Maybe. Still a lot of capacity to cut all the sudden.

My guess that the new Asia/Pacific strategy is much less US-Narita flying and more point to point. Both out of SEA and to a lesser extent DTW.

 

12 777FO positions posted and 31 awarded.

 

It's tough to tell if they added 777 FOs, but if they did without adding captains, it means more 3 man stuff...not so good. Parking 744s early lends credence to the 10 used 777-300s rumor. One can hope.

I guess bainite counted, but idk if he counted the guys that bid off.

 

Plug in SLC is now a June newhire. Plug in SEA is an '08 hire!

 

With respect to the 747, last week Delta’s Network and Finance teams completed a re-evaluation of options to improve our international performance.**This analysis resulted in a decision to retire three 747-400 aircraft by the end of September, and an additional 747 before the end of the year. When we see opportunities to make the right long-term decisions for our customers, employees and the Company’s profitability, we make them as quickly as possible — consistent with the principle that “speed wins” as described in Rules of the Road.**By taking this step, we have the opportunity to re-gauge some capacity, primarily to help improve the Pacific entity’s performance.**Because of the accelerated 747 retirements, we have not awarded any of the posted 747 vacancies on this AE.**We will not, however, displace any 747 pilots in 2014.**We are also actively assessing options to reduce the need for any 747 Captain displacements in 2015 due to the accelerated retirement of these four aircraft.**We have notified the Association of these developments, and look forward to engaging in a discussion on mitigating displacements. More detail about our overall Asia-Pacific strategy will be shared company-wide this week. Please stay tuned.

 

They are delayed. Still getting 4 next year but first one will be on May assuming that airbus does not have more issues.

 

This is why I don't pay attention to AE's anymore. They are never as good or bad as they seem. Movement in my category is virtually non-existant.

 

I can think of a pretty quick way to pick that capacity right up. I don't think any of us are going to like it though.

 

It looks like they had 5 extra 777 FO's coming to ATL.

Plus, I didn't think they were supposed to add ANY 777 FO's in DTW. (Like they weren't going to backfill). It look's like they added 14?

 

How are you guys seeing the results? Where are they posted.

Scoop