Any "Latest & Greatest" about Delta?
08-27-2018 | 12:29 PM
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Just curious. The rollout of the 717 was predicated on remapping our regional airlines. That required Delta to renegotiate numerous long term contracts. Do you think the regionals would have agreed to simply slash their fleets absent a agreement to allow them to bring on bigger equipment?
Delta wanted to remove 50 seat a/c anyway. That contract was a scope give, plane and simple. In exchange for reducing the number of planes which they already wanted gone, they got to add more of the planes they wanted.
08-27-2018 | 12:56 PM
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08-27-2018 | 01:06 PM
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08-27-2018 | 01:24 PM
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That's exactly the kind of rumor I expect to hear going into negotiations. We don't buy and sell airplanes, management does. The fleet plans are what they are, and will be what they will be. I seem to remeber a fleet of 717s, E190s, and 737s contigent upon PWA signing. NOT.
Exactly. This is a non-issue, why are you even bringing it up? We have seen the folly of taking aircraft orders into account when voting on a contract
Management will buy whatever fleets they deem most beneficial to DAL when and where they want - we have zero influence, and now hopefully even the "appearance" of the Pilot group having influence is a thing of the past.
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08-27-2018 | 02:24 PM
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08-27-2018 | 02:42 PM
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That's exactly the kind of rumor I expect to hear going into negotiations. We don't buy and sell airplanes, management does. The fleet plans are what they are, and will be what they will be. I seem to remeber a fleet of 717s, E190s, and 737s contigent upon PWA signing. NOT.
No kidding. I remember a negotiating committee member responding to my comment at the DTW TA2012 roadshow that management wants the 717 regardless if the TA passed. His response, "If we vote down the TA, management will heavy check the CRJ200's, retrofit new interiors, and fly them past 2025." Yes, that was his actual response. I couldn't believe his answer; I felt as if I were talking to someone from Mars.
08-27-2018 | 04:14 PM
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08-27-2018 | 04:40 PM
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08-27-2018 | 04:47 PM
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08-27-2018 | 05:36 PM
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No kidding. I remember a negotiating committee member responding to my comment at the DTW TA2012 roadshow that management wants the 717 regardless if the TA passed. His response, "If we vote down the TA, management will heavy check the CRJ200's, retrofit new interiors, and fly them past 2025." Yes, that was his actual response. I couldn't believe his answer; I felt as if I were talking to someone from Mars.
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