Originally Posted by
acl65pilot
Call ti my opinion if you wish, but most people tell the pilots they can have one or the other.
I do agree though more pay and tighter scope are both essential. In fact, they go hand in hand.
I know DAL's fleet plan, and the reality is that the 90 purchase is a Band Aid. DAL should have been refleeting all along. CH11 aside, we should be constantly be buying new and old metal. Two 777's and Two 73N's last year does not cut it. Look at UCAL, we are quickly squandering our advantage we gave the company with our quick and concise merger. We need to buy jets that compete on the world market. 32 777/744's are not enough to compete with the UCAL airline.
Wrt to narrowbody replacement. Even buying more 320's or 73N's four years ago would have made a ton of sense. Last ones in last ones out in the fleet renewal plan. We are now running in to a of jets that need to be replaced over the next 15 years.
I'm beginning to worry a lot about the way we are being managed. Perhaps its for a dark cloud picture for negotiations, or who knows...
But, the proactive and aggressive management team that I saw with the merger and the international expansion is now doing the exact opposite... just sitting there with their fingers up their noses and pulling out of cities. We just pulled down ATL-TLV for the winter recently.... really??? You cannot and will never shrink intro profitability. This combined with the continued massive level of outsourcing (and the only new jets going to outsourced companies) and I think it may be time for some management renewal as well.