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Originally Posted by johnso29 (Post 1353302)

FTB mentioned 330s & 767-400s yesterday. I'll take a look.

I might have been wrong, I think it was 763s not 764s.

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Originally Posted by forgot to bid (Post 1353305)

I might have been wrong, I think it was 763s not 764s.

That's what it looks like. I also saw a 757, and both the 330-200 & 330-300.

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Originally Posted by Purple Drank (Post 1353300)

I hope Delta got paid a ton of money.
I can't imagine any other reason the company would want to be associated with that SNAFU.

Hopefully. Did you see that the first bus transporting the passengers from Mobile to MSY broke? What a nightmare.

looks like the plane train started smoking under concourse d. Not to worry we'll all be dead in a half an hour. :D

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Originally Posted by Purple Drank (Post 1353300)

I hope Delta got paid a ton of money.
I can't imagine any other reason the company would want to be associated with that SNAFU.

I think all airlines would be salivating for the publicity of being the good guys who saved the day, no? People all over are following that story. If Delta does the job without a hitch, that's a lot of good, free publicity.

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Originally Posted by full of luv (Post 1352845)

They have just started additional AUS flying and Aukland doesn't even start till next month I believe. Nothing magical about these routes, Delta could start tomorrow if there was a treasure chest of money to be made.

HAL is focused like a laser on pleasure travelers coming to Hawaii for vacation. Most Hawaiians (especially the govt) would rightfully fear that Delta merger would mean a "rationalization" of the aircraft to higher profit routes, probably even bypassing Hawaii altogether. I can tell you after living in Hawaii for nearly a decade, the government and populace of Hawaii would probably lobby/regulate hard against a merger without huge concessions to the state and promises which would make the deal probably unpalatable to mgmt.
HAL is one of the largest (if not the largest) NON-Government employers in Hawaii. To have that Ohana business removed from the landscape after the failure of Aloha would be considered devastating to the local populace. Obviously people would still fly, but HAL's limited success would be more difficult to replicate with an off island airline in control.
Aloha,
LUV

There would be little value to purchase/merge with Hawaiian and then dismantle it and reroute everything. I don't see that happening. If DL makes a move for Hawaiian it will be because DL wants what HA brings. In fact, depending on what goes on in Japan, which is still very much up in the air, HA ops for DL could see a dramatic increase.

Common fleets, even the weird orphan one, and a painless merger integration scenario due to size, and a pric tag that is only a couple ticks to the right of the decimal point on DL's annual profits and an EZ DOT/DOJ aprooval process make it at least somewhat likely.

If DL had to grease the skids by offering the HI govt certain guarantees (with penalties attatched) I'm sure that wouldn't be an issue. HA is not like NWA or any of the other consolidation we're seeing here on the mainland. If DL buys HA it will be because it wants HA. There is very little overlap to synnergize. It is arguably the only one of the many merger scenarios that actually makes sense from an employee perspective (i.e. not doing it just to downsize).

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Originally Posted by Ferd149 (Post 1352875)

For all you losers who have screwed today up........words of wisdom from Morgan Freeman.

A Valentine’s Day Message From “Morgan Freeman” [AUDIO]

If she gets all torqued off that you forgot, just be all like: "well what did you plan for me today? it's MY day too, you know!"

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Originally Posted by 80ktsClamp (Post 1352936)

That transoceanic plan sounds like it will MORE exacerbate the deficiency of our share of flying on the JV, not help it. It's going to be very interesting seeing as to how that's addressed.

Maybe their plan on the planed in our faces non compliance is like DC's plan on the debt. Just run it so far out of control there is no workable solution and then throw up their hands and say "oh well, nothing we can do now."

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Originally Posted by johnso29 (Post 1353302)

FTB mentioned 330s & 767-400s yesterday. I'll take a look.

ATL 7er had a charter that went to MSY-IAH-IND.

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Originally Posted by nwaf16dude (Post 1353215)

When the new FTDT rules take effect, which is another year or so. It actually changes to 14 hours, not 12, and the max number of SC per month goes up to 7 from 6.

The shortcall max only goes up in a month where reserves are paid 75 hours or more. That works out to about half the year so short calls will increase on average to 6.5 max. The average overall shortcall utilization by the company runs around 2.8 per month.