Any "Latest & Greatest" about Delta?
11-19-2014 | 12:22 PM
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I dislike RJs as much as the next guy, but they're also adding flying on mainline airplanes to Atlanta, Salt Lake, Anchorage and others. Coupled with hiring and a rumored wide body order, the cup isn't half empty, especially compared with years past when this airline was nearly dead.
11-19-2014 | 12:24 PM
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From: A320 Left seat
Seattle to Denver, Boise, Sitka, Ketchikan, and Sacramento. All on RJ's.
Congrats to my DCI brethren on all the new Seattle flying! We will need someone to feed our upcoming JV partner widebodies, and it looks like you are the winning bidder. Gotta admit, we can't have that many people flying into these little places like Grand Forks, Denver, Minot, Sacramento...etc.
To my mainline friends, remember, the regional model is dead and bottom end scope doesn't matter.
Congrats to my DCI brethren on all the new Seattle flying! We will need someone to feed our upcoming JV partner widebodies, and it looks like you are the winning bidder. Gotta admit, we can't have that many people flying into these little places like Grand Forks, Denver, Minot, Sacramento...etc.
To my mainline friends, remember, the regional model is dead and bottom end scope doesn't matter.
How long have you been here? We have to use RJ's to develop these routes. If the demand is there, we will put mainline aircraft on the routes. The RJ's are saving our bacon. Without RJ feed Delta would go out of business.
I think I covered them all.
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11-19-2014 | 12:25 PM
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You said it. I commute now from SFO to LAX and have been using the shuttle operated by Compass quite a bit. I sat around the LAX terminal waiting to go home when I realized that Compass flies a bunch of our people out of LAX. Places like Dallas, Austin, Seattle, SF, Portland and several more. Other airlines are using A320s and 737s to similar destinations in the West. I even rode an American 757 from LAX to SFO. United is using 737-900s to do that route. There is definitely something wrong with letting a "regional" partner do all this flying from LAX.
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11-19-2014 | 12:26 PM
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Well, it's my one day to do the health plan evaluator and try to dump the coverage awards for December.
Anyone else figure the HSA puts the current balance from the HRA out of reach as "post deductible" ? Meaning, you aren't likely to be able to use it unless you max out the family deductible.
Sticking with the HRA you can still use reward dollars from dollar 1.
Everyone tells me the HSA is a better deal, but the single family deductible and "post deductible" treatment of your carry over makes the plan effectively $2,800 more ($200 premium + $2,600 I'd have to fund).
What am I missing?
Anyone else figure the HSA puts the current balance from the HRA out of reach as "post deductible" ? Meaning, you aren't likely to be able to use it unless you max out the family deductible.
Sticking with the HRA you can still use reward dollars from dollar 1.
Everyone tells me the HSA is a better deal, but the single family deductible and "post deductible" treatment of your carry over makes the plan effectively $2,800 more ($200 premium + $2,600 I'd have to fund).
What am I missing?
11-19-2014 | 12:30 PM
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We're not saying the cup is half empty, I think we're more concerned with getting these flights back to mainline. I JS'd the other night with a Compass crew and they were awesome. I'd like to see the E-175 upgraded to a 717 or something similar(meaning new) and bring all the good Compass people to mainline. The passengers don't even know they are on another airline. I talked to a woman next to me and she was surprised when I told her.
I've said it before and I'll say it again...the biggest mistake DALPA and Lee Moak made during the merger was not rolling Compass up in the deal! We would have removed any risk of RJ scope degradation by adding the E170/175 to the mainline fleet, going forward. I would have been happy to fly the E170 for mainline.
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11-19-2014 | 12:35 PM
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I've said it before and I'll say it again...the biggest mistake DALPA and Lee Moak made during the merger was not rolling Compass up in the deal! We would have removed any risk of RJ scope degradation by adding the E170/175 to the mainline fleet, going forward. I would have been happy to fly the E170 for mainline.
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11-19-2014 | 12:35 PM
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Well, it's my one day to do the health plan evaluator and try to dump the coverage awards for December.
Anyone else figure the HSA puts the current balance from the HRA out of reach as "post deductible" ? Meaning, you aren't likely to be able to use it unless you max out the family deductible.
Sticking with the HRA you can still use reward dollars from dollar 1.
Everyone tells me the HSA is a better deal, but the single family deductible and "post deductible" treatment of your carry over makes the plan effectively $2,800 more ($200 premium + $2,600 I'd have to fund).
What am I missing?
Anyone else figure the HSA puts the current balance from the HRA out of reach as "post deductible" ? Meaning, you aren't likely to be able to use it unless you max out the family deductible.
Sticking with the HRA you can still use reward dollars from dollar 1.
Everyone tells me the HSA is a better deal, but the single family deductible and "post deductible" treatment of your carry over makes the plan effectively $2,800 more ($200 premium + $2,600 I'd have to fund).
What am I missing?
11-19-2014 | 01:00 PM
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We're not saying the cup is half empty, I think we're more concerned with getting these flights back to mainline. I JS'd the other night with a Compass crew and they were awesome. I'd like to see the E-175 upgraded to a 717 or something similar(meaning new) and bring all the good Compass people to mainline. The passengers don't even know they are on another airline. I talked to a woman next to me and she was surprised when I told her.
11-19-2014 | 01:40 PM
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