Originally Posted by
skywatch
Problem is, a better analogy would be "why pay my son $20 per week when I could pay the neighbor $10 a week to do the same job..." That is a better representation of the issue Delta has...that being said, I agree that you should keep as much in house as you can, because there are advantages to that beyond simple cost per block hour, much like there are long term advantages to paying your own son, even if it cheaper to pay the neighbor in the short term.
But the point of my post is to point out that your analogy is inaccurate.
How is his conclusion inaccurate? I heard of some of the bidding Comair bid on to fly for Delta and they were very competitive. Delta still farmed the flying out. When Freddy boy gave the flying to Comair when Mesa was screwing up and told them to hire 300+ pilots for that R.A. shut that down quick and gave it to Mesaba, whose cost are the same if not comparable to Comair.
Inaccurate? Sir I respectfully disagree with your conclusion of these facts. from the time this merger was annouced and a reporter mentioned the Comair name, you could see R.A.'s strong dislike for Comair. I think the slow slide to oblivion has begun for this airline, and unless the stockholders get R(eally) A(nal) out of Delta's board room, this new Delta will not last 10 years.
Still trying to figure out why the hell you would put someone who ran Northworst into the ground in charge of an airline that was doing relatively well before that fool came along.