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Old 02-19-2015 | 08:44 PM
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Originally Posted by flyallnite
I've got to hand it to Richard Quest at CNN, he really kicked up a $h(t storm with the ME3 carriers. Some media are reporting an apology, but it's more of a 'sorry if the truth hurts', love, DL'. Now you've got their CEO's on the air spouting anger and indignation, but not exactly answering the questions raised. Blogs are popping up relating to discriminatory and human rights issues at those carriers. Sully is weighing in on Euro LCC's and Ireland is defending their sketchy business oversight regulations. Lines are being drawn. Gloves are coming off. Trade regulations are being challenged. Let your governmental representatives know where you stand.
Emirates rejects Delta’s apology over terrorism remarks
Delta’s chief executive Richard Anderson associated the 9/11 terrorist attack with Gulf airlines this week
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February 19, 2015
Dubai: Emirates has rejected an apology from Delta Air Lines, one of America’s major carriers, after its chief executive, Richard Anderson, this week associated the 9/11 terrorist attack with Gulf airlines.
“We believe that the statements made this week by [Mr] Anderson were deliberately crafted and delivered for specific effect. This brings into question his credibility as a CEO of a US public listed company, as well as the integrity of the submission which his airline has submitted to the US authorities,” an Emirates spokesperson told Gulf News in an emailed statement on Thursday.
Delta’s Anderson told CNN on Monday he saw a “great irony” in UAE airlines criticising bankruptcy laws as state aid after they were accessed by US domestic carriers following 9/11 since most of the hijackers came from the region.
Delta later apologised for the remark.
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Responding to Anderson’s initial comments, Emirates President Tim Clark told CNN on Wednesday he was “a little bit concerned that [Mr] Anderson crossed the line in some of the statements he made with regard to what went on with regard to 9/11.”
“I know that has caused great offence in this part of the world, and I’m sure it will be dealt with at the governmental and state level,” he added.
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Delta — along with American Airlines and United Airlines — are pushing the US government to change its open skies agreement after they presented the government with a 55-page document that they claim shows the major Gulf airlines — Emirates, Etihad Airways and Qatar Airways — have benefited from $40 billion (Dh147 billion) in state aid since 2004. The document has not been made public.
Clark told CNN the claims were “unsubstantiated”. He also refuted the claims last week in an emailed statement that was sent to the media, including Gulf News. Shaikh Ahmad Bin Saeed Al Maktoum, President of Dubai Civil Aviation and Chairman and CEO of Emirates airline and Group, told Bloomberg last week the US airlines should offer a better service if the want to compete with the Gulf.
Qatar Airways chief, Akbar Al Baker, has also responded to the allegations telling CNN on Tuesday “[Mr] Anderson should be doing his job improving and competing with us instead of just crying wolf for his shortcomings in the way the airline is run.”
The Delta boss “should be ashamed to bring the issue of terrorism to try to cover his inefficiency in running an airline,” he added.
Etihad Airways is yet to comment on the matter.
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Old 02-19-2015 | 09:25 PM
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Originally Posted by Carl Spackler
We may have to promote him to an ALPA General manager position to pay him that kind of money.

Carl
I read the update. There's a DPA thread for this down with the I Love Heidi bumper stickers in Union Talk for you, but I don't believe the GM gets paid that, it's more 990 crap. Didn't someone post the job opening a while back? Isn't she like an astronaut or something? You might also want to take your self proclaimed business accumen over to Tim's house and explain to him what a liability means versus a debt on all these fancy tax forms. I think you might find that chart has a gross error of around $112,000,000 in debt that doesn't exist. They might want to consider hiring an accountant to help with the fancy form things. Also, didn't Timmy file a DOL complaint last year about fraudulent tax returns and a complaint with a Congressman? I assume that led to more imagined malfeasance?
Old 02-19-2015 | 09:45 PM
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Originally Posted by iceman49
Emirates rejects Delta’s apology
They're Western savvy enough to know that when in doubt, play the oppressed victim card. They are completely attempting to gloss over their logical conclusion that US airlines should have pretty much just liquidated after 9-11 and they could just be doing it all…provided we pay them to take our jets and borrow from them to defend them at our expense.

An ironic [victim] response given the building exposure and pressure on their modern day nuevo medieval labor standards, let alone their megalomaniac business model and merchant marine ambitions.

The only thing we should be sorry for is not limiting them to the number of flights per day that our airlines do to their actual country, not trying to shut down the facist "Bank of Boeing" widebody subsidies sooner, and not changing our tax law to eliminate the expat loophole that they use as a primary recruitment tool against us in an effort to poach our industry out from under us.
Old 02-19-2015 | 11:55 PM
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Originally Posted by gloopy
They're Western savvy enough to know that when in doubt, play the oppressed victim card. They are completely attempting to gloss over their logical conclusion that US airlines should have pretty much just liquidated after 9-11 and they could just be doing it all…provided we pay them to take our jets and borrow from them to defend them at our expense.

An ironic [victim] response given the building exposure and pressure on their modern day nuevo medieval labor standards, let alone their megalomaniac business model and merchant marine ambitions.

The only thing we should be sorry for is not limiting them to the number of flights per day that our airlines do to their actual country, not trying to shut down the facist "Bank of Boeing" widebody subsidies sooner, and not changing our tax law to eliminate the expat loophole that they use as a primary recruitment tool against us in an effort to poach our industry out from under us.
Richard Anderson.

Old 02-20-2015 | 01:57 AM
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Originally Posted by forgot to bid
Richard Anderson.

We also need APC to get rid of the incredibly annoying Emirites ad placed where your thumb can't help but hit it when using a IPAD!
Old 02-20-2015 | 02:30 AM
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Originally Posted by iceman49
Emirates rejects Delta’s apology over terrorism remarks
Delta’s chief executive Richard Anderson associated the 9/11 terrorist attack with Gulf airlines this week
Staff Report
February 19, 2015
Dubai: Emirates has rejected an apology from Delta Air Lines, one of America’s major carriers, after its chief executive, Richard Anderson, this week associated the 9/11 terrorist attack with Gulf airlines.
“We believe that the statements made this week by [Mr] Anderson were deliberately crafted and delivered for specific effect. This brings into question his credibility as a CEO of a US public listed company, as well as the integrity of the submission which his airline has submitted to the US authorities,” an Emirates spokesperson told Gulf News in an emailed statement on Thursday.
Delta’s Anderson told CNN on Monday he saw a “great irony” in UAE airlines criticising bankruptcy laws as state aid after they were accessed by US domestic carriers following 9/11 since most of the hijackers came from the region.
Delta later apologised for the remark.
Related Stories
CEO lambasted for linking Gulf carriers to 9/11
Responding to Anderson’s initial comments, Emirates President Tim Clark told CNN on Wednesday he was “a little bit concerned that [Mr] Anderson crossed the line in some of the statements he made with regard to what went on with regard to 9/11.”
“I know that has caused great offence in this part of the world, and I’m sure it will be dealt with at the governmental and state level,” he added.
Document
Delta — along with American Airlines and United Airlines — are pushing the US government to change its open skies agreement after they presented the government with a 55-page document that they claim shows the major Gulf airlines — Emirates, Etihad Airways and Qatar Airways — have benefited from $40 billion (Dh147 billion) in state aid since 2004. The document has not been made public.
Clark told CNN the claims were “unsubstantiated”. He also refuted the claims last week in an emailed statement that was sent to the media, including Gulf News. Shaikh Ahmad Bin Saeed Al Maktoum, President of Dubai Civil Aviation and Chairman and CEO of Emirates airline and Group, told Bloomberg last week the US airlines should offer a better service if the want to compete with the Gulf.
Qatar Airways chief, Akbar Al Baker, has also responded to the allegations telling CNN on Tuesday “[Mr] Anderson should be doing his job improving and competing with us instead of just crying wolf for his shortcomings in the way the airline is run.”
The Delta boss “should be ashamed to bring the issue of terrorism to try to cover his inefficiency in running an airline,” he added.
Etihad Airways is yet to comment on the matter.
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Old 02-20-2015 | 02:59 AM
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Originally Posted by scambo1
It doesn't end well regardless.
Not sure I would have brought up terrorism. I probably would have brought up a lack of labor laws. Talk about how employees are held against their will and paid wages equivalent to slavery. Talk about how a 3 miilon person state has more wide bodies on order than the entire US airline industry has planes and ask how it's possible to pay for these aircraft if there are no government subsidies. I'm not CEO though. It's not easy to answer questions like that under fire when you have seconds to come up with your thoughts.
Old 02-20-2015 | 03:16 AM
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DELTA S15 Long-Haul Operation Changes as of 16FEB15
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Update at 0800GMT 16FEB15

As of 16FEB15, latest changes to DELTA’s planned Summer 2015 Long-Haul operation, effective 29MAR15, as follow. Additional changes remain highly possible.

Atlanta – Dublin eff 28MAR15 Boeing 767-300ER continues operation, replacing previously planned A330-200 (767 also operated in S14)
Atlanta – Dusseldorf 12APR15 – 07SEP15 767-400ER replaces -300ER (Previously effective from 16JUL15)
Atlanta – Paris CDG Planned operational aircraft as follow, from 28MAR15 (S14 was 2 daily 767-400ER in peak season)
DL082/083 767-300ER (-400ER from 06APR15 to 01JUN15 and from 16JUL15 to 07SEP15)
DL084/085 A330-300 (Previously planned 777-200LR)

Atlanta – Rome 22MAY15 – 31JUL15 Increase from 7 to 11 wekly
DL258 ATL1544 – 0730+1FCO 76W x147
DL240 ATL1816 – 0950+1FCO 333 D

DL259 FCO0915 – 1435ATL 76W x125
DL241 FCO1215 – 1727ATL 333 D

Atlanta – Sao Paulo 2 daily service operated by Boeing 767-300ER, compared to 1 daily each of -300ER and -400ER in NS14
Detroit – Rome Planned A330-300 service from 16JUL15 to 07SEP15 is cancelled. Latest aircraft operation include:
01MAY15 – 31MAY15 Boeing 767-300ER
01JUN15 – 24OCT15 Boeing 767-400ER

Honolulu – Tokyo Narita 31JUL15 – 30AUG15 Increase from 2 to 3 daily, 3rd daily DL603/604 operated by 767-300ER
Los Angeles – Tokyo Narita eff 10JUL15 Boeing 777-200ER replaces -200LR, 1 daily
New York JFK – Athens 01JUN15 – 07SEP15 Increase from 7 to 12 weekly (Previously planned 11 weekly)
New York JFK – Malaga Seasonal service in Summer 2015 operates from 04JUN15 to 29SEP15. Service increases from 5 to 7 weekly from 29JUN15, Boeing 757 operation
New York JFK – Moscow Sheremetyevo eff 29MAR15 Frequencies in Summer season reduced from 7 to 5 weekly, Boeing 767-300ER operation
New York JFK – Pisa 01JUL15 – 30AUG15 Service increases from 4 to 6 weekly (5 weekly from 31AUG15 to 06SEP15), Boeing 757 operation
New York JFK – Reykjavik 04JUN15 – 30AUG15 Boeing 757-300 replaces -200
New York JFK – Stockholm 15JUN15 – 30AUG15 Service increases from 4 to 5 weekly, Boeing 757 operation
Seattle – Seoul Incheon Latest operational aircraft changes include:
29MAR15 – 31MAY15 Boeing 767-300ER
01JUN15 – 24OCT15 Airbus A330-300 (Previously planned -200 service from June to August 2015)

Seattle – Tokyo Narita Latest operational aircraft changes include:
29MAR15 – 06APR15 Airbus A330-300
07APR15 – 31MAY15 Boeing 767-300ER
01JUN15 – 06SEP15 Boeing 777-200ER (-200LR on 01JUN15)
07SEP15 – 23OCT15 Airbus A330-300

Tokyo Narita – Bangkok Latest operational aircraft changes include:
29MAR15 – 06APR15 Boeing 767-300ER
07APR15 – 31MAY15 Boeing 777-200LR (-200ER on 31MAY15)
01JUN15 – 30JUN15 Boeing 767-300ER
01JUL15 – 31AUG15 Boeing 777-200ER
01SEP15 – 24OCT15 Boeing 767-300ER

Tokyo Narita – Shanghai Pu Dong eff 10JUL15 Boeing 777-200LR replaces 767-300ER, daily service
Tokyo Narita – Singapore Latest operational aircraft changes include:
29MAR15 – 09JUL15 Boeing 777-200ER
10JUL15 – 24OCT15 Boeing 767-300ER

Tokyo Narita – Taipei Taoyuan Latest operational aircraft changes include:
29MAR15 – 06APR15 A330-300
07APR15 – 21MAY15 Boeing 767-300ER
22MAY15 – 30JUN15 Boeing 777-200ER
01JUL15 – 31AUG15 Boeing 767-300ER (Previous plan: 777-200ER)
01SEP15 – 24OCT15 Boeing 777-200ER

Previously reported changes:
Amsterdam – Mumbai eff 29MAR15 Daily service cancelled
Atlanta – Amsterdam Planned operational aircraft as follow, from 28MAR15 (S14 was 2 daily 767-300ER and 1 daily A330-300)
DL070/071 A330-300
DL072/073 747-400
DL074/075 767-400ER

Detroit – Amsterdam Planned operational aircraft as follow, from 28MAR15 (S14 was 3 daily A330-300 and 1 daily 777-200ER)
DL132/133 A330-200
DL134/135 747-400
DL136/139 A330-300
DL138/137 767-400ER

Detroit – Frankfurt eff 28MAR15 Boeing 767-300ER replaces -400ER
Detroit – Paris CDG eff 28MAR15 Boeing 747-400 replaces A330-300 in S14
Los Angeles – Shanghai Pu Dong eff 09JUL15 NEW 1 daily 777-200LR service
New York JFK – Amsterdam eff 28MAR15 2nd daily service restored (2 daily 767-300ER in S15)
New York JFK – Istanbul Seasonal service in Summer 2015 operates with A330-300, replacing 767-300ER in S14. Service operates from 16JUN15 to 06SEP15
Philadelphia – London Heathrow eff 07APR15 NEW 1 daily 757 service
Salt Lake City – Amsterdam eff 01MAY15 NEW 5 weekly 767-300ER service, daily from 18MAY15
Seattle – Paris CDG eff 28MAR15 A330-300 replaces -200 in S14

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Old 02-20-2015 | 03:29 AM
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Originally Posted by hockeypilot44
Not sure I would have brought up terrorism. I probably would have brought up a lack of labor laws. Talk about how employees are held against their will and paid wages equivalent to slavery. Talk about how a 3 miilon person state has more wide bodies on order than the entire US airline industry has planes and ask how it's possible to pay for these aircraft if there are no government subsidies. I'm not CEO though. It's not easy to answer questions like that under fire when you have seconds to come up with your thoughts.
The 911 terrorist attacks changed the industry, probably forever. The terrorists did come from that region. The attacks either contributed to or were causal in bankruptcies. The US airlines are critical to "the American way of life" protected by the constitution.

I find it ironic that the Emirates CEO, an expat, is such a sellout that he calls into question the comment.

Was it politically correct? Who cares. Is it the truth? Absolutely.

Remember the ditty about people in Germany who did nothing..."And then they came for me."

Real life is real.
Old 02-20-2015 | 03:59 AM
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Originally Posted by sailingfun
We also need APC to get rid of the incredibly annoying Emirites ad placed where your thumb can't help but hit it when using a IPAD!
Or just install adblock and don't see any ads on any web page.
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