Any "Latest & Greatest" about Delta?
03-02-2011, 06:10 AM
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They are some of those things you have to look at before you go flying.....ya know the reminder that pops up when you log onto ecrew? Oh wait....I think I've found the problem. You have to fly to know the bulletins exist. 
JK FTB. I'm just a jealous, abused reserve 320 FO.
JK FTB. I'm just a jealous, abused reserve 320 FO.
No seriously, I'm like proud when I can get it to 0. But right now I can't. Believe it or not as a domestic puke pilot my landing currency is coming up. ON THE 88! Well, not before April so I'll get it in but it's all up to date.
As to EFOBs, I always get distracted by stuff, like the paper cutter. Will that actually cut paper this time? Let's go see.
03-02-2011, 06:10 AM
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Okay, are there any drunk astronauts who became/were pro athletes who also dated a supermodel, wrote a best seller and cut themselves shaving?
Buzz Aldrin comes close.
Buzz Aldrin comes close.
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03-02-2011, 06:12 AM
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I don't buy the odds of being on a plane with a drunk pilot... unless that includes non-revs
03-02-2011, 06:13 AM
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You said we are rapidly approaching the limit. What do you mean by rapidly. The core temperature of the earth is rapidly cooling.. let's start from there as a reference. Will the limit be reached in a month... a year... ten years? What is rapidly? It's not an argument, I just want to know what is viewed as a rapid closure rate. IMO... if that limit will be reached in 5 years.. that is not rapid.
Do you mean 5 years from CBAID? My understanding is we are within 10-15 airframes of hitting 255 now. 27 airframes have awarded in the last 2 months. Seems a little quicker then 5 years. I may have your reference point incorrect though.
Regardless, IMO the cap will be hit before Sec 6 & possibly before the summer. And my favorite part of the contract.....once the # of 76 seaters has been established, it will not be reduced. Bye-bye DC9's, hello large RJs.
03-02-2011, 06:18 AM
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While this is true, human nature has been to treat that gubbamint like a cash machine that never runs out. This cannot continue. The teachers have a painful lesson coming their way. It is up to them as to whether they choose to acknowledge history and learn from private industry (the irony there is palpable) or whether they choose to be an ostrich and think that the legislature will ALWAYS come through in the 11th hour and pay them. I have a cousin that just got a teaching job in Illinois.. primary education I think. She is pretty sharp, and said that she is going to plan on funding her own retirement because she realizes that the ponzi schemes are crashing down.
I have told my family members with great retirements in government service. I use the termination of the DB here. They all say it will never happen. I make the point by using our words. They start to get it, but the reality will be painful.
03-02-2011, 06:23 AM
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Do you mean 5 years from CBAID? My understanding is we are within 10-15 airframes of hitting 255 now. 27 airframes have awarded in the last 2 months. Seems a little quicker then 5 years. I may have your reference point incorrect though.
Regardless, IMO the cap will be hit before Sec 6 & possibly before the summer. And my favorite part of the contract.....once the # of 76 seaters has been established, it will not be reduced. Bye-bye DC9's, hello large RJs.
Regardless, IMO the cap will be hit before Sec 6 & possibly before the summer. And my favorite part of the contract.....once the # of 76 seaters has been established, it will not be reduced. Bye-bye DC9's, hello large RJs.
5 years was just a thin air number. I was just trying to establish what you meant by "rapidly". Nothing nefarious.
Wrt your second paragraph, DALPA has been notorious for writing contracts like that. I am looking for the limit on international code share and what determines it. It used to say that as long as our floor hours remained above X, the company could add as much as they liked (basically). If that floor was passed.. if we went below that number, there was no provision to reduce the codeshare. I found that horrifying. I was told by the ASSociation not to worry.. we never go below that number.... Seems to me that a snapshot percentage with a weighting favorable to us would be preferable, but then again, I don't have a seat at the table.
03-02-2011, 06:28 AM
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Its official. Finally.
On Deltanet:
DELTA EXPANDS MD-90 FLEET
Delta has reached an agreement with Japan Airlines to purchase nine MD-90 aircraft as it continues to expand its fleet of the cost-efficient narrowbody jets.
JAL will begin delivery of the MD-90s in January of next year, and they will be refurbished and upgraded to match Delta’s domestic fleet. The purchase will not add capacity; rather, the aircraft will be used to replace retiring DC-9s and 50-seat regional jets leaving the fleet.
Delta now has 58 MD-90s under contract, with 19 flying, 15 in modification, and 24 to be delivered. With a range of 2,400 miles, the 160-seat aircraft can be used for a variety of domestic flying.
“The MD-90 is a cost-effective aircraft that helps us more efficiently maintain our flying levels as we retire regional jets and DC-9s,” said Nat Pieper, v.p.-Fleet Strategy and Transactions. “We’ll continue to look for opportunities to acquire used MD-90s in the future.”
Since 2007, Delta has retired more than 250 smaller gauge domestic aircraft including 50-seat regional jets, Saab 340 turboprops, and all of its DC-9 30s and 40s. A portion of that capacity has been backfilled with the addition of 100 newer model MD-90s and two-class regional jets.
On Deltanet:
DELTA EXPANDS MD-90 FLEET
Delta has reached an agreement with Japan Airlines to purchase nine MD-90 aircraft as it continues to expand its fleet of the cost-efficient narrowbody jets.
JAL will begin delivery of the MD-90s in January of next year, and they will be refurbished and upgraded to match Delta’s domestic fleet. The purchase will not add capacity; rather, the aircraft will be used to replace retiring DC-9s and 50-seat regional jets leaving the fleet.
Delta now has 58 MD-90s under contract, with 19 flying, 15 in modification, and 24 to be delivered. With a range of 2,400 miles, the 160-seat aircraft can be used for a variety of domestic flying.
“The MD-90 is a cost-effective aircraft that helps us more efficiently maintain our flying levels as we retire regional jets and DC-9s,” said Nat Pieper, v.p.-Fleet Strategy and Transactions. “We’ll continue to look for opportunities to acquire used MD-90s in the future.”
Since 2007, Delta has retired more than 250 smaller gauge domestic aircraft including 50-seat regional jets, Saab 340 turboprops, and all of its DC-9 30s and 40s. A portion of that capacity has been backfilled with the addition of 100 newer model MD-90s and two-class regional jets.
03-02-2011, 06:44 AM
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Its official. Finally.
On Deltanet:
DELTA EXPANDS MD-90 FLEET
Delta has reached an agreement with Japan Airlines to purchase nine MD-90 aircraft as it continues to expand its fleet of the cost-efficient narrowbody jets.
JAL will begin delivery of the MD-90s in January of next year, and they will be refurbished and upgraded to match Delta’s domestic fleet. The purchase will not add capacity; rather, the aircraft will be used to replace retiring DC-9s and 50-seat regional jets leaving the fleet.
Delta now has 58 MD-90s under contract, with 19 flying, 15 in modification, and 24 to be delivered. With a range of 2,400 miles, the 160-seat aircraft can be used for a variety of domestic flying.
“The MD-90 is a cost-effective aircraft that helps us more efficiently maintain our flying levels as we retire regional jets and DC-9s,” said Nat Pieper, v.p.-Fleet Strategy and Transactions. “We’ll continue to look for opportunities to acquire used MD-90s in the future.”
Since 2007, Delta has retired more than 250 smaller gauge domestic aircraft including 50-seat regional jets, Saab 340 turboprops, and all of its DC-9 30s and 40s. A portion of that capacity has been backfilled with the addition of 100 newer model MD-90s and two-class regional jets.
On Deltanet:
DELTA EXPANDS MD-90 FLEET
Delta has reached an agreement with Japan Airlines to purchase nine MD-90 aircraft as it continues to expand its fleet of the cost-efficient narrowbody jets.
JAL will begin delivery of the MD-90s in January of next year, and they will be refurbished and upgraded to match Delta’s domestic fleet. The purchase will not add capacity; rather, the aircraft will be used to replace retiring DC-9s and 50-seat regional jets leaving the fleet.
Delta now has 58 MD-90s under contract, with 19 flying, 15 in modification, and 24 to be delivered. With a range of 2,400 miles, the 160-seat aircraft can be used for a variety of domestic flying.
“The MD-90 is a cost-effective aircraft that helps us more efficiently maintain our flying levels as we retire regional jets and DC-9s,” said Nat Pieper, v.p.-Fleet Strategy and Transactions. “We’ll continue to look for opportunities to acquire used MD-90s in the future.”
Since 2007, Delta has retired more than 250 smaller gauge domestic aircraft including 50-seat regional jets, Saab 340 turboprops, and all of its DC-9 30s and 40s. A portion of that capacity has been backfilled with the addition of 100 newer model MD-90s and two-class regional jets.
I wonder what the odds are having your sons becoming high school QBs, then college QBs then drafted in the NFL and then having one be the Super Bowl MVP followed by the other doing the same the next year?
Or this, what were my odds of getting a 100% on the instrument written when I was only 17? Pretty darn good! BUT THEN, what were the chances of getting a letter in the mail 3 months later saying there had been a mistake and I really only made an 84. Even better!
03-02-2011, 06:55 AM
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Read the book superfreakeconomics they are greatly increased by having a pro bowl quarterback father!
Great Book.Great news on the md-90s!
Last edited by RiddleEagle18; 03-02-2011 at 07:00 AM. Reason: got my books confused.. although blink is a great book too
03-02-2011, 06:59 AM
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I wonder if T Square has any kids named Peyton.
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