Airline Pilot Central Forums - Any "Latest & Greatest" about Delta?

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DeadHead

10-24-2012 11:24 AM

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Originally Posted by tsquare (Post 1282056)

Could you please be quiet... the adults are talking here.

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shiznit

10-24-2012 11:29 AM

Anybody see the Reuters story that said Trainer is supposed to make a $300 million yearly profit with a $16 crack spread?

It went on to say that the current Brent crack is roughly $20, and the Bakken is running about $42!

The gain is roughly $18.75 mil per dollar of crack.

$20 crack would yield $375 mil yearly
$42 crack would yield $787.5 mil yearly

If UAL wants to buy a refinery we should either buy it to capture the "20% domestic and whatever % international", or bid it up high so UAL massively overpays.

Enemyofthestate

10-24-2012 11:29 AM

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Originally Posted by dvhighdrive88 (Post 1282046)

So are the 70 jets for Delta pilots to fly or are they going to regionals?

They'll probably fly for the lowest bidder - likely PNCL in BK after the 1113C guts them.

nwaf16dude

10-24-2012 11:37 AM

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Originally Posted by shiznit (Post 1282085)

According to Ed Bastian, the refineries that remain on the market have already been bid up significantly compared to where we bought in. The Carlyle group bought a refinery after our purchase and spent much more than we did.

shiznit

10-24-2012 11:38 AM

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Originally Posted by Enemyofthestate (Post 1282086)

They'll probably fly for the lowest bidder - likely PNCL in BK after the 1113C guts them.

I thought it would be SKYW at first, but I surmise DAL will want to keep the flying as diversified as possible to blunt the effect of "too much dependence" on one wet-lease contractor, and the associated leverage that provides.

The PNCL BK is going to have an interesting effect on the wet-lease contractor industry.

IMHO, the next DALPA scope goal WRT RJ's needs to be no 'next-gen' power plants or turboprops at DCI, that will remove the problem through natural efficiency without the need for charts/ratios/fleet counts.

shiznit

10-24-2012 11:41 AM

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Originally Posted by nwaf16dude (Post 1282089)

Like Roy Hobbs said, "Pick me out a winner Bobby."

80ktsClamp

10-24-2012 12:10 PM

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Originally Posted by shiznit (Post 1282090)

IMHO, the next DALPA scope goal WRT RJ's needs to be no 'next-gen' power plants or turboprops at DCI, that will remove the problem through natural efficiency without the need for charts/ratios/fleet counts.

This was a primary reason for me voting no on the TA... the jumbo RJs coming online are already long term viable.

I hope they do this, though.... but in my talks with "captain" AG ( ;) ), he doesn't think RJs should be at mainline at the payrates we have on them now. :eek: No bueno!

Doug Masters

10-24-2012 12:13 PM

While our airline turns out profits as we shrink, just imagine how much MORE $$$ we can make if we keep shrinking!! Err...wait...

NuGuy

10-24-2012 12:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Cycle Pilot (Post 1282058)

Delta pilots fly RJ's? To quote one of my recent Captains... "I don't want to fly RJ's." This was in response to me telling him that the 70 new large RJ's should be flown by Delta pilots. So to answer your question... No. They'll be flown by the regionals, of course.

The irony being is that he'd probably never have to fly one.

Nu

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