Gunfighter

It's great that we are getting more feed into our domestic route structure from AeroMexico. This should support Delta's plan for continued domestic upgauging as well as a little bump in profit sharing.

CGfalconHerc

Stable balance sheet, paying off debt, paying profit sharing, pay scale back to top of industry, taking new WB and NB aircraft, bringiing RJ flying back to mainline, recalled all 1310 furloughees, hiring over 1000/yr, designating 3 mos Captains, bringing new arcft types (A350..C-series) into the legacy market.

Most importantly.. great people to fly with..and the Captain buys the beer!

We lost the pension, took huge concessions in BK, and had the most successful merger of 2 global airlines in history..but those sacrifices paid off.

We've come a long way since 9/11.

JMHO, CG..

3 green

Delta is going to redo the Camp Creek parking area so we will be able to back out of the spots, and they are going increase the bus frequency to how it was in the past...Not..Just wishful thinking.

Planetrain

No - not trolling.

I am pretty bummed about the shrinking of NRT. As these customers get replaced with codeshare on other airlines, I thought I'd share what it looks like to be on the receiving end of codeshare in our favor.

For all those routes listed, "Aeromexico Operated by Delta" means Aeromexico is surrendering all their customers that want to go to those destinations to Delta metal. That means an extra agent selling Delta seats for us. That means more customers on our existing routes. Upgauging and more jobs to our bread and butter routes that fill the majority of our pilots paychecks.

For once there may even be chatter in the Aeromexico crew room about loss of American layovers. (Just like we lament the loss of BKK or GUM).

While Newk may have flown these markets in the 120ish-seat DC9, I bet it wasn't with this many seats or frequencies.

I see for example next summer:
ATL-FLL 15Xday by 199-seat 757
ATL-BHM 11Xday by 149-seat M88
DTW-PHL 7X day in a mix of 149-seat M88, 158-seat M90, and 1 717 and 1 stretch RJ.

Azores, LAX-CDG, extra LOS, LIS, MCO-AMS are all nice... but can you believe in summer of '18 we will serve AMS 19X a day? A majority with 293-seat A333s?

6/15/2018 FLT DEP ARR EQUP
DL 142 SEA AMS A333
DL 144 SEA AMS 763
DL 178 PDX AMS A333
DL 160 MSP AMS A333
DL 162 MSP AMS A333
DL 164 MSP AMS A333
DL 56 SLC AMS 763
DL 132 DTW AMS A333
DL 134 DTW AMS A333
DL 136 DTW AMS A333
DL 46 JFK AMS 763
DL 48 JFK AMS A333
DL 126 MCO AMS 763
DL 70 ATL AMS A333
DL 72 ATL AMS A333
DL 74 ATL AMS 772
DL 256 BOS AMS A333
DL 258 BOS AMS 763
DL 148 EWR AMS 763

I'm not trying to minimize any layover loses. Those truly stink.
Just trying to be positive in this thread as DL quietly and simultaneously expands our seniority list, mainline aircraft count, seat capacity, and paychecks to all-time high levels.

flyallnite

LAX and NYC get a lot of attention regarding new terminals, but SLC is halfway through the construction of their new terminal, and it will be quite something. It should allow for upgaging/expansion and will operate effectively in adverse weather. The old terminal will be completely razed when the new one opens...

https://www.slcairport.com/thenewslc

BobZ

73max....and sum used 777s.

80ktsClamp

Dear Lord, please no.

Hopefully Boeing has stepped on it's crank enough with us for more 737s to not be a likelihood.

TED74

CS700, or CSMAX!!!

forgot to bid

Boeing fans be like:

forgot to bid

Do we even still own 777s?