Any "Latest & Greatest" about Delta?
05-06-2010, 10:44 AM
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I wish. I think we'll actually pay a billion dollars to merge with Alaska and let them continue the LAX stuff. We would be better off to let AMR pay a couple billion for AK then dismantle them than for us to do it. I would love to see 320 slots in SEA and LAX and just have us grow internally to feed the left coast stuff to Asia. I know if we buy them it solves alot of the overcapacity issues, but I would rather hire 1500 new guys to cover the flying out west than integrate 1500 guys who work for Alaska.
05-06-2010, 10:58 AM
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Rocky,
I hear we are going to buy ASA and Comair for three billion, then order twelve billion dollars worth of jets... then sell ASA for $425 million and write down Comair to nothing because we outsourced our outsourcing. Then we'll "invest" another $220 million or so on MidWest which will keep AirTran in business, write that off to zero and then give it one of our RJ vendors to compete against us .... oh, wait.
I constantly wonder why we don't focus like a laser on delivering a safe, friendly, comfortable flight to passengers while charging a fair price which provides a reasonable profit on the service provided.
All the rest of the billions we flush down the commode in our effort to be anti competitive could be avoided (as only Southwest seems to have discovered). How many 737's could we have bought with the $25 Billion our combined airlines spent on DCI? Somehow if we had focused on our own operation Alaska would not be the issue.
I hear we are going to buy ASA and Comair for three billion, then order twelve billion dollars worth of jets... then sell ASA for $425 million and write down Comair to nothing because we outsourced our outsourcing. Then we'll "invest" another $220 million or so on MidWest which will keep AirTran in business, write that off to zero and then give it one of our RJ vendors to compete against us .... oh, wait.
I constantly wonder why we don't focus like a laser on delivering a safe, friendly, comfortable flight to passengers while charging a fair price which provides a reasonable profit on the service provided.
All the rest of the billions we flush down the commode in our effort to be anti competitive could be avoided (as only Southwest seems to have discovered). How many 737's could we have bought with the $25 Billion our combined airlines spent on DCI? Somehow if we had focused on our own operation Alaska would not be the issue.
05-06-2010, 11:17 AM
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Bar... great great post.
We ought to hang that in the crewroom.
We ought to hang that in the crewroom.
05-06-2010, 11:43 AM
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05-06-2010, 11:46 AM
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Is it just me or does DAL suck at meeting aircraft at gates? I'm talking gate agents and/or groundcrew. Yesterday - 9 minutes waiting for a ground crew at LAX! We were on time within +/- 3 minutes and the alley was deserted, ie. not busy. This wouldn't be so bad if it didn't happen so often. 
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05-06-2010, 11:48 AM
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05-06-2010, 11:54 AM
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Well Buzz..........it's DTW. That's about all I can say. I watched a 757-300 with a medical emergency(paramedics sitting at the gate) sit short of the gate in DTW waiting for rampers. It was pretty funny to see the CA push the thrust way up and come barreling into the gate at what looked like 15+ kts. I mean he was booking. That ramper started waving his arms and backing to the wall. I thought he was going to fall backwards. I hope the CA went down to the CPO's and let them know what happened. I mean the ambulance's where sitting right there at the gate so they knew what was going on.
05-06-2010, 11:55 AM
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05-06-2010, 11:55 AM
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I think in this instance, LaHood and the hapless DOJ are operating on behalf of SWA inside a government that is decidedly and proudly "boot on the throad" anti-business.
I think HND access is a lost cause. But I think we win a court battle on the slot swap and I think we'll have a lot of friends in our corner because if we lose, then guess what happens to CAL/UAL's EWR hub on their next move? Or AMR/JB swap? I mean what % of flights out of EWR belong to CAL and compare that to what we're asking for in LGA and LCC in DCA?
I think HND access is a lost cause. But I think we win a court battle on the slot swap and I think we'll have a lot of friends in our corner because if we lose, then guess what happens to CAL/UAL's EWR hub on their next move? Or AMR/JB swap? I mean what % of flights out of EWR belong to CAL and compare that to what we're asking for in LGA and LCC in DCA?
I realize DOJ (not DOT) reviews mergers, so the case about ownership of slots isn't completely related (they can acknowledge CAL owns their "slots", but state the new United still "owns" too many).
Nonetheless, this is all about fighting off the more important enemy, and not allowing the continual reshuffling of the deck to favor the LCC's.
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