Originally Posted by
Denny Crane
Well, on a different note, I went to a Fltops management meeting and here are some of the highlights:
- Do not anticipate getting any 787’s for 18 to 24 months
- some DC 9 positions available too. Keeping some of the -40’s until 1st Quarter of 2011- I don’t know how many
- 40 crew schedulers total of which 28 are in their first year
- Shipset jepps for 330 in July and 7ER in Oct.
- 2% capacity growth this year. Close to where we were pre-recession
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- Current debt of 16.4Billion. Expect to see that at 15 Billion by end of this year!
Thanks for the notes.
Glad to hear the 787 is being mentioned. I think that is the first positive note about the airplane since we merged. I know he said "none for 18-24 months" but that like in Dumb and Dumber... "so you're saying there's a chance!?"
Interesting that they are keeping more DC-9s that they thought. A great airplane to fly around at low fuel costs, matches Airtran well.
More than half the schedulers are new? Explains a lot... but jeeze, get that place organized.
Shipsets... can't be soon enough on the 7ER. I'm not complaining, it's my back that's complaining. Carrying around the US, South America, Africa, Europe, Middle East and Asia is a lot of charts. Plus all the enroute charts. And some low charts.
Capacity growth is good. Means the yields are improving I imagine.
Reducing debt is very good - I think that is where airlines like SWA have a big cost advantage over us.