Originally Posted by
acl65pilot
I am deleting the hotel. Lets leave those off a public board.
I thought gunfighter was using a dirty word when describing the hotel and thats why there were the ***s.
It made sense, funny it was just the name.
Originally Posted by
acl65pilot
I like it too. That is 80 seats on the largest jets we have. That is a lot of training events.
DAL has always looked at the 195, but it is old technology. The C-Series, clean sheet 320/73N, or the 195X are really where their focus is. Of course we will not turn down a great deal on lightly used jets.
Jet Airways has a ton of 777-300's that will come avail once the 787 arrives, and Emirates will be trading in lightly used jets. All of those could be great deals for DAL.
Mexicina will probably be turning in the MEH 717's the Saudia MD-90's would work nicely with those.
Point is there are a lot of options out there that do not require us buying new jets just yet.
3 MD90s used = 1 738 new. Hmmm. How many used A319s can we get are hands on to be the future small jet in lieu of Ejets and Cjets. I mean more A319s doesn't require, probably, any more sims for instance, different suppliers, different pilot/fa/mx/tech training.
717s? Hmm. The one thing about that airplane is if you can run a single category for Saudi MD90s and 717s then it makes getting the Saudi 90s all that much better. You won't have a small subfleet of pilots for instance. You'll have a lot of flexibility and you'll have a 93, 94 and 95 replacement in the 717.
The irony would be buying Airtran equipment 20 years after they bought DAL 9s.
Originally Posted by
DAL 88 Driver
ACL,
Can you elaborate on that? It seems to me that fleet simplicity would still be more efficient, regardless of size. What am I missing?
I'm not speaking for ACL but when I was hired the merger rumors were strong and a manager was having a Q&A with our class and someone asked about moving away from the all Boeing idea by now getting Airbuses. He said when it came to acquisitions, it was good not to be Boeing only. When it came to maintenance you don't get much cheaper, actually we'd already be maxed out, because we'd have a large fleet of whatever we've got. FWIW.