Originally Posted by
PilotJ3
Maybe because of Global Scope and have to replace the 763.
Im usually a half empty glass kind of a person. But Delta doesn’t do “big airplane announcements”, like United. So, the airplanes will come, eventually. We already have the MRO for the 350 engines, which I think is what they really wanted a couple of years ago. Underpromise (no NH until Q3 2026), over deliver (hiring ramping back after summer for whatever 2026 plans).
Delta is currently tightening our pilot group, I think they believe they can make us fly more with Gs than growing the airline as they should. I also believe next contract negotiations is going to be interesting, as I also think they didn’t knew what they were signing in this PWA.
Also remember RG 2019 summer…they will definitely try again and maybe 2026 will be the year of money.
There’s at minimum ~240 wide-body aircraft on order between many of DL’s JV’s, Skyteam partner's, and carriers DL has ownership stake in that qualify towards global scope. Not including their current wide-body fleets.
The Notepad memo from ALPA on Global Scope insinuated essentially 1:1 WB growth via block hours from these partners. There is some language that dictates exactly which WB flying counts as global scope, but it sounds like a vast majority of it qualifies. The only form of agreed upon remediation is additional wide-body pilot jobs if Delta fails to meet the quarterly audits by ALPA.
https://d2r1lrrqctgamh.cloudfront.ne...A/NN-23-03.pdf
IMO, this points towards a handful of more WB orders in the next 1-3 years or one very big WB order (least likely). But, managements current strategy is disheartening to say the least when trying to forecast growth/network. Though, I can’t see them blatantly disregarding this Scope when remediation steps are clearly spelled out.