Originally Posted by
Model Citezen
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.
Very good post and history did repeat itself with the merger with Delta. What scares me about this JAL deal is the active involvement of their politicians and government money. Who knows what the constraints are? Who knows what the regulatory environment is? When they told American and Delta to keep their money we were placed on notice that they were calling the shots and we could keep our input to ourselves. They will TAKE what they want.
In the mean time, our national political leadership continues to be inept as it has been, well since Bush Sr. was in office.
Originally Posted by
Denny Crane
The best thing we can do now is contact our Reps before this special MEC meeting and give them our opinions and feedback. Who knows, maybe this meeting is not about this topic but it never hurts to provide your opinon and feedback.
Denny
Denny - you are right, but our Reps have not been told anything yet and by the time they are told, it will over, all but for the shouting.
Feedback implies there was a signal to initiate the loop. In our case, they give us nothing and ridicule speculation. So, we'll get nothing ... and like it!
Man Caddyshack can provide puns for any web board discussion, can't it?