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Old 07-19-2011 | 05:28 AM
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Originally Posted by Bucking Bar
Another big loss on "outsourced" flying, although this is own own subsidiary, so the losses are all ours.Now, lets see how much the Airport Board flips the property to the TSA for.

New on the HLN Channel, "flip this Airline Headquarters."

But this should be viewed for what it is, an ABSOLUTE STRATEGIC FAILURE by Delta management. They paid $2,500,000,000.00 for Comair, took a $600,000,000 strike, then got mad about that and decided to outsource their own subsidiary's work, destroying the value of their own asset. The real cost of this mismanagement is over 10 billion when the cost of the airplanes are included. WHERE IS THE OUTRAGE?

How different would our contract be if we had $10 billion sitting in the bank?

For you senior guys that think "scope does not matter" what about the idiotic things our management does to take advantage of what we allow? Our airline works harder at trying to figure out how not to fly, than it does running a good operation. The result is the loss of billions.
My opinion on this:

Like CPS and and Mesaba, DAL is shedding assets, not for a profit, but to get them off of their books. They are not worried about making money on these items, they are only worried about clearing them off the books. They are really cleaning house wrt to debt on the books. Pay attention to this.

The RFP is significant in my opinion, but there is something else going on. They are being very aggressive in dumping anything they can.