Originally Posted by ilinipilot (Post 950821)

please help
I just got off of IOE and my phone rang this morning, from delta crew. I answered it and it was an automated message about inverse assignments. I then hung up, am I now junior manned, or do you have to talk to a scheduler to be inverse assigned.thanks

Originally Posted by bluejuice71 (Post 950832)

Delta & Air France-KLM considering bid for Virgin Atlantic?

Originally Posted by Carl Spackler (Post 950247)

She's a beauty...ain't she.

Carl

Originally Posted by ilinipilot (Post 950821)

please help
I just got off of IOE and my phone rang this morning, from delta crew. I answered it and it was an automated message about inverse assignments. I then hung up, am I now junior manned, or do you have to talk to a scheduler to be inverse assigned.thanks

Originally Posted by iFlyer (Post 950841)

...to join SkyTeam Alliance

Originally Posted by Bucking Bar (Post 950926)

Source:AvHearald.com

A Delta Airlines Boeing 737-800, flight DL-1846 from Fort Lauderdale,FL to Minneapolis,MN (USA) with 140 passengers, was climbing out of Fort Lauderdale's runway 09L when the crew reported the failure of the left hand engine and levelled off at 3000 feet. An aircraft waiting for departure reported seeing parts dropping off the aircraft prompting the tower to order a runway inspection with nothing found on the runway. The Delta Boeing returned to Fort Lauderdale's runway 09L for a safe landing about 17 minutes after departure and vacated the runway.

Runway 09L was closed for about 10 minutes.

Aircraft parts were found near the Port Everglades Cargo Entry Point.

Witnesses on the ground reported a huge bang from the engine following by parts dropping off the aircraft.

Originally Posted by chuck416 (Post 950699)

+1....No Doubt. NWA must've bought all the fleet's paint at a Sherman-Williams close-out sale. Most of our old stuff was ugly as a bowling shoe. Current scheme is far better

Originally Posted by KC10 FATboy (Post 950963)

Call me crazy, I really liked the last Northwest livery. The metallic silver is very nice. In fact, I wish Delta would keep the current livery, but change the pale boring white to the NWA metallic silver.

Originally Posted by FlyingViking (Post 950743)

Is it true that they put the Delta logo that high up in order to fit "connection" underneath it?

Originally Posted by LeineLodge (Post 950923)

When are the PCS runs? I thought it was 7am, noon, and 6pm Mecca time.

Are swap-with-the-pot requests processed at these same times? I got a WS during the early PCS run, but my swap wasn't even processed. Am I missing something?

Do they always run right at the scheduled times, or does it vary day to day? I figured the noon run would have happened by now, but it's 12:35 here in ATL.

Thanks in advance:confused:

Originally Posted by iFlyer (Post 950841)

...to join SkyTeam Alliance

Originally Posted by RockyBoy (Post 951077)

I think there is more to the story than getting them to just join the SkyTeam Alliance. Could they be bought and operated independently within the AF/KLM group like KLM has been since AF bought them? When we hire Goldman Sachs as an advisor, there is more going on than a JV and getting another airline to join the Alliance.

Originally Posted by LeineLodge (Post 951090)

If what you're hinting at is even possible, we should be very concerned. Where is this posted that Delta/AF/KLM are looking at VA? I'd like to read a little more about this?

Is there a hole in our scope section that would/could allow this situation or would DALPA have to sign off on a VA JV/Codeshare?

Originally Posted by LeineLodge (Post 951090)

If what you're hinting at is even possible, we should be very concerned. Where is this posted that Delta/AF/KLM are looking at VA? I'd like to read a little more about this?

Is there a hole in our scope section that would/could allow this situation or would DALPA have to sign off on a VA JV/Codeshare?

Originally Posted by LeineLodge (Post 951091)

I just re-read the first post on this topic, and saw that it is Virgin Atlantic, not Virgin America. I'm a little relieved, as I was envisioning this as an attack on domestic narrowbody flying, especially out west.

Still not sure about a JV with Virgin Atlantic. I guess the idea would be to gain more of a presence in London???

Originally Posted by LeineLodge (Post 951090)

If what you're hinting at is even possible, we should be very concerned. Where is this posted that Delta/AF/KLM are looking at VA? I'd like to read a little more about this?

Is there a hole in our scope section that would/could allow this situation or would DALPA have to sign off on a VA JV/Codeshare?

Originally Posted by RockyBoy (Post 951092)

Bloomberg reported it this morning.

Air France, Delta Consider Bid for Virgin Atlantic, Times Says - Bloomberg

Originally Posted by buzzpat (Post 951113)

I've been saying this for years, and I think ACL has as well,....we're ALL gonna be Air France one day. Which, I suppose, means we can break out the berets and stop taking showers.

Originally Posted by RunFast (Post 951135)

Saw a 73 on the tarmac at FLL unloading pax this morning. News ticker says Delta had an engine failure inflight.

Any words?

Originally Posted by georgetg (Post 951141)

you guys are looking too far ahead:

The 800 pound gorilla is the integration with alitalia currently underway.

2 possibilities:

Alitalia transatlantic flying is considered as a share of the current af-klm/dal jv.
This would be good for dal pilots because any transatlantic flying done by alitalia would be added to the afklm "pot" and would be matched 1-for-1 by additional delta flying.

Alitalia transatlantic flying is added to current af-klm/dal jv.
This would be bad for dal pilots because the 50%-50% ratio would be skewed to reflect additional flying on the part of af-klm-alitalia. Delta pilots would probably maintain status quo in terms of atlantic asms, but this would be ceding "share" in the transatlantic flying.

The outcome of the alitalia integration would probably spell out how delta pilots fare in the upcoming virgina australia/dal jv. A route where i'm afraid we are past the 50%-50% balance in favor of vaustralia....

Cheers
george

Originally Posted by shiznit (Post 951139)

It actually would give us a good bit of leverage if V-Atl. came into skyteam and DL/AFKL wanted them in on the trans-atlantic JV. time will tell.

Originally Posted by georgetg (Post 951151)

As a Delta pilot I wouldn't want VAustralia to expand past the Pacific playground...
They are up to 5 777-300ER, at least 2 of those flying to the US and we have one 777-200LR a day in theater...

It will be hard to push for an even 50%-50% split on Pacific ASMs with the current balance of ASMs...

Cheers
George

Originally Posted by shiznit (Post 951140)

Bravo Zulu to the pilots. (or "...to the pilot." as the media would say:mad:)

Originally Posted by Nosmo King (Post 951153)

You must be excluding all the transpac and Japan interport flying that we do, that is quite a bit of hours and we are just now adding the HND flights to the previous inaugurals of DTW-HKG and DTW-ICN and DTW-PVG.

Now if you are talking about SOUTH Pacific flying, then I see your point.

Originally Posted by RockyBoy (Post 951095)

It is to compete against the AA/BA JV that was approved. It's been in the news for awhile, but not quite like it was worded this morning. I was thinking to see a JV, but when we hire Goldman there is more than a JV going on.

Originally Posted by unit monster (Post 951235)

Question: Is there an instance the gate agent is not supposed to assign first class seats to non-revs? I've seen this happen a few times, but only on domestic 777s.

Originally Posted by iFlyer (Post 951201)

Yes, it's complicated as there are lots of parts to the equation: Richard Branson owns about half, Singapore owns the other 49% which they bought in 1999. They might be interested in selling. Etihad is interested in buying. Lufthansa/United would like to play spoiler. Delta and AF/KLM would like them as a Skyteam partner for UK/LHR flying and access to compete with AA and BA (who is merging with Iberia from Spain), but might try to pull off an equity stake JV to keep it out of others hands.

Virgin had been fighting the BA/AA alliance for years, and now finally lost. It's time for Branson to fold this hand and play the next game, or cash in his chips and go home.

Lots of chess pieces moving here...