Originally Posted by
acl65pilot
Jv's are good, but lets realize that AF has the money and the benefit of the "Import-Export" bank. They are buying the big metal. Look at the order books of our Skyteam partners and then compare them to ours.
For anyone that flies in to CDG it becomes quickly apparent that they fly the big metal and we fly more block of smaller metal.
JVs are not universally good. The AF/KLM is perhaps the best of the bunch.
Our smaller metal means more Delta pilots, that's a good thing across the Atlantic.
I'd like to see the new LOA for VAustralia. My fear is the ratio is already beyond the 50%-50% split in ASMs so that can't be good. In addition Alska does our feed in LAX so
few Delta pilot feed jobs on this side of the Pacific, while VAustralia (formerly known as Virgin Blue) pilots get to fly Delta pax around Australia.
The big one coming is VAtlantic and I can't see how to spin "the upside" to the pilot group, this will have to be very creative (something like "West coast access to LHR")
Cheers
George