New Hire Class Drops
02-12-2025 | 12:59 PM
#5231
Gets Weekends Off
Joined: Mar 2015
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From: ir.delta.com
Might as well do the XLR. Has some flap and wing tweaks to help heavier weights get off the deck, so you aren't just trading payload for fuel. We have 70 Neo options to go, wouldn't be difficult to make two dozen the XLRs.
Bonus would be using them on longer stuff elsewhere depending on the season. Use them for West coast to Hawaii November to April, then eastern US to Europe in the rest of the year. Yes before someone jumps down my throat on widebodies for TATL, Cargo, etc I get it. Just thinking about getting maximum use out of an asset like that. Easy enough to send them on MSP/DTW/JFK-KEF for the summer seasonal stuff. Gets network some various gauge to work with, and we know they like that. Prob could work on stuff like BOS-EDI/LIS where there's less likely to be cargo, and we can send that stuff on the heavies to JFK just down the road.
Bonus would be using them on longer stuff elsewhere depending on the season. Use them for West coast to Hawaii November to April, then eastern US to Europe in the rest of the year. Yes before someone jumps down my throat on widebodies for TATL, Cargo, etc I get it. Just thinking about getting maximum use out of an asset like that. Easy enough to send them on MSP/DTW/JFK-KEF for the summer seasonal stuff. Gets network some various gauge to work with, and we know they like that. Prob could work on stuff like BOS-EDI/LIS where there's less likely to be cargo, and we can send that stuff on the heavies to JFK just down the road.
02-12-2025 | 01:59 PM
#5233
Banned
Joined: Dec 2016
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02-12-2025 | 02:14 PM
#5234
On Reserve
Joined: Oct 2019
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Might as well do the XLR. Has some flap and wing tweaks to help heavier weights get off the deck, so you aren't just trading payload for fuel. We have 70 Neo options to go, wouldn't be difficult to make two dozen the XLRs.
Bonus would be using them on longer stuff elsewhere depending on the season. Use them for West coast to Hawaii November to April, then eastern US to Europe in the rest of the year. Yes before someone jumps down my throat on widebodies for TATL, Cargo, etc I get it. Just thinking about getting maximum use out of an asset like that. Easy enough to send them on MSP/DTW/JFK-KEF for the summer seasonal stuff. Gets network some various gauge to work with, and we know they like that. Prob could work on stuff like BOS-EDI/LIS where there's less likely to be cargo, and we can send that stuff on the heavies to JFK just down the road.
Bonus would be using them on longer stuff elsewhere depending on the season. Use them for West coast to Hawaii November to April, then eastern US to Europe in the rest of the year. Yes before someone jumps down my throat on widebodies for TATL, Cargo, etc I get it. Just thinking about getting maximum use out of an asset like that. Easy enough to send them on MSP/DTW/JFK-KEF for the summer seasonal stuff. Gets network some various gauge to work with, and we know they like that. Prob could work on stuff like BOS-EDI/LIS where there's less likely to be cargo, and we can send that stuff on the heavies to JFK just down the road.
02-12-2025 | 05:12 PM
#5235
Can’t find crew pickup
Joined: Jun 2021
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Likes: 187
Might as well do the XLR. Has some flap and wing tweaks to help heavier weights get off the deck, so you aren't just trading payload for fuel. We have 70 Neo options to go, wouldn't be difficult to make two dozen the XLRs.
Bonus would be using them on longer stuff elsewhere depending on the season. Use them for West coast to Hawaii November to April, then eastern US to Europe in the rest of the year. Yes before someone jumps down my throat on widebodies for TATL, Cargo, etc I get it. Just thinking about getting maximum use out of an asset like that. Easy enough to send them on MSP/DTW/JFK-KEF for the summer seasonal stuff. Gets network some various gauge to work with, and we know they like that. Prob could work on stuff like BOS-EDI/LIS where there's less likely to be cargo, and we can send that stuff on the heavies to JFK just down the road.
Bonus would be using them on longer stuff elsewhere depending on the season. Use them for West coast to Hawaii November to April, then eastern US to Europe in the rest of the year. Yes before someone jumps down my throat on widebodies for TATL, Cargo, etc I get it. Just thinking about getting maximum use out of an asset like that. Easy enough to send them on MSP/DTW/JFK-KEF for the summer seasonal stuff. Gets network some various gauge to work with, and we know they like that. Prob could work on stuff like BOS-EDI/LIS where there's less likely to be cargo, and we can send that stuff on the heavies to JFK just down the road.
No. Absolutely not. Why trade away WB jobs.
02-15-2025 | 09:10 PM
#5240
What's a weekend?
Joined: Dec 2017
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From: Widget FO
it switched to the ER fleet because they were worried about winds and the fleet was heavily underutilized for the past few months. The NEO is plenty capable of doing it out of LAX/SEA in the peak of winter winds. It handles it just fine. Hell the MAX handled it just fine in the winter and burned slightly more and carried slightly less. But flight ops did the wiser move and used a fleet that was sitting doing nothing on a route they knew it could handle.
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