At some point I think the shareholders will force a change. They're likely pointing to all the money being left on the table with the silly little "Bags fly free" campaign. With no room for organic growth, and an industry that is continuing to see strong capacity discipline, SWA will have to find other forms of revenue. Plus, AirTran is still charging for bags.

Great news four of the ten are part of SkyTeam:
10 Of The World's Most Dangerous Airlines - Yahoo! Finance

I think they compiled that list by drawing names out of a hat. :p

I flew with one who was mad that sick leave counts toward the block hour limit. He also flies part 91 on the side.

Nice!

I'm sure he logs that time towards FAR limits, right?

Sigh............. :(

BTW, can he even fly Part 91 for money while employed at DAL?

I'm thinking no.

BTW, quick count SO it might not be as accurate but of the airplanes in our 720ish mainline fleet about 270 of them are 1992 or older. Basically, in 2020 they'll be near 28-30 years old or older.

Looking at the 270 number, a tad over 245 or 90% are from the domestic fleet:

• 107 are MD88s or 92% of the entire MD-88 fleet.
• 18 are DC9s and yes, like you, I believe they'll still be here.
• 9 are 767-300 domesticateds.
• 76 are B757s of various varieties.
• 35 are the A320s.

I'll be happy once we order 250+ domestic jets in this decade. Anything less and I'm just not really going to see it as anything other than replacements.

Source:
http://www.airfleets.net/flottecie/Delta%20Airlines.htm

And the reason I used the 30 year old benchmark, right now we only have 2.5% or 18 jets in the fleet flying over the age of 30...

http://ces2012.bremiclem.com/wp-cont...ta_dc_9_50.jpg

I don't think so either.

George,

You are probably correct. The old time traditional Frequent Flier was the corporate guy who did not know what his Company paid for his ticket. Mostly those are tickets for fully refundable last minute travel (kind of like a positive space non rev, and that's exactly how it "feels" )

Because most of my clients' assignments are near my office, I never rack up a lot of miles. Yet, on average my tickets cost > $1,000 plus service fees. For purchasers like me, this change is terrific. Since I'm usually paying 400% of a First Class ticket booked 14 days out it is nice for the program to evolve its standards for recognition.

Many of our FF are leisure travelers who are very savy at scoring low priced fares. God bless those folks, we love their business. But, it is a little unfair for the high margin guys to get thrown in back when you consider what they pay for "flexibility."

We just have to be careful not to offend our lower yielding passengers by letting them know in some way that we appreciate them too. US Air produced surprisingly good numbers this year. If they merge with American they are going to be even tougher competition, particularly for the flexible travelers.