Any "Latest & Greatest" about Delta?
10-05-2010, 04:49 PM
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The most noteworthy jump was in flights across the Pacific, with traffic up 21.6 percent to 2.01 billion revenue passenger miles. Those Asia flights were full, too, with load factor rising 6.5 percentage points to 87.9 percent.......
......Those Pacific Loads increasing is very good news.
10-05-2010, 04:50 PM
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he he he he okay, so let's all sing along with Johnny Horton NORTH TO ALASKA! Go north, the rush is on...
Now, what about those RJ's?
10-05-2010, 04:54 PM
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10-05-2010, 05:03 PM
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Something young contortionists evidently appreciate...
10-05-2010, 05:17 PM
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If AA's supposed Wed int'l route additions are mostly from JFK will we respond in kind or just add more Asia flights where the $ really is?
10-06-2010, 04:52 AM
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FORT WORTH, Texas, Oct. 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- American Airlines today announced that it is sending recall notices to 545 flight attendants and 250 pilots. Several factors contributed to the company's ability to recall, primarily its efforts to capitalize on new international flying and business opportunities with British Airways and Iberia, continuing to strengthen its cornerstone hubs, and preparing for it's pending alliance with Japan Airlines.
10-06-2010, 05:11 AM
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We will see if SkyTeam decides to put heavy lift on the DAL certificate or to put the biggest jets on other carriers in the SkyTeam.
Pros if the flying (777,744,etc) comes here: Big jets at the highest pay.
Cons: Lots of lifting capacity per crew which will equate to less pilots jobs overall. It would be Large WB jobs but as the AF/KLM deal states it is a formula used to compute the equality of lift, not block hrs. If they opt for DAL to do smaller point to point flying it will mean more pilot jobs but on smaller jets than the 777,744 and 380.
One 380 equates to about three 767 worth of lift.
Pros if the flying (777,744,etc) comes here: Big jets at the highest pay.
Cons: Lots of lifting capacity per crew which will equate to less pilots jobs overall. It would be Large WB jobs but as the AF/KLM deal states it is a formula used to compute the equality of lift, not block hrs. If they opt for DAL to do smaller point to point flying it will mean more pilot jobs but on smaller jets than the 777,744 and 380.
One 380 equates to about three 767 worth of lift.
10-06-2010, 05:52 AM
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We will see if SkyTeam decides to put heavy lift on the DAL certificate or to put the biggest jets on other carriers in the SkyTeam.
Pros if the flying (777,744,etc) comes here: Big jets at the highest pay.
Cons: Lots of lifting capacity per crew which will equate to less pilots jobs overall. It would be Large WB jobs but as the AF/KLM deal states it is a formula used to compute the equality of lift, not block hrs. If they opt for DAL to do smaller point to point flying it will mean more pilot jobs but on smaller jets than the 777,744 and 380.
One 380 equates to about three 767 worth of lift.
Pros if the flying (777,744,etc) comes here: Big jets at the highest pay.
Cons: Lots of lifting capacity per crew which will equate to less pilots jobs overall. It would be Large WB jobs but as the AF/KLM deal states it is a formula used to compute the equality of lift, not block hrs. If they opt for DAL to do smaller point to point flying it will mean more pilot jobs but on smaller jets than the 777,744 and 380.
One 380 equates to about three 767 worth of lift.
Congrats again!
10-06-2010, 06:27 AM
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I love how they say a load factor of %82 is "flat".
There's a reason for that...anything north of %80 is essentially full. Delete out all the late night MX repos that are sold as live flights, and the other oddball departure times/weekend flights no one really wants go on, and that load factor is essentially %100 at the times real people want to travel.
There's less of that going accross the Pacific, but %87 is probably essentially "full" also.
From this data, it seems that we're filling every seat that we add back into the system, and they need more metal if they want to carry more people. We'd better call Alaska so they can order some more airplanes.
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There's a reason for that...anything north of %80 is essentially full. Delete out all the late night MX repos that are sold as live flights, and the other oddball departure times/weekend flights no one really wants go on, and that load factor is essentially %100 at the times real people want to travel.
There's less of that going accross the Pacific, but %87 is probably essentially "full" also.
From this data, it seems that we're filling every seat that we add back into the system, and they need more metal if they want to carry more people. We'd better call Alaska so they can order some more airplanes.
Nu
Marketing wanted more lift. They were looking at around 6 percent increase for next summer. RA is trimming that back to 2 to 3 percent on fears Wallstreet will not like the higher growth number and fears of starting a capacity war. The good news is that the remaining 757's and 767's in the desert which includes 5 or 6 767-300's are coming out. Those older 300's with the small engines were planned to eventually become razor blades so this is a change.
10-06-2010, 06:41 AM
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Marketing wanted more lift. They were looking at around 6 percent increase for next summer. RA is trimming that back to 2 to 3 percent on fears Wallstreet will not like the higher growth number and fears of starting a capacity war. The good news is that the remaining 757's and 767's in the desert which includes 5 or 6 767-300's are coming out. Those older 300's with the small engines were planned to eventually become razor blades so this is a change.
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