gloopy

And VA. All the above with hundreds of growth narrowbodies on firm order, optioned and in letters of intent. There is nowhere for those planes to go unless the equivalent comes out of existing flying. Its time to compete and win instead of shrink to profitability which never works.

sailingfun

How do you get everyone through security for the meetings. Wives could not go at all and all pilots would have to be in uniform. No thanks.

johnso29

Well, you have A320 experience so what's stopping you from going there?

sailingfun

Its mostly open skies to Europe. Why would we pay USAIR for flying we can have for free. USAIR has virtually no access at any slot controlled airports. If we want more 330's Airbus will have them sitting in Atlanta in in 90 days.

firstmob

So this is the old 767 for 330 rumor doing a Lazarus?

acl65pilot

What is funny is, I have not seen a wife at a meeting since the JPWA. They only seem to show up when there is major money on the table.

That said, the conference rooms outside of security in ATL would work just fine.

acl65pilot

Same one. I figured that if they were going to bring up part of the rumor, they should show all of the rumor.

Mem9guy

You don't have to be in uniform to go through security...

Elvis90

Delta making $4 million a day on expired-tax fare hike

By Ben Mutzabaugh, USA TODAY

Delta Air Lines says its decision to offset expired FAA taxes by raising fares has increased revenue by between $4 million and $5 million per day, The Wall Street Journal reports. The newspaper adds: "Delta said it has no plans to change its ticket prices."

"The tax is a tax on passengers," Glen Hauenstein, Delta's Executive Vice President for Network Planning, Revenue Management and Marketing, is quoted as saying by the Journal. "What the industry has done is simply to maintain prices at market-clearing levels."

That revelation came out today during a call to discuss Delta's second-quarter earnings results. The Associated Press reports the carrier's "second-quarter net income fell by 58% compared to a year ago. It earned $198 million, or 23 cents per share, compared with $467 million, or 55 cents a year ago. Fuel costs rose 36% to $2.66 billion in the latest quarter. Revenue rose 12% to $9.15 billion as Delta raised fares to try to pay the increased fuel costs."

Delta's results fell short of Wall Street expectations once special items were excluded.

DeadHead

Some what off topic, but can an out-of-base white slip pull a RES pilot off of a trip once that trip has been assigned to said RES pilot? (Day prior)