Originally Posted by
20Fathoms
Concur with the above. Explain to us Trip how 2500 trivial hours of trans-pacific flying has no effect on jobs? If we can’t defend this, what can we defend? You accuse the union of being one-sided in their communications and I don’t disagree, but your post to start this thread is far more one-sided than the union comms.
Just to clarify its 2500 of US-Japan flying. Trans Pacific flying declined steeply as Delta restructured almost hit the bare minimum and now is growing. USA-Korea flying has increased steeply and is well above JV minimums by over 2500 block hours. Delta has no intention of increasing USA-Japan flying above JV minimums triggered by Korean's NRT-HNL anytime in the near future. To answer your question these 2500 hours had minimal to no effect on jobs as the jobs were shifted to ICN flying or more profitable theatres.
Originally Posted by
SayMach
2500 hours of Japan-US flying is huge. You should see how much that changed the LAX and SEA 7ER bid packages. If we don’t get control of this it will be death by 1000 paper cuts.
For the 7ER the Pacific drawdown is inevitable. I believe the 7ER will be down to only SEA-KIX as the only Transpacific route very soon. If you intend to still fly Transpacific I highly recommend a change to the 330, 350 or 777. Big AE with Widebody A positions coming in Nov/Dec timeframe.
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