Originally Posted by Check Essential (Post 794964)

That's why we will never see significant profits and certainly no "profit sharing" at Delta. Its almost become irrelevant who an airline's "owners" are. The common shareholders are secondary. Nothing but placeholders for other interests.
Delta is actually very profitable right now. It just doesn't show up on Delta's books. We generate enormous profits for bondholders, banks, Boeing, American Express, vendors, hotels, cruise ships, airports, governments, etc. etc. etc. and of course, executives.

Originally Posted by acl65pilot (Post 794941)

Tell me about it. He was hired at what 25 Super? Jerk :D

Even I who was 10 years or so his senior will be waiting until my late 40's to don the fifth strip! :eek:

Originally Posted by RCD73 (Post 794729)

Nobody called you a "wierdo". I suppose the rest was a little close the nerve.

Whose the dog with the bone in his mouth ? He must be an excellent addition to the 'mission'. Perfect atitude. Isn't that right boy ? Good dog.
I can hear him now ..... " Oh were you in the Military ? Can you tell me a story about snorkelling and teabagging ? I'd love to be a team member. They wouldn't let me in the military but I wanted to ... Pant, Pant.

You guys are like a bum that jumps on your windshield and attempts to clean it. As you drive away he squeels at you " I'm a winner. I used to be a a highly paid executive".

Carry on. This is more entertaining than a low speed car accident :)

Originally Posted by acl65pilot (Post 794966)

Who is I? :eek:

Originally Posted by forgot to bid (Post 794841)

My bet is grab used 320s if push comes to shove. Especially if Airbus comes out with a mod to current 320s. I mean Boeing was talking extending the nose wheel to get more efficient engines but I think the 320 can be tinkered with.

Actually, if we're grabbing "older" or no longer in production planes like a 90 then my bet is why not wait a few years and grab used 320s and 737s. By that time B&A might have announced their intent to look at a definite maybe possibly starting one day a 737/A320 replacement.

Also say fuel goes to $180bb and remains there but we can't raise prices. I'd like to think you'd see the complete elimination of 50-seaters and possibly keeping only some of the larger RJs and having larger aircraft flying routes with less frequency. Maybe or maybe not, I haven't thought that out yet.

Originally Posted by Bucking Bar (Post 794844)

Mostly, yes. From Airliners.net I've read elsewhere that Delta requested the MD88 designation and that some of these changes were driven by Delta's desire to have a windshear detection system installed.

Originally Posted by sailingfun (Post 794854)

The reason is that most of the numbers posted here are far from reality. There are so many issues with older airframes it just does not make sense to keep them for most airlines. In fact the smaller airlines that decided to go with new equipment have either done well or turned around such as Spirit and Jet Blue as examples of doing well and a turn around.

You have to deal with noise and slot issues, aging airframe inspections, increased overall maintenance costs before you even talk about fuel.

If you have a jet that is 30 percent more efficient on fuel the overall savings is enormous at 80 dollars a barrel and can easily pay the lease payment and more each month. The problem at Delta is management simply does not want a 100 seat aircraft. Its not coming and there wont be a purchase regardless of what we do with scope. They will mention it and really start to dangle it out there in the 2012 contract but in the end just like every other time the last 20 years the airframes wont show up.

Originally Posted by slowplay (Post 794914)

I have a question for TOGA LK.

Why is it that you ask this question of a specific group of Delta pilots when the Alaska code share was imported from the NWA CBA? It was the NWA (primarily Seattle) operation that required AS feed (over 20,000 coded flights per month).

Nobody is "excited" about outsourcing. I think many on here are realistic, however. There's no way DAL could have profitably replaced the AS feed that was already under contract. Not having that feed means no West Coast gateways for Delta pilots.

Originally Posted by Superpilot92 (Post 794977)

no not 25, I Interviewed at 26 but started class the week after my 27th bday. There's 8-9 people senior to me that are slightly younger, so there are "others"! ;)