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Originally Posted by
forgot to bid
Is it a charter utilization issue? You can take 3 or 4 out and still operate the schedule?
Delta also will cancel its flights between Tokyo-Narita and Hong Kong and Nagoya to Manila as the 747-400s will be retired.
So, am I wrong, or is this what happened?
1.) For months, they have been waiting on planning/marketing to come up with final "numbers" so as to put out an AE to staff the airline for 2015.
2.) They finally get the projected "numbers" and release an AE on July 15th, based on that projection.
3.) On July 30th, they release the results of the AE and announce that they are retiring four 747-400's by the end of the year and do not fill the 8 captain positions they posted on the 15th.
4.) On July 31st (today) they release a memo explaining that they are retiring the 747's because "in the coming months" they are reducing capacity in the Atlantic, which will free up 777's and 767's to redeploy to the Pacific.
So, they've been waiting for months for "the plan," they get "the plan,"
but then they change "the plan" within two weeks?
If that's what happened, you would think that they would take a little more time to make such a big decision. Especially, when it took them so long to come up with the original plan, in the first place.
