Originally Posted by
horrido27
Hate to say this about my competition... but it seems to be a pretty smart move~
If (in a few years from now) Delta is able to save 100-200 million a year versus the competition during the next down cycle, that will be huge!
There does come a point where you need to start thinking outside of the box.. and it seems as if Delta is doing just that.
Just hope that the Pilots can also see that, and can get their fair share of the pie~
Always
Motch
I hope you are right. I heard one of the big guys talking about this and the logic is definitely compelling. Delta is the largest private purchaser of petroleum products in the world, so they ought to be able to drive the market somewhat rather than be driven by the market. Before, we had people with no particular training buying fuel all over the place. Now, we have professionally trained purchaser's working with a centrally managed fuel plan under a VP for fuel. The refinery is just the most visible part of the fuel plan. I sure hope it all works.