Sounds like a bad investment to me.

 

If we're out of balance already, and we're pulling down more over the Atlantic (even if its just a reduction in growth, its still a capacity transfer away from there) and AF/KLM is adding a 380 per day to MIA (a lot of block hours) I think the writing is on the wall. They have no intention to "keep their deals" other than assuming we will just excuse the deal in the first place. Perhaps for money. Maybe that'll be their first move after another bad faith zero percent raise opener. OK, OK, a COLA raise plus a couple percent, but only if…


I agree with you I want the block hour/ESK's and not just for a moment but for years. There needs to be a stick for noncompliance though.

As an aside, if we morph into a AF/KLM/VA hub feeder and continue the pulldown that started from the Great ER Purge of a couple years ago, even if we split the block hour/ESK's evenly, or even if we get 51.5%, but we're only splitting the hub to hub and they get a ton of block hour growth from their hubs to destinations we currently serve, are those block hours/ESK's counted in the formula? Or is that a free way for them to transfer a ton of capacity to our "partners" without using our metal or pilots? Yes, there would be some growth in US-EU hub hours/ESK's to do that, but there would be a lot more hours/ESK's lost than gained if all those hours/ESK's suddenly went off the books because it was considered EU-EU flying.

 

Or just check on the company provided computers in ops.


What?

Commuting is a choice, not only for commuting by air, but living anywhere more than 10 or 15 minutes away.

 

Possibly.

Keeping in mind they could:

*Infect JB

*Infect AS

*Blow shareholder money on a failed IndyAir II experiment

*Sell the orders/options to airlines around the globe

*Cancel the orders/options and likely pay little to no penalty since they likely were fantasy press release orders to begin with, unless one of the above options can somehow materialize

*Sit back and hope legacy airlines figure out how to gut their scope clauses to go for the money shot that's somehow eluded them all these years. Oh right, ASA and Mesaba flew Bach jets once and CMR almost bought Spirit and/or TWA, so there's that.



Of all their options, Mesabah's worst case scenario is by far the least likely.

 

I never ACK the trip, and they never called me.

 

I'm surprised no one has commented on the ALPA contact comparison yet. Glad they added in FedEx and UPS in the comparison. Still no foreign airlines though.

 

Yes, but as soon as they take delivery of such aircraft, they can no longer operate as a DCI carrier, with the exception of Republic.

The remedy for scope non compliance is the written financial penalties in the contract(which there are none), or in certain circumstances, a merger with SLI.

 

I know we get a very good deal on MS Office, but does anyone know if we get a similar deal on Windows? I'm looking to do a boot camp install on my mac.

Thanks

 

Alabama may have gold in tar hills, but they also have dented helmets! Especially the end caps.

 

That is exactly how it worked for years and years,on reserve for up to three pieces of equipment,( DC6,7- CV880- CV440) somehow most everything got covered. Many times I thought about keeping my uniform in a phone booth.... sorta like Superman.