Originally Posted by EdGrimley

Delta Strikes Pilot Deal to Keep Jobs From Outsourcing to Virgin - Businessweek

"Dominguez said he has no reason to think Delta would replace its own flying with Virgin."

"The ratio of flying between the carrier and its joint venture partners has been an issue before. Delta is supposed to do 50 percent of the flying in its transatlantic partnership with Air France-KLM Group and Alitalia SpA. It likely will come up short of that goal by a March deadline, in violation of its pilots agreement, Dominguez said."

As Tsquare would say....Lulz.

Can someone explain to me this quote below:

"The pilot deal would let Virgin add eight more wide-bodies to its current 38, according to its website, after which Delta would have to maintain about three times as much international capacity as the U.K. airline", Dominguez said

How do we maintain our current percent of flying at a heavily slot controlled airport (ie no more slots for additional flights...the reason given for buying a 49% stake in Virgin) while green lighting 8 more widebodies to Virgin?