FIIGMO

New mantra this month:

Better duty rig or I will hold my breath until they change it!!!

3 day trips in LAX worth 10 and 11 hours. YGTBSM

tsquare

Is that something new? I thought all the Hawa'ii flying was like that...

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Highlight --
Scott Kirby was asked about consolidation and possible merger with AMR, etc. and what lessons he learned from the attempt to buy Delta. He answered that he learned that labor was more important than he thought. He needed labor allies to make the buyout work and just having the best financial outlook for the creditors was not enough.
Can't believe he said that, but he did.

Carl Spackler

This entire thesis is based on a wrong premise t. It presumes that outsourcing equals more profits. That's simply not true. Delta wastes money doing what they're doing with the regionals. The aircraft have higher CASM's than anything we have at mainline, but management does it anyway. Some say it's because they want the ability to whipsaw us so bad, they're willing to lose money to do it. I don't know if that's true, but it doesn't matter. SWA doesn't outsource because it's not profitable to do so. That's why their scope won't change.





Carl

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tsquare

Time will tell. I still think it a waste of time to negotiate for something that is dying anyway. SWA doesn't outsource because their hands are tied by that clause. They wanted to do international, but the clause said no... good for SWAPA, bad for SWA.... at that time. We will see if it can survive or if it forces a big time structural change at SWA. My guess is that management doesn't want to change the airline by adding another airframe (as witnessed by the soon to be demise of the 717 on the property) so they will have to downsize or undertake another merger of some sort. Since their advantage in making money is rapidly evaporating, (and their reluctance to charge bag fees.. another face saving problem for Ichan) something is gonna have to give. Stagnation over at SWA is the only thing that makes sense.. that guy that you think such a genius by leaving DAL is gonna be throwing gear on a fluff for a long long time... if he survives... I can't wait to see their next contract. I'll bethca they don't raise ANY bars...

I thought it was against the TOS to post porn.

Jack Bauer

Someone better get Sailingfun on the horn. He thinks these mergers go through with the flick of managements wrist....no employee involvement required. I beg to differ and so does our alcoholic CEO friend. He might be a drunk but he has learned from the school of hard knocks. Not as dumb or arrogant as he once was.

Jack Bauer

Cheers! Got it tuned in.

It just ended lol.

OK got United up now.

Carl Spackler

Couldn't disagree more. Other airlines fly over HALF of Delta's domestic brand. Delta pilots fly less than half of Delta's domestic brand. That's the:




WRT SWAPA's international scope, it allows for code share and JV's...just like ours. SWAPA's scope would be no worse than what we have now for international operations. But it would be a huge win for our domestic operations...both for customer service and DALPA seniority list growth.

Carl

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duplicate. sorry