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

Man I hope our beancounters make a mistake and pick up a bunch of these "MD-90s" for a song...

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/25953519/Il-76MD-90.jpg

Just imagine, all the joys of McDonnel Douglas but engineered in Russia :D

Cheers
George

I wanna be the nose gunner! :eek:

Or is that a 'Nose First' refueling pod?

Do they refuel 69 style in Russia?

Denny Crane

02-05-2013 04:47 PM

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Originally Posted by johnso29 (Post 1346520)

In 2015, Delta has the contractual right to require Skywest Inc to reset their rates to the point that Skywest & ExpressJet are the 2nd cheapest DCI operator. If Skywest doesn't comply, their flying can be terminated. Delta has created a whipsaw machine. I personally think 9E isn't going anywhere.

This is true but if Skywest refuses, I don't see Delta terminating a major portion of their flying anytime soon. Who else does what they do in SLC?

Denny

Mesabah

02-05-2013 05:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Denny Crane (Post 1346668)

This is true but if Skywest refuses, I don't see Delta terminating a major portion of their flying anytime soon. Who else does what they do in SLC?

Denny

You're correct, when Pinnacle was in breach of contract, Delta simply stopped paying them the increased rates. That's what will happen here, Delta will simply start paying skywest/xjt a lower rate that is between hojet, and pimp-a-nickle. It will then be up to them on how to adjust to the rate reset; we went bankrupt.

johnso29

02-05-2013 05:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Denny Crane (Post 1346668)

This is true but if Skywest refuses, I don't see Delta terminating a major portion of their flying anytime soon. Who else does what they do in SLC?

Denny

GoJet and Pinnacle. Delta doesn't care who it's operated by. I'm thinking they could work a slow transfer out. JMO.

tsquare

02-05-2013 05:10 PM

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Originally Posted by buzzpat (Post 1346549)

....sounds a lot like CVG. You want lower fares, you got 'em.

And the interesting thing is that about 6 months ago the mayor of Memphis went to ATL to see what could be done to ensure a continued presence of Delta's service. Well... duuuuh. It's just one more example of how the public feels we are a public service that is not allowed to make a profit.

That in a nutshell is why I don't have much sympathy for some of these cities. They want world class service.. they need to support the world class airlines. Give us some of the sweetheart deals that you offer SWA for gate spaces and such. You don't want to do that... we are entitled to go where we can make a profit, and playing on an uneven surface will cause us to leave. Like you said... You want low fares... fill in the blanks. Just don't cry when you have to go to ATL or ORD to go to Europe/SA/Asia instead of going to the local airport.

Boomer

02-05-2013 05:47 PM

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Originally Posted by avi8tor220 (Post 1346483)

Any of you Delta guys care to guess why a couple Delta executives are now being sent to Pinnacle to run it? I know we are probably reading too much into it. They are probably there to slowly shut pinnacle down. But couldn't they just easily shut Pinnacle down with their current management in place? Is this how Comair was shut down? Just trying to get some opinions.

Three of Comair's last five "leaders" came from executive positions at Delta/Northwest. The other two left Comair to become executives at Delta.

Will Pinnacle wind up with the same fate? I don't know, but so far the game is playing out the same.

qball

02-05-2013 06:02 PM

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Originally Posted by forgot to bid (Post 1346088)

Is it just me, and I don't have george data to back this up, but seems like there are a lot more 747s flying cargo out of Atlanta lately.

"There's no money in cargo". Unless we had our own fleet of 747 freighters....oh wait, nevermind.

KC10 FATboy

02-05-2013 06:48 PM

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Originally Posted by qball (Post 1346711)

"There's no money in cargo". Unless we had our own fleet of 747 freighters....oh wait, nevermind.

There is money in cargo, but a lot of cargo companies have recently shut doors.

qball

02-05-2013 07:16 PM

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Originally Posted by KC10 FATboy (Post 1346740)

There is money in cargo, but a lot of cargo companies have recently shut doors.

Just one more thing we have outsourced...if memory serves, it was only about 6 months after we shut down our freighters that Air France cargo started twice a week 747F ATL-CDG.

GunshipGuy

02-05-2013 07:27 PM

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Originally Posted by tsquare (Post 1346685)

That in a nutshell is why I don't have much sympathy for some of these cities. They want world class service.. they need to support the world class airlines. Give us some of the sweetheart deals that you offer SWA for gate spaces and such. You don't want to do that... we are entitled to go where we can make a profit, and playing on an uneven surface will cause us to leave. Like you said... You want low fares... fill in the blanks. Just don't cry when you have to go to ATL or ORD to go to Europe/SA/Asia instead of going to the local airport.

Head of nail, meet hammer!

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