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Old 02-10-2019, 07:37 AM
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sailingfun
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Originally Posted by theUpsideDown View Post
Wow. Holy crap this is a weird conversation. DGS wasnt doing fine, thats why mainline ramp is taking it back at important airports. That's why Delta wants someone else to manage it. Those are facts. If you get bored sometime, ask senior managers why we are doing latency checks. I'll give you a hint, it's got nothing to do with pilots as weve been trying to turn it into on the boards.

Thinking about your bizarre reaction, when in fact DGS isn't objectively a good ramp, is puzzling. DGS can be a bad service service and Delta still be a good company. They're bad at managing regionals too, which is why we're the best paid, you can talk to any of the senior people that had their head out of the sand for that. Union guys can usually give you a good date by date of how we are where we are. Delta isnt bad because DGS is bad. The refinery is being offered up for sale too, which was a mistake, but if oil shot up Delta would have been well insulated. Delta is still a good company despite a couple wrong turns. You're still weird though, exemplified by your posts.

A couple months Delta the public company will have some numbers for the investors, I'm interested as always to read it. Giving an asset (dgs) to another company to manage in exchange delta gives away their ownership is a fairly simple and telling move. You can see that by the joint flowery release.
Most of your post I don’t really understand. A couple of things I do get. Latency checks are because many of the pushback times are fantasy. I commute often on our connection carriers. It’s extremely rare to see the out time reflect the actual push time. Often the difference is substantial. You can’t run a good operation without understanding where the issues are. False out times mask the issues.
The oil refinery was a serious mistake on Delta’s part. The cost of the raw product does not change that mistake. Oil can go back to 140 a barrel and the refinery will still be a mistake. In order to try and lose less money Delta has cut the refinery way back on jet fuel production to more profitable distillates. They want it gone.
DGS was not given away. Delta retains 49% ownership in the new company.
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