you this: When I checked out a few years back, the In Command class (knife and fork school for new captains) got a visit from Greg Riggs who was at the time the Counsel General at DAL. After his little talk, I didn't EVER want to turn off the seat belt light. It's no red herring. It's very very real, and there are lawsuits. Can you imagine the financial liability to DAL if there is ever a procedural misstep that Boeing did not sanction and resulted in injury or worse? Now since we are using BA procedures and operations manuals, it's all on them. I really liked the DAL manuals we had before the BA change.. probably like you like the NWA manuals better: things were easy to find... they were more logical.. etc etc... But the fact is that all lawyers suck and they make the rules so we all have to deal with it.. unfortunately.
04-15-2010, 04:22 AM
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They are going to improve IT as much as is possible given the constraints of SAP. From what I understand we can do a lot within the confines of this, but it takes time and needs to be done correctly the first time.
The program for ship sets was announced a quarter ago. Sims are getting em then depending on how that works, the 330 and DC-9 were slated to get ship sets followed by the rest of the fleet. Time frame was about 12 months from now.
As for worldflight, slow?
The program for ship sets was announced a quarter ago. Sims are getting em then depending on how that works, the 330 and DC-9 were slated to get ship sets followed by the rest of the fleet. Time frame was about 12 months from now.
As for worldflight, slow?
04-15-2010, 04:23 AM
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PG, After sending my Uncle Sam a check this week, I want to do whatever I can to shelter my $$. If we can get a small bump in pay but get maxed out on the 415 limits, that's a good thing. Hide the money from the taxman now but show it to him later when we are in a presumably lower tax bracket
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Of course, I could be over simplifying YMMV.
!Of course, I could be over simplifying YMMV.
04-15-2010, 04:26 AM
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Hey it is below 250K
04-15-2010, 04:27 AM
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04-15-2010, 04:27 AM
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04-15-2010, 04:29 AM
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04-15-2010, 04:40 AM
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While this is great news for us in the industry, there are a couple of points to consider.
1. Revenue during the summer of 2009 was down more than 23% compared to the summer of 2008. Revenue would have to increase 30% to return to "normal" levels. 25% is good news and is a long way back toward normal..
1. Revenue during the summer of 2009 was down more than 23% compared to the summer of 2008. Revenue would have to increase 30% to return to "normal" levels. 25% is good news and is a long way back toward normal..
2. Oil prices during the summer of 2009 averaged about $67 bbl. This summer they're projected around $90 bbl. On the good side, the fuel hedges that killed us last year are no longer around.
Delta was forecasting a very small profit prior to the recent traffic recovery. If oil prices stay reasonable and there are no external events (yeah, right), then we have a good chance of making some more coin this year. Nothing to write home about, but still far better than a loss. Earnings season begins next week. I'm real interested to see how Delta's doing on CASM after SOC, and how we stack up on operating margin. I expect that we'll see some differentiation from our full service network peers.
Delta was forecasting a very small profit prior to the recent traffic recovery. If oil prices stay reasonable and there are no external events (yeah, right), then we have a good chance of making some more coin this year. Nothing to write home about, but still far better than a loss. Earnings season begins next week. I'm real interested to see how Delta's doing on CASM after SOC, and how we stack up on operating margin. I expect that we'll see some differentiation from our full service network peers.
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