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01-15-2010, 04:10 PM
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Originally Posted by DLpilot
Last year, I had the same situation when my daughter was being admitted for surgery. The hospital wanted me to write a check for $1000 to cover the deductible. I had the lady at the hospital call the number for UHC on the back of the card. I had already explained to her about HRA dollars, but she had never heard of it. Anyways, after the hospital talked to UHC, I never paid a cent. The HRA dollars were put towards the deductible.
01-15-2010, 04:12 PM
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Originally Posted by DAL330drvr
JAL, Delta reach basic deal over comprehensive tie-up
JAL, Delta reach basic deal over comprehensive tie-up : Business : DAILY YOMIURI ONLINE (The Daily Yomiuri)
JAL, Delta reach basic deal over comprehensive tie-up : Business : DAILY YOMIURI ONLINE (The Daily Yomiuri)
Now where to?
Originally Posted by dragon
January 15, 2010
Delta is adding nine MD-90 aircraft purchased from China Eastern Airlines to its fleet, an acquisition that will make Delta the world’s second-largest operator of the aircraft.
Delta will receive the aircraft between February and July. Two additional MD-90s will be delivered from Boeing Capital, a division of the aircraft manufacturer, which will bring the total to 11 of the aircraft added to the fleet this year.
“Those MD-90s are quite flexible because they fit in our network,” said Hank Halter, Delta’s chief financial officer, at a recent event for Delta investors. “We’re not looking to grow capacity, but when there’s very inexpensive opportunities for lift, such as the MD-90, we’ll certainly consider it.”
The airplanes are the most efficient narrowbody aircraft in Delta’s fleet, Hank said, and provide a cost-effective tool for managing Delta’s capacity. The purchase will not add to Delta’s capacity, but will partially offset the reduction of DC-9s and regional jets in the fleet.
The current seating configuration for the aircraft is 150, with 12 in first class and 138 in coach. All of the jets will be upgraded with brand-new interiors before entering service.
Once the aircraft are received, Delta will have 28 MD-90s, the second-largest fleet in the world after Saudi Arabian Airlines, which has 29.
Delta is adding nine MD-90 aircraft purchased from China Eastern Airlines to its fleet, an acquisition that will make Delta the world’s second-largest operator of the aircraft.
Delta will receive the aircraft between February and July. Two additional MD-90s will be delivered from Boeing Capital, a division of the aircraft manufacturer, which will bring the total to 11 of the aircraft added to the fleet this year.
“Those MD-90s are quite flexible because they fit in our network,” said Hank Halter, Delta’s chief financial officer, at a recent event for Delta investors. “We’re not looking to grow capacity, but when there’s very inexpensive opportunities for lift, such as the MD-90, we’ll certainly consider it.”
The airplanes are the most efficient narrowbody aircraft in Delta’s fleet, Hank said, and provide a cost-effective tool for managing Delta’s capacity. The purchase will not add to Delta’s capacity, but will partially offset the reduction of DC-9s and regional jets in the fleet.
The current seating configuration for the aircraft is 150, with 12 in first class and 138 in coach. All of the jets will be upgraded with brand-new interiors before entering service.
Once the aircraft are received, Delta will have 28 MD-90s, the second-largest fleet in the world after Saudi Arabian Airlines, which has 29.
B) I'm going to have to print this off and put it in my flight kit so I can pull
it out when I mention we bought MD-90s and the "oh you naive new hire, let me tell you something about Delta, blah blah blah, they've been saying we'd buy MD-90s for years, blah blah blah, once I started a rumor that we were buying MD-90s then I sat back and waited for the news to come back and it did..."
Forgive my joy on so many levels.
01-15-2010, 04:13 PM
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Heyas,
Whatever the outcome, this is a major stake in the heart of AMRs Pacific presence.
They are going to be ****ed.
They can either:
1) Ignore Asia
2) Extract payback on Delta by crippling their feed.
3) Look to "purchase" Asia from someone else
4) 2 and 3.
If I were DAL, I would take every spare airplane in the desert and throw it in SEA/LAX domestically. Mirror ALKs feed into SEA and LAX. When AMR comes knocking, run the price up, then bail knowing you already had alternate feed in place. AMR then pays top dollar for nothing.
A buncha DC-9s are down in the desert.They're all paid for and gas is still relatively cheap. Top'em off, charge the battery, roll'em downhill and let the clutch out and now you GOT your feed to Asia.
Sigh...don't make me do all the thinking around here...
Nu
Whatever the outcome, this is a major stake in the heart of AMRs Pacific presence.
They are going to be ****ed.
They can either:
1) Ignore Asia
2) Extract payback on Delta by crippling their feed.
3) Look to "purchase" Asia from someone else
4) 2 and 3.
If I were DAL, I would take every spare airplane in the desert and throw it in SEA/LAX domestically. Mirror ALKs feed into SEA and LAX. When AMR comes knocking, run the price up, then bail knowing you already had alternate feed in place. AMR then pays top dollar for nothing.
A buncha DC-9s are down in the desert.They're all paid for and gas is still relatively cheap. Top'em off, charge the battery, roll'em downhill and let the clutch out and now you GOT your feed to Asia.
Sigh...don't make me do all the thinking around here...
Nu
01-15-2010, 04:20 PM
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New,
Dead on, as we've been saying all along. AMR is dead in Asia, and it just leaves us and United. Leaves AMR with a bunch of 777s with no where to fly them except an already over saturated Atlantic. Could see them dump a bunch of seats into South America? (I admit I know nothing about that region).
Boys, as Sink says, ANA/United is still a big shark in the water......but this is huge!
Ferd
PS Ferd <----------not frozen, looks like I may have lucked into something good not bidding the last AE
Dead on, as we've been saying all along. AMR is dead in Asia, and it just leaves us and United. Leaves AMR with a bunch of 777s with no where to fly them except an already over saturated Atlantic. Could see them dump a bunch of seats into South America? (I admit I know nothing about that region).
Boys, as Sink says, ANA/United is still a big shark in the water......but this is huge!
Ferd
PS Ferd <----------not frozen, looks like I may have lucked into something good not bidding the last AE
01-15-2010, 04:25 PM
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If the JAL news is true, and it turns out to be a major positive for DAL and DAL pilots, I think RA and company deserve major kudos.
Granted to some of you this is "ancient history", but when DAL bought Pan Am assets in bankruptcy court, Robert Crandall at AMR bid up the price substantially, driving up the price to the point it wasn't such a great deal.
However it would seem (preliminarily) that DAL out negotiated AMR as far as JAL is concerned.
Again this is historical perspective, but Halter's comments on the MD-90's "economy" are somewhat ironic considering DAL was the launch customer for the MD-90. IIRC, we had something like 55 firm orders and 60 options for MD-90's in the early to mid-nineties.
Of course it's a whole lot nicer to buy a low time aircraft for a fraction of it's original purchase price!
Granted to some of you this is "ancient history", but when DAL bought Pan Am assets in bankruptcy court, Robert Crandall at AMR bid up the price substantially, driving up the price to the point it wasn't such a great deal.
However it would seem (preliminarily) that DAL out negotiated AMR as far as JAL is concerned.
Again this is historical perspective, but Halter's comments on the MD-90's "economy" are somewhat ironic considering DAL was the launch customer for the MD-90. IIRC, we had something like 55 firm orders and 60 options for MD-90's in the early to mid-nineties.
Of course it's a whole lot nicer to buy a low time aircraft for a fraction of it's original purchase price!
01-15-2010, 04:27 PM
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Isn't that what dal did to pan.am
01-15-2010, 04:28 PM
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Connecting the dots and trying to hit ACL's softballs is harder than people know nu. So nu, you think, I'll wall paper with pictures.
01-15-2010, 04:31 PM
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I still think that DAL's money will be used one way or another.
Open-Skies and access to Haneda will make this worthwhile. I hope that the latter is there.
Open-Skies and access to Haneda will make this worthwhile. I hope that the latter is there.
01-15-2010, 04:32 PM
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Originally Posted by Ferd149
New,
Dead on, as we've been saying all along. AMR is dead in Asia, and it just leaves us and United. Leaves AMR with a bunch of 777s with no where to fly them except an already over saturated Atlantic. Could see them dump a bunch of seats into South America? (I admit I know nothing about that region).
Boys, as Sink says, ANA/United is still a big shark in the water......but this is huge!
Ferd
PS Ferd <----------not frozen, looks like I may have lucked into something good not bidding the last AE
Dead on, as we've been saying all along. AMR is dead in Asia, and it just leaves us and United. Leaves AMR with a bunch of 777s with no where to fly them except an already over saturated Atlantic. Could see them dump a bunch of seats into South America? (I admit I know nothing about that region).
Boys, as Sink says, ANA/United is still a big shark in the water......but this is huge!
Ferd
PS Ferd <----------not frozen, looks like I may have lucked into something good not bidding the last AE
Agree. I forgot:
5) Extract vengeance where you still have muscle. Namely SoAm. I'd expect to see AMR turn the screws there, and turn them hard. Its the only place that DAL isn't #1, and has the highest yields out of anywhere.
NYC and MIA are two of the best O&D for SoAM, and AMR has a lock on one, and MUCH better facilities and a good presence in the other. Plus UAL has a ton of unused route authority to SoAM (the old PamAm routes...AMR has the old Braniff/Eastern authorities), so by doing a UAL deal, they could get the PAC and lock up SoAM at the same time.
I now see the panic to get NYC into a state of non-shambles.
That may have been the genesis of the Spirit blather last week.
Interesting times. This is the game. Not for the timid.
Nu
01-15-2010, 04:35 PM
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Originally Posted by forgot to bid
Connecting the dots and trying to hit ACL's softballs is harder than people know nu. So nu, you think, I'll wall paper with pictures.
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