Originally Posted by
NERD
Sailing,
The memo says specifically says the transatlantic JV will grow by 3%, not as much as originally planned. Nowhere does it say that Delta will grow by 3%. We are shifting aircraft from the Atlantic to the pacific. On the surface the imbalance looks to get worse. What then?
To be honest, with regards to this AE, none of this talk about Atlantic and Pacific flying make any sense to me.
These are issues they had to know about months ago. The AE came out two weeks ago, and all of a sudden they are parking big aircraft.
To me, it seems more likely that the initial results of this AE indicated that they were going to have trouble staffing the new airplanes they have coming. Look at the awards. The bottom 737 captain is almost at 8900. That's closer in seniority to a new hire than he is to us in the middle of the list. (It would have gone more junior if they had awarded the 8 747 captain spots they had announced.)
How many 737-900's are left to be delivered? How many 717's are still on the way? Plus, how many 321's & 330's do we have coming?
From where I sit, it seems to me that the parking of the 747's is more of a result of a staffing problem than anything else.
It's the first thing they need to do to stop people from bidding off the 330.
Prediction: Next on the accelerated chopping block -- 757's.