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Originally Posted by acl65pilot
(Post 880702)
We will see if SkyTeam decides to put heavy lift on the DAL certificate or to put the biggest jets on other carriers in the SkyTeam.
Pros if the flying (777,744,etc) comes here: Big jets at the highest pay. Cons: Lots of lifting capacity per crew which will equate to less pilots jobs overall. It would be Large WB jobs but as the AF/KLM deal states it is a formula used to compute the equality of lift, not block hrs. If they opt for DAL to do smaller point to point flying it will mean more pilot jobs but on smaller jets than the 777,744 and 380. One 380 equates to about three 767 worth of lift. Congrats again! |
Originally Posted by NuGuy
(Post 880556)
I love how they say a load factor of %82 is "flat".
There's a reason for that...anything north of %80 is essentially full. Delete out all the late night MX repos that are sold as live flights, and the other oddball departure times/weekend flights no one really wants go on, and that load factor is essentially %100 at the times real people want to travel. There's less of that going accross the Pacific, but %87 is probably essentially "full" also. From this data, it seems that we're filling every seat that we add back into the system, and they need more metal if they want to carry more people. We'd better call Alaska so they can order some more airplanes. Nu Marketing wanted more lift. They were looking at around 6 percent increase for next summer. RA is trimming that back to 2 to 3 percent on fears Wallstreet will not like the higher growth number and fears of starting a capacity war. The good news is that the remaining 757's and 767's in the desert which includes 5 or 6 767-300's are coming out. Those older 300's with the small engines were planned to eventually become razor blades so this is a change. |
Originally Posted by sailingfun
(Post 880725)
Marketing wanted more lift. They were looking at around 6 percent increase for next summer. RA is trimming that back to 2 to 3 percent on fears Wallstreet will not like the higher growth number and fears of starting a capacity war. The good news is that the remaining 757's and 767's in the desert which includes 5 or 6 767-300's are coming out. Those older 300's with the small engines were planned to eventually become razor blades so this is a change.
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I am responding to Scambo's response that we need more big jets. My statement was in response to that and the probability and decision process to come to a decision on that.
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Originally Posted by johnso29
(Post 880732)
I think that's smart. The industry has to be very careful about flooding the market with capacity again. Good move IMO. And more planes out of storage is always good. :)
Our number one investor who holds about 3% of the outstanding shares of stock was very vocal at the last shareholders meeting about capacity discipline. If we see stronger numbers they will add seats. |
Hey all,
Quick thread diversion here. Got my first DL CQ coming up. A while back I found a document that had the systems questions that they could ask. Now I cant find it. Anyone know where to look? Thanks/Gnewt |
Go to your Fleet page and then download the LOD. It is the Learning Objectives Document. (LOD)
This is what you are looking for. |
Originally Posted by acl65pilot
(Post 880776)
Go to your Fleet page and then download the LOD. It is the Learning Objectives Document. (LOD)
This is what you are looking for. Gnewt |
Anyone in the "know" know when they are going to put the training info out for the last bid already??? Come on it can't take all the way to the 12th can it???
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Originally Posted by Maddog Waddle
(Post 880790)
Anyone in the "know" know when they are going to put the training info out for the last bid already??? Come on it can't take all the way to the 12th can it???
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