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I feel that our chances of improving QOL for all of us is directly proportional to our leverage as a Pilot group. What all pilots should realize is that the more we outsource, whether it is via small jet scope, widebody JVs, or code sharing, the less leverage we as a pilot group have. If we are not careful we can get to a point where we are basically impotent as a labor group.
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I feel that our chances of improving QOL for all of us is directly proportional to our leverage as a Pilot group. What all pilots should realize is that the more we outsource, whether it is via small jet scope, widebody JVs, or code sharing, the less leverage we as a pilot group have. If we are not careful we can get to a point where we are basically impotent as a labor group.
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I have yet to see the JV language, but I hear good things about it.
We might have a deal with Japan Air Lines somewhere on the horizon. It is very important to get that right. JAL has pulled out of several asian markets and the result is some full Delta jets on flights like NRT/MNL
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Total number of RJ's: Down.
Total number of DCI block hours: Down.
Total number of DCI pilots: Down.
Let's look on the large aircraft side. Has the JV with AF/KLM cost or created Delta pilot jobs? I assert it has created jobs, jobs that without the JV "outsourcing" otherwise would not have existed. Our access to LHR is a prime example. Could NWA have flown SEA, PDX and LAX without the AS codeshare? They brought that to the merger, along with A330 and B744 flying fed by those flights. Those are "super premium" jobs that wouldn't exist without the feed, and you've said yourself that it would be a fools mission to replicate organically what AS provides.
I disagree with your assertion that we can expect lower lows. I disagree with your position that scope hasn't gotten it's due diligence.
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Slow,
Could you comment on all this talk of some sort of big DCI min standard contract flow (double staple) or whatever it is that all the regional guys keep talking about? What's the plan? Is it real? Is management on board with this thing?
Could you comment on all this talk of some sort of big DCI min standard contract flow (double staple) or whatever it is that all the regional guys keep talking about? What's the plan? Is it real? Is management on board with this thing?
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No, you're putting words in my mouth. I never said that scope didin't matter, and I especially didn't say "no harm no foul". You espoused that "MidWest is an illustration of what happens when scope is relaxed to the point that the primary pilot group loses relevance." My point is that scope is not the causal factor that the group lost relevance. Economics was. Scope was only a contributing factor.
Our MEC has done an excellent job of understanding the economics. By leveraging our cooperation with the merger we've received objective gains that no other pilot group have got, during a heck of a downturn.
If we get through 2011 and make it to the wave of retirements without furloughs, those who designed our agreement certainly deserve enormous credit.
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You assert that there's been a continued outsourcing of our flying. Are you sure you're correct?
Total number of RJ's: Down.
Total number of DCI block hours: Down.
Total number of DCI pilots: Down.
Let's look on the large aircraft side. Has the JV with AF/KLM cost or created Delta pilot jobs? I assert it has created jobs, jobs that without the JV "outsourcing" otherwise would not have existed. Our access to LHR is a prime example. Could NWA have flown SEA, PDX and LAX without the AS codeshare? They brought that to the merger, along with A330 and B744 flying fed by those flights. Those are "super premium" jobs that wouldn't exist without the feed, and you've said yourself that it would be a fools mission to replicate organically what AS provides.
I disagree with your assertion that we can expect lower lows. I disagree with your position that scope hasn't gotten it's due diligence.
Total number of RJ's: Down.
Total number of DCI block hours: Down.
Total number of DCI pilots: Down.
Let's look on the large aircraft side. Has the JV with AF/KLM cost or created Delta pilot jobs? I assert it has created jobs, jobs that without the JV "outsourcing" otherwise would not have existed. Our access to LHR is a prime example. Could NWA have flown SEA, PDX and LAX without the AS codeshare? They brought that to the merger, along with A330 and B744 flying fed by those flights. Those are "super premium" jobs that wouldn't exist without the feed, and you've said yourself that it would be a fools mission to replicate organically what AS provides.
I disagree with your assertion that we can expect lower lows. I disagree with your position that scope hasn't gotten it's due diligence.
Slow,
I take your point as Scope, JVs, and code-shares can be a good thing for all, if carefully constructed - If this is correct - I agree.
As far as the number of RJs being down, its a good start. But when you look at DALs domestic system, especially compared to just a few years ago, it is still pretty disapointing from a DAL Pilot point of view. But, if its the begining of a geometrically increasing trend, then its time to crack open the good stuff!
Scoop
Their ASM's are up.
I do not think that their number count is down from tighter scope. It is from the company seeing, for the time being, that the Rj's are too expensive. Like I have said before, this management team sees this, can we bank on the fact the next one will too?
Let's look on the large aircraft side. Has the JV with AF/KLM cost or created Delta pilot jobs?
I assert it has created jobs, jobs that without the JV "outsourcing" otherwise would not have existed. Our access to LHR is a prime example.
Could NWA have flown SEA, PDX and LAX without the AS codeshare?
They brought that to the merger, along with A330 and B744 flying fed by those flights. Those are "super premium" jobs that wouldn't exist without the feed, and you've said yourself that it would be a fools mission to replicate organically what AS provides.
They brought that to the merger, along with A330 and B744 flying fed by those flights. Those are "super premium" jobs that wouldn't exist without the feed, and you've said yourself that it would be a fools mission to replicate organically what AS provides.
I disagree with your assertion that we can expect lower lows. I disagree with your position that scope hasn't gotten it's due diligence.
I still assert that the majority of the large DCI flying could be done for the same out of pocket expense that DAL pays these DCI carriers. Add in the margins and we could do it for our book rates and DAL would gain the continuity of service that a World Class airline needs and its passengers should expect.
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It makes sense that with a system overcapacity (supply side) the solution is smaller, more efficient jets that carry smaller groups to more specific destinations.
I partly blame the FAA for issuing so many 121 certificates. For awhile the FAA wasn't issuing new 135 certificates due to a lack of staffing to regulate that community. I have no idea how many airlines are in the US, it goes against the grain of capitalism to stop issuing new 121 certs. However, it would eventually self correct as the more efficient carriers survived. There is just too much overhead on this industry to ever get ahead and stay there as a company. In order to extract more from our careers at Delta, we need Delta to win. In order for Delta to win we have to inch and stay ahead.
Everytime a legacy builds a profitable route, a LCC rolls in and trims the profits.
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As I've said before, the Joint Standing Committee has been meeting, mostly in conjunction with Delta MEC meetings or other ALPA events (Safety week, Fee for Departure). What, if anything, comes out of those meetings is for those respective MEC's to communicate.
Mesaba is looking at furloughs.
Correction... Mesaba IS furloughing. 110 pilots. Just received another reduction notice last week. 55 more to go (voluntary furloughs).
Correction... Mesaba IS furloughing. 110 pilots. Just received another reduction notice last week. 55 more to go (voluntary furloughs).
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