Any "Latest & Greatest" about Delta?
06-29-2009, 01:53 AM
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Capn, are you moving to memphis by choice or were you displaced? I thought you loved Detroit?
06-29-2009, 02:43 AM
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UAL won't die. Neither will LCC. This is how cabotage will come into fruition IMO. UAL is from BHO's backyard. In addition, their major hubs are in D.C. and SFO among others. You have Pelosi, Feinstein and the rest of the lot who travel them and have many constituents who are employed by them. The last thing they will do is let them die. What will most likely happen is a Chrysler type scenario. Lufthansa will agree to buy the assets of UAL, keep the hubs open and the government will do a supervised bankruptcy. In the end, they may come out ahead.
Whatever happens, I think cabotage is around the corner (5 years at the most). There are to many jobs and cities that would be devastated by a liquidation to allow a major to simply disappear. While good perhaps for the surviving carriers, I highly doubt the powers that control this country will allow this to occur. Between the scope battle on RJs and an AF takeover, we certainly have some major league threats to consider over the next few years.
Whatever happens, I think cabotage is around the corner (5 years at the most). There are to many jobs and cities that would be devastated by a liquidation to allow a major to simply disappear. While good perhaps for the surviving carriers, I highly doubt the powers that control this country will allow this to occur. Between the scope battle on RJs and an AF takeover, we certainly have some major league threats to consider over the next few years.
I say that because instead of pilots having to negotiate with inept, out-of-touch Airline managers, we will have to negotiate with even more inept, and further out-of-touch politicians. I feel as though the line between ALPA National and the Politics of Washington would be further blurred and overstepped in this hypothetical scenario.
The scariest thing about the current economic crisis in America is that the basic rules or survival and success in the business-economics of our soceity have been so perversely manipulated that it has created so much uncertainty. Failing companies run by incompetent, selfish managers need to be reorganized and restaffed as opposed to bailed out by the taxpayers.
My three biggest fears are that:
1.) The government begins to bailout the airline industry while overseeing/managing the reorganization process.
2.) This whole United Airlines and Aer Lingus debacle begins to see even the slightest signs of fruition.
3.) Carnies, you know circus folk.
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06-29-2009, 03:06 AM
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If I wanted to creep people out I would change my photo to this, and change my name to Mullen'sNephew.
Furthermore I would talk about how great the new terminal buildings up in BOS are and how I think that was a smart investment on Delta's behalf.
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06-29-2009, 06:10 AM
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06-29-2009, 06:32 AM
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Anyone have any intel on the AE/Displacement Bid? When is going to be? Will we be bidding 2-3 new 777's and a couple of 737-700's?
06-29-2009, 06:54 AM
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06-29-2009, 07:59 AM
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This intel is about a week old and has more than likely been superceded. YMMV
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