Cargo.

I don't know any numbers about Delta cargo. But I have experience with Delta Dash. When I was running a corporate operation I had tires go low on my boss' jet on the eve of a $56,000 charter. As is typical, jets only break on holidays and weekends and this was no different.

We got the ball rolling early and had two tires put on a plane from FLL-ATL on Delta Dash. A courier brought them to us and then two mechanics charged me a small fortune for 25 minutes of work. Next morning and hours before sunrise we were on our way to New York and then TNCM.

That counter-to-counter on Delta was the only option and not just because we were in ATL. Had we been in SDF the same day option from Delta Dash was it. Or I'm sure it would've been. Normally everything shipped FedEx but we couldn't wait for overnight.

So we paid for it, or the maintenance program did, and it was not cheap but it was worth every dime because looking back.

And there was a life lesson in all of it, if you run a plane commercially, and if the airplane has tire pressure gauges installed on the assembly, rip them off. When a tire goes 5% down off 160 psi it's a new tire and 10% down is both tires. Let's just say I've seen tires fluctuate that much sitting in the hangar. But one of ours was at 20% so they were goners.

Now all of that brings me to this. There may have been a name dropping LCA at a very popular airline who took it upon himself about two or so years ago to delay a flight out of Europe for 1:30 or more, as I recall, because the NOTAC was not delivered 10 minutes prior. It arrived 5 minutes prior. Just 5. It was ready to go though and a photocopy of the exact form had been made and sitting in the cockpit the entire time, but there was a point to be made, and almost 2 hours was wasted removing the hazmat. I can't imagine the $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ his point cost the company and the passengers on that plane.