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TA&M is the team of the future. You heard it here first.. UT (The ones with the wrong shade of orange) will be a backburner team in the next few years.... well.. kind of like the team with the right shade of orange. A&M will recruit the hell out of that state and take Bama to the woodshed in years to come.

Bama 49, Irish 35...

And FU is not overrated, they just got beat by a better team. If anything, they have been a little underrated all year except for the usual ESPN lovefest. UGA will be scary good if their talent doesn't depart for the NFL. UT and AU will still suck next year. :( Nebraska is an overrated team. Always have been.

JMHO, YMMV

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shiznit

01-03-2013 12:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Thrust Normal (Post 1323024)

The new service will be operated by Delta Connection carrier SkyWest Airlines using 76-seat two-class CRJ900 regional jets. In addition to a first class cabin, these aircraft are equipped with onboard WiFi and Delta's snack, food for purchase and beverage offerings.:(

It isn't perfect, but I have a feeling it will lead to mainline taking over at some point in the future.

Our scope only allows 15% of all DCI flights to be over 900SM(the "NEW" UCAL TA allows 20% over 900SM....thanks for raising the bar, ugh.), and KLAX-KSEA is around 950-960. Therefore thery are eating into their allotment of "long range" RJ flights. As DCI goes from 600 down to 450 aircraft, the number of 900+ mile flights will diminish by roughly 25% also. Adding in 6 more segments when reducing the overall allowance will place a higher importance of utilizing the right airplane on routes. It is a place holder and a test to see if they can sell enough tickets to generate a revenue positive market share. if that happens and they can expand it by a few more seats and maintain the positive revenue you will see some or all of those legs up-gauged to mainline in the future.

ThePenguin328

01-03-2013 01:11 PM

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Originally Posted by shiznit (Post 1323074)

Our scope only allows 15% of all DCI flights to be over 900SM(the "NEW" UCAL TA allows 20% over 900SM....thanks for raising the bar, ugh.), .

Thanks for giving away 90 seat airframes in the first place! And being the first airline to outsource the 50 seat jets at the very beginning of the 90's!

johnso29

01-03-2013 01:22 PM

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Originally Posted by ThePenguin328 (Post 1323086)

Thanks for giving away 90 seat airframes in the first place! And being the first airline to outsource the 50 seat jets at the very beginning of the 90's!

And who do you work for? I'm guessing you won't reveal that. :rolleyes:

shiznit

01-03-2013 01:31 PM

Delta Reports Financial and Operating Performance for December 2012 - Yahoo! Finance

My favorite part(edited for brevity) is:

ASMs:
Domestic. . . . . . (1.8%)
Delta Mainline. . . 0.4%
Regional. . . . . . .(9.5%)

No matter how you cut it, DCI is shrinking.

shiznit

01-03-2013 01:35 PM

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Originally Posted by ThePenguin328 (Post 1323086)

Thanks for giving away 90 seat airframes in the first place! And being the first airline to outsource the 50 seat jets at the very beginning of the 90's!

You mean 90 seat airframes(that make as much sense as 140 seat A-319's) scope 'stolen' in bankruptcy, and nobody had 50 seat scope restrictions previously.

sailingfun

01-03-2013 01:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Bainite (Post 1323054)

From latest MEC mailing:

The Numbers

DL Codeshare Passengers on Alaska Metal Flights

For Q1-Q3 2012, Delta placed 466K Delta (DL) codeshare segment passengers on Alaska (AS) metal. The full year 2012 contribution is estimated to be around 621K passengers.

AS Codeshare Passengers on Delta Metal Flights

For Q1-Q3 2012, AAG placed 319K domestic segment passengers on all Delta metal flights. The full year 2012 contribution is estimated to be approximately 425K domestic segment passengers.

Not exactly even is it?

Considering the relative size of the passenger base at each airline the numbers are much better then I would have expected. I would have thought they would follow a ratio relative to the size of the airlines.

sailingfun

01-03-2013 01:44 PM

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Originally Posted by badflaps (Post 1322991)

A while back a looney shut down both engines on a 76 out of LAX...restart,continues on to CVG... where was he living? In the Employee lot. There is always a reason.

25 years ago. A long while back. It also led to a engineering modification on every 757 in the world.

Pineapple Guy

01-03-2013 01:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Bainite (Post 1323054)

You're right, it sure isn't. Can you put those into percentages of total ASMs at each carrier so we can see who is carrying a larger percentage of the other carrier's passengers??

sailingfun

01-03-2013 01:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Thrust Normal (Post 1323024)

Funny you did not post the next line. Nashville is mainline, Seattle is DCI.

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