Thread: DAL to reduce by 4-5% by 4th Qtr

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Boomer , 09-19-2011 06:41 PM
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Quote: Pilot costs are a small portion of total costs.
True, but that doesn't prevent Delta from coming to Comair pilots and saying,

"See what you made us do? Now find a way to take $17 million out of the next contract or we'll have no choice but to do the same with the planes you have left"


Quote: As I stated a few pages ago, the real costs are the costs of ownership and carrying the added debt on your balance sheet.
But Delta still winds up owning the planes. They just move them from Comair to Freedom to Comair to Pinnacle to Mesaba to ASA (The NxxxLR 900s) or from Comair to ASA to SKW to GoJetssss (The NxxxCA 700s).

All that moving around trying to save a buck and the hulls are still on Delta's debt sheet.
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