Originally Posted by
acl65pilot
FWIW, those that know more about this than you or I are stating that "SOME" of the Beach Destinations would be moved to the JAL operation and we would takeover some of their ULH stuff. I was told that not all of the beach stuff would be gone.
Devil is in the details. We will just have to wait to see what the actual deal is. Until then it is just an educated guess by matching up the data points.
ACL,
The "devil" is in the BLOCK HOURS flown AND THE QUALITY of those hours. DAL has a great deal of debt that they have to pay down, all the while paying for new terminals and a Billion dollar customer service redo. If you have a debt laden company that cannot afford to purchase new aircraft, you can do a JV with a company that will provide lift, feed and you reap 85% of the benefits with no addition capital purchases of additional aircraft. NWA pilots have seen this movie before. It was the near bankrupcy in 1992/93. We say the birth of the NWA/KLM code share. We have seen refurbished DC9's and used DC10's to provide lift for a company that could not afford to refleet the airline. NWA got lucky that fuel was so cheap for so long. Airline managers are historically followers, not leaders. Look to history to see how they are going to play the game.