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.
Look at the order books for our small jet outsourced partners too.. and our absolutely atrocious domestic product thanks to them. We put out all this stuff to them on running a nice clean operation, but they don't care... Delta isn't their company.
Yet we continue to award them up to the max limit of jumbo RJ's. It will be our downfall if ALPA doesn't force the issue on this next contract and reel in domestic outsourcing. Forget payraises except for the senior insulated types if that doesn't happen.