Any "Latest & Greatest" about Delta?
05-31-2010 | 05:52 PM
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From: Douglas Aerospace post production Flight Test & Work Around Engineering bulletin dissembler
Despite the denials from those who have not sat reserve in a while ... there is a troubling trend of late notifications going around. Three hours prior to departure works fine. Two hours prior seems to be the standard in use lately. IMHO if they place these max effort "do the best you can" calls they should also place a courtesy call to the other pilot so the rest of the crew knows that they are going to have to either do the reserve guy's pre departure tasks, or expect a delay.
To the credit of the Captains, 99% of them see a sweaty first officer arriving at push time out of breath and say "sit down, lets brief and read, it's all done."
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05-31-2010 | 06:19 PM
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Welcome Home,
I hope they all made it back OK
DB
I hope they all made it back OK
DB
05-31-2010 | 06:31 PM
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Anyone know the help desk phone number? The IT guys...or gals... I mean.
05-31-2010 | 06:49 PM
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I do however understand the issue of a pilot who has elected to work for someone else while waiting for Delta to survive and then comes back to Delta 10 years later with a full retirement, slides right into a Captains seat and gets all his Delta retirement paid back! If I were junior that might give me some pause if I stuck out the bankruptcy and spent the last 10 years generating revenue to keep the company alive only to lose a bunch of numbers when these guys come back.
05-31-2010 | 06:55 PM
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From: Douglas Aerospace post production Flight Test & Work Around Engineering bulletin dissembler
Competition from DCI in Asia?
(repeating a web board rumor FWIW, sources NOT confirmed)
We all know Republic has broken free of scope restrictions and set a course for growth independent of their major codeshare partners. SkyWest's managers have been increasingly feeling the pressure to do the same.
ASA & SkyWest pilots are getting briefings from C.T. (former Delta Manager with close ties) that pilots who accept assignment to the Vietnam / Meekong will be in a good position to accept future assignments in this non scope restricted Asian start up.
The PPRUNE crowd is all up in arms figuring ASA / SkyWest will compete with them in the contract flying business, bringing regional wages to what was a good deal flying A320's, 767's and 777's around Asia.
I just get nervous when Delta drops their plans for using mainline in Asia and the next day former Delta managers are giving crew room briefs on what a sweet opportunity is about to present itself in the far east.
We all know Republic has broken free of scope restrictions and set a course for growth independent of their major codeshare partners. SkyWest's managers have been increasingly feeling the pressure to do the same.
ASA & SkyWest pilots are getting briefings from C.T. (former Delta Manager with close ties) that pilots who accept assignment to the Vietnam / Meekong will be in a good position to accept future assignments in this non scope restricted Asian start up.
The PPRUNE crowd is all up in arms figuring ASA / SkyWest will compete with them in the contract flying business, bringing regional wages to what was a good deal flying A320's, 767's and 777's around Asia.
I just get nervous when Delta drops their plans for using mainline in Asia and the next day former Delta managers are giving crew room briefs on what a sweet opportunity is about to present itself in the far east.
05-31-2010 | 07:01 PM
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05-31-2010 | 07:09 PM
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05-31-2010 | 07:15 PM
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From: Douglas Aerospace post production Flight Test & Work Around Engineering bulletin dissembler
From the all things 787 blog ...
Just trying to add some fodder to enjoy during everyone's early morning coffee. As ACL's been saying for a while, the 787-9 is turning out to be the airplane to have.
Well interestingly enough a comment was left by someone saying that supposedly that Delta has decided to switch from the 787-8 to the 787-9 and to increase the order to triple digits (100 or more airframes?). The announcement is supposedly to be made later this year once Boeing has reallocated the 787-8 slots that Northwest had bought along with it in the merger. Now this is a rumor so let's not take it at face value but if there is someone out there who knows something and who can confirm it, let me know!
It is interesting because a lot of people know that Delta has said that it doesn't really need the 787-8 and there has been rumors that they would take up more 777-200LR. Well now in the light of Boeing gaining some more range from the 787-9 one wonders if this rumor may have some truth to it? In increasing the 787 order (they have 18 on order plus 50 options) to about 100+, Delta could replace the entire 767 and A330 fleet (about 100 aircraft) and add capacity for future growth.
It is interesting because a lot of people know that Delta has said that it doesn't really need the 787-8 and there has been rumors that they would take up more 777-200LR. Well now in the light of Boeing gaining some more range from the 787-9 one wonders if this rumor may have some truth to it? In increasing the 787 order (they have 18 on order plus 50 options) to about 100+, Delta could replace the entire 767 and A330 fleet (about 100 aircraft) and add capacity for future growth.
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05-31-2010 | 09:32 PM
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(repeating a web board rumor FWIW, sources NOT confirmed)
We all know Republic has broken free of scope restrictions and set a course for growth independent of their major codeshare partners. SkyWest's managers have been increasingly feeling the pressure to do the same.
ASA & SkyWest pilots are getting briefings from C.T. (former Delta Manager with close ties) that pilots who accept assignment to the Vietnam / Meekong will be in a good position to accept future assignments in this non scope restricted Asian start up.
The PPRUNE crowd is all up in arms figuring ASA / SkyWest will compete with them in the contract flying business, bringing regional wages to what was a good deal flying A320's, 767's and 777's around Asia.
I just get nervous when Delta drops their plans for using mainline in Asia and the next day former Delta managers are giving crew room briefs on what a sweet opportunity is about to present itself in the far east.
We all know Republic has broken free of scope restrictions and set a course for growth independent of their major codeshare partners. SkyWest's managers have been increasingly feeling the pressure to do the same.
ASA & SkyWest pilots are getting briefings from C.T. (former Delta Manager with close ties) that pilots who accept assignment to the Vietnam / Meekong will be in a good position to accept future assignments in this non scope restricted Asian start up.
The PPRUNE crowd is all up in arms figuring ASA / SkyWest will compete with them in the contract flying business, bringing regional wages to what was a good deal flying A320's, 767's and 777's around Asia.
I just get nervous when Delta drops their plans for using mainline in Asia and the next day former Delta managers are giving crew room briefs on what a sweet opportunity is about to present itself in the far east.
05-31-2010 | 10:04 PM
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But not at JFK.... JFK had another big holiday melt down this weekend.1 st it was customs on Saturday when over half customs officers didn't show for work. At one point there where only two officers on duty. They stoped international gate arrivals for over one hour. Then came Monday and the big travel day. Half the delta ticket agents called in. 5 quit on the spot and walked away b/c they just got feed up. The ticket lines where out the door. People where yelling, screening, at the workers people were crying cause they had been waiting in line for over 2 hours just check a bag only to miss their flight. Then the wx moved just south of the airport. Adding to the mess.
Next weekend holiday on deck is July 4th... Atleast this is the year of the customer.
Next weekend holiday on deck is July 4th... Atleast this is the year of the customer.
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