Originally Posted by PilotFrog (Post 1293916)

Good night APC

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Originally Posted by flyallnite (Post 1293852)

ALTA: Delta chief sees future in bilateral partnerships

Delta Air Lines chief executive Richard Anderson sees bilateral partnerships between airlines as the solution to foreign ownership restrictions.
"Once the world ends up consolidated to a rational organisational construct [in each region], then these bilateral relationships with anti-trust immunity will give us the same commercial value," he says on cross-border consolidation at the forum yesterday. "It will be the next way our industry continues to return its invested capital to its shareholders."
Latin America is a global leader of crossborder consolidation. Brazil's TAM and Chile's LAN merged to create LATAM Airlines Group in June and Colombia's Avianca and El Salvador's Taca merged in 2010.
Foreign investment in US airlines is restricted to an up to 25% equity stake.
Atlanta-based Delta's partnerships with Alaska Airlines, Gol, Virgin Australia and WestJet are just as important - if not more - to it than its membership in the SkyTeam alliance, says Anderson.
He anticipates that the large global alliances will become more "umbrella" organisations for global co-operation, while carriers develop their bilateral relationships in key markets.
"[With] eight or 10 really strong, deep relationships in the important markets where Delta is committed professionally and economically to our partners, we will be far more successful in building our hubs and our global network," says Anderson.
Delta will begin codesharing with Gol to 36 destinations in Brazil and Latin America from December, according to a US Department of Transportation filing earlier this month. The move comes after it made a $100 million equity investment in the Brazilian airline at the end of 2011.
Anderson says that the two carriers will "continue to connect" their networks.

Originally Posted by forgot to bid (Post 1293657)

oh you should have pestered him with questions and played the star struck average passenger.

cuz there is nothing more that a dressed up pilot at a publix in the suburbs (hot mom land) wants to do more than talk to a dude about airplanes.

especially one that keeps asking what kinds of row do you fly, how fast is your airplane, how high can you fly, do you ever get scared, what's the scariest airport, do you ever get scared, do you fly the same route all the time, your uncle worked at Delta, is it hard, what happens in turbulence, one time you thought you were going to die and the plane was shaking...

just think Land, you alone could've prevented this from happening again.

Originally Posted by forgot to bid (Post 1293945)

are we supposed to guess the overnight? i say Charleston? its those ice cream vendors.

Originally Posted by GBU-24 (Post 1293953)

Anyone have a WSJ this morning? Is there an blurb about Delta on the front page?...They were talking about it on Squack Box this morning...

It's Friday I can say "Box"...right?

Originally Posted by forgot to bid (Post 1293946)

translation? kiss mass premium wide body international growth good bye... if you hadn't already.

and embrace painting all the airplanes from all the different airlines in the alliance the same color and saying this is Skyteam by Delta..

just when someone needs a little cash flow, swap routes, pull down your presence, shift cargo, etc.

they're very smart.