Any "Latest & Greatest" about Delta?
03-21-2013 | 08:49 AM
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Does PCS run usually take over 45 minutes to complete?
Assuming it gets busy around next months pcs window opening.
Assuming it gets busy around next months pcs window opening.
03-21-2013 | 08:52 AM
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Best case scenario for Delta aviators = buy HA with their similar fleets and wide to narrow body ratio. Less pilots to integrate, organically grow back the Western route structure that RA 1 and the then Board abandoned with 90's, 717's 73n's. (No mess/no fuss over ALK integration and lack of WB equipment.) Seperate from Alaska and part ways. Adios, Eskimos.
Only problem with this is gate space in SEA. Don't know how many A or B gates available presently. Also, LAX gate space.
Corporation gains more options to use on the NRT/Japanese Gov't issues. Example: a Honolulu hub that possibly can be utilized for Japan over flight like the current plans for SEA, additional South Pacific/Oceana route authority, and best of all, prevents AMR from strenghtening their anemic Pacific structure. Hobble a competitor while they are trying integrate and get out of the gate
PS. Currently out here on the left coast, Hawaii is the prefered vacation destination. Mexico has scared away most of the tourist industry with cartel violence. Something about finding severed heads on the streets in the hotel zone in Acapulco that turns folks off.
"So, what is in those street tacos they are selling, cabeza?"
Additionally, Chinese and Japanese vistors numbers up in the Islands. HA also captures both the west coast and Asian revenue into the Islands where as ALK only offers west coast. I believe they (ALK) has also cut back on Mexican frequency as well and refocused on Hawaii to redeploy their fleet. ALK a on trick pony. HA is a several trick pony easy. Also cheaper.
Only problem with this is gate space in SEA. Don't know how many A or B gates available presently. Also, LAX gate space.
Corporation gains more options to use on the NRT/Japanese Gov't issues. Example: a Honolulu hub that possibly can be utilized for Japan over flight like the current plans for SEA, additional South Pacific/Oceana route authority, and best of all, prevents AMR from strenghtening their anemic Pacific structure. Hobble a competitor while they are trying integrate and get out of the gate
PS. Currently out here on the left coast, Hawaii is the prefered vacation destination. Mexico has scared away most of the tourist industry with cartel violence. Something about finding severed heads on the streets in the hotel zone in Acapulco that turns folks off.
"So, what is in those street tacos they are selling, cabeza?"
Additionally, Chinese and Japanese vistors numbers up in the Islands. HA also captures both the west coast and Asian revenue into the Islands where as ALK only offers west coast. I believe they (ALK) has also cut back on Mexican frequency as well and refocused on Hawaii to redeploy their fleet. ALK a on trick pony. HA is a several trick pony easy. Also cheaper.
03-21-2013 | 08:52 AM
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03-21-2013 | 08:57 AM
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Best case scenario for Delta aviators = buy HA with their similar fleets and wide to narrow body ratio. Less pilots to integrate, organically grow back the Western route structure that RA 1 and the then Board abandoned with 90's, 717's 73n's. (No mess/no fuss over ALK integration and lack of WB equipment.) Seperate from Alaska and part ways. Adios, Eskimos.
Only problem with this is gate space in SEA. Don't know how many A or B gates available presently. Also, LAX gate space.
Corporation gains more options to use on the NRT/Japanese Gov't issues. Example: a Honolulu hub that possibly can be utilized for Japan over flight like the current plans for SEA, additional South Pacific/Oceana route authority, and best of all, prevents AMR from strenghtening their anemic Pacific structure. Hobble a competitor while they are trying integrate and get out of the gate
PS. Currently out here on the left coast, Hawaii is the prefered vacation destination. Mexico has scared away most of the tourist industry with cartel violence. Something about finding severed heads on the streets in the hotel zone in Acapulco that turns folks off.
"So, what is in those street tacos they are selling, cabeza?"
Additionally, Chinese and Japanese vistors numbers up in the Islands. HA also captures both the west coast and Asian revenue into the Islands where as ALK only offers west coast. I believe they (ALK) has also cut back on Mexican frequency as well and refocused on Hawaii to redeploy their fleet. ALK a on trick pony. HA is a several trick pony easy. Also cheaper.
Only problem with this is gate space in SEA. Don't know how many A or B gates available presently. Also, LAX gate space.
Corporation gains more options to use on the NRT/Japanese Gov't issues. Example: a Honolulu hub that possibly can be utilized for Japan over flight like the current plans for SEA, additional South Pacific/Oceana route authority, and best of all, prevents AMR from strenghtening their anemic Pacific structure. Hobble a competitor while they are trying integrate and get out of the gate
PS. Currently out here on the left coast, Hawaii is the prefered vacation destination. Mexico has scared away most of the tourist industry with cartel violence. Something about finding severed heads on the streets in the hotel zone in Acapulco that turns folks off.
"So, what is in those street tacos they are selling, cabeza?"
Additionally, Chinese and Japanese vistors numbers up in the Islands. HA also captures both the west coast and Asian revenue into the Islands where as ALK only offers west coast. I believe they (ALK) has also cut back on Mexican frequency as well and refocused on Hawaii to redeploy their fleet. ALK a on trick pony. HA is a several trick pony easy. Also cheaper.
I also agree w/ separating from AK. Looks like that is starting to happen anyway. We now fly LAX-SEA and will be doing many other overlapping AK routes.
BRING ON a HA Merger!!
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03-21-2013 | 09:06 AM
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*THUD*
He's right though. We do have a crapload of widebodies, even Super widebodies. Just not ones painted in DL colors.
Delta sees no need for new widebody order: Bastian
Delta Air Lines has no need to begin long-term widebody fleet replacement "any time soon", says its president Ed Bastian.
Speaking to journalists at a press conference in London, he described reports that the airline is studying a purchase of further Airbus A330s and Boeing 777s as "interesting", but said he did not see such an order as "necessary in the near future".
He says Delta's policy of "updating and modernising" its aircraft means it has the youngest widebody fleet among the major US carriers, with an average age of 12 years, and as such it has no "additional needs".
"We made a decision several years ago that we were not going to be growing that widebody fleet," he adds, noting that the airline recently invested around $1 billion on refurbishing its aircraft interiors.
Delta's only unfulfilled widebody order is for 18 Boeing 787-8s plus 50 options. With deliveries scheduled from 2020 onwards, Bastian says this is far enough in the future for the SkyTeam carrier not to have to consider altering its plans.
He's right though. We do have a crapload of widebodies, even Super widebodies. Just not ones painted in DL colors.
Delta sees no need for new widebody order: Bastian
Delta Air Lines has no need to begin long-term widebody fleet replacement "any time soon", says its president Ed Bastian.
Speaking to journalists at a press conference in London, he described reports that the airline is studying a purchase of further Airbus A330s and Boeing 777s as "interesting", but said he did not see such an order as "necessary in the near future".
He says Delta's policy of "updating and modernising" its aircraft means it has the youngest widebody fleet among the major US carriers, with an average age of 12 years, and as such it has no "additional needs".
"We made a decision several years ago that we were not going to be growing that widebody fleet," he adds, noting that the airline recently invested around $1 billion on refurbishing its aircraft interiors.
Delta's only unfulfilled widebody order is for 18 Boeing 787-8s plus 50 options. With deliveries scheduled from 2020 onwards, Bastian says this is far enough in the future for the SkyTeam carrier not to have to consider altering its plans.
03-21-2013 | 09:20 AM
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03-21-2013 | 09:25 AM
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03-21-2013 | 09:27 AM
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*THUD*
He's right though. We do have a crapload of widebodies, even Super widebodies. Just not ones painted in DL colors.
Delta sees no need for new widebody order: Bastian
Delta Air Lines has no need to begin long-term widebody fleet replacement "any time soon", says its president Ed Bastian.
Speaking to journalists at a press conference in London, he described reports that the airline is studying a purchase of further Airbus A330s and Boeing 777s as "interesting", but said he did not see such an order as "necessary in the near future".
He says Delta's policy of "updating and modernising" its aircraft means it has the youngest widebody fleet among the major US carriers, with an average age of 12 years, and as such it has no "additional needs".
"We made a decision several years ago that we were not going to be growing that widebody fleet," he adds, noting that the airline recently invested around $1 billion on refurbishing its aircraft interiors.
Delta's only unfulfilled widebody order is for 18 Boeing 787-8s plus 50 options. With deliveries scheduled from 2020 onwards, Bastian says this is far enough in the future for the SkyTeam carrier not to have to consider altering its plans.
He's right though. We do have a crapload of widebodies, even Super widebodies. Just not ones painted in DL colors.
Delta sees no need for new widebody order: Bastian
Delta Air Lines has no need to begin long-term widebody fleet replacement "any time soon", says its president Ed Bastian.
Speaking to journalists at a press conference in London, he described reports that the airline is studying a purchase of further Airbus A330s and Boeing 777s as "interesting", but said he did not see such an order as "necessary in the near future".
He says Delta's policy of "updating and modernising" its aircraft means it has the youngest widebody fleet among the major US carriers, with an average age of 12 years, and as such it has no "additional needs".
"We made a decision several years ago that we were not going to be growing that widebody fleet," he adds, noting that the airline recently invested around $1 billion on refurbishing its aircraft interiors.
Delta's only unfulfilled widebody order is for 18 Boeing 787-8s plus 50 options. With deliveries scheduled from 2020 onwards, Bastian says this is far enough in the future for the SkyTeam carrier not to have to consider altering its plans.
More widebodies does seem too good to be true. Although he did say replacement, so maybe they would be growth?
Ill believe it when I see them on the ramp.
03-21-2013 | 09:28 AM
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03-21-2013 | 09:35 AM
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I was the plug Captain at NWA through 2008. There was one guy junior to me but he stayed out on mil leave. A few came in below me in 2009 before the pendulum started swinging the other way. I was never more than 5 or 6 from the bottom.
My seniority is in the 8300s. Nu, there is your benchmark.
My seniority is in the 8300s. Nu, there is your benchmark.
It's irrelevant if a guy got displaced from a CA seat, then decided to not re-upgrade, as someone around his immediate seniority probably would have taken that opportunity to return to the left seat or bid it for the first time.
Take a look at JobHopper's post. A quick look at the current category list shows the low # for a CA is mid 8000s. This "AE", which displaced almost as many as were awarded, the highest CA number was in the high 7000s or there abouts.
That is a long way to go before you get to JobHopper's 8300. Probably at least another 250-350 captain positions, at an absolute minimum. Same as a it's a long way to go to actually get "a raise" (never mind retirement or health care costs).
If we want to get on the web here and blovate about how wonderful things are, that's fine, but keep it in the proper context. If you want to consider it the "new normal" and use that as the new touchstone as to how things are, that's fine too, but at least have the personal integrity to say so up front.
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