ATCsaidDoWhat

Back to the original question about survivability.

We'll see as Lee Moak dismantles the Delta regional's over the next year or so with management and ALPA's help.

The sad, yet funny part is that while they are in the process of doing the dismantling, John Sluys, one of Praters sleaze merchants is out west telling the Horizon pilots that he can guarantee them a DAL flow through if they join ALPA.

Yeah...Moak is gonna guarantee a Horizon F/O a slot on the DAL list...

NO disrespect intended to ANY Horizon (or any other) guy out there...but anyone who believes this one needs to look around at what Moak and company did to MidEx and the deal they cut with Prater without telling the NWA guys.

So can the regionals survive? If they restructure the model to operate like SW and do point to point in the second and third tier cities. Any service to feed a legacy should come at a well compensated cost from the legacy.

The real issue is if the legacies can survive without the feed from the smaller cities served by the regionals. Given their current models, they won't be able to. So to cut costs, look for the legacies to farm out their international ops like UAL selling out to Aer Lingus. They'll shrink their international ops crews and just have domestic crews.

"Takin' it Back" Who knew it meant taking the industry back to the size it was in the 60's and 70's?

Like the Guiness commercial........

"BRILLIANT!!!!"

Justdoinmyjob

So according to you, the legacies will farm out the international flying and concentrate on the domestic, yet others are saying that the legacies are going to farm out the domestic and concentrate on the international. If nothing else, it's an original theory.

JMO, but the reason that UAL did the deal with Aer Lingus is that the management there doesn't want to run an airline. If you are going to compete with the new Delta internationally, you are going to have to set up your game. Tilton and crew just aren't up to it.