Any "Latest & Greatest" about Delta?
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In this case, they can't build fences tall enough. If this ever happens, it will be VERY interesting to see if the new DAL merger committee resurrects the old NWA arguments about "premium widebody flying" and the fence methodology used for NWA/REP.
My guess is "you betcha".
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My guess is "you betcha".
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Then there is the slight problem of the 747-200 and DC-9's going, along with airplanes going to the desert, to be pulled out later, where the rate of airplanes going from the desert is going towards infinity, while the rate of aircraft coming from the desert is also mind-numbing, but few people have found rattlesnakes while doing preflights. So there is some confusing desert math (super-dry), and also some funny Chinese math, and who wants to do MD-90 math with the Chinese anyway? 16 airplanes promised for four years + 1 in the paint shop every week for four years X 1 being ferried across monthly = 0 line pilots in an actual a Chinese aircraft. Remember the scene in Airport (I think 77) where Dean Martin tries to explain to the kid how a star went fron one side of the aircraft to the other, but they didn't do a 180? That's another kind of math we're talking about: spacial math from Uranus.
There is of course another area of this math that explains the fact we don't need as many as we thought before and after, which is a lot less funny, and it revives the SLI wounds. So while I'm not super-happy about some of the fuzzy math that's being blown around here lately, it's at least good there is still a job for everyone post-merger, and a few more to boot. That'll work for me.
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The nice answer would be that capacity is holding steady (i.e. not growing to over capacity) because flying is being shifted from regionals to mainline.
Also, that while nobody is in a Chinese MD90, yet, that if whatever the issue is gets resolved quickly then they'll flood in.
but hey, puff puff pass... PUFF PUFF PASS...
Also, that while nobody is in a Chinese MD90, yet, that if whatever the issue is gets resolved quickly then they'll flood in.
but hey, puff puff pass... PUFF PUFF PASS...
Why?
The effect will be to trade furloughs.
Why should employed pilots be furloughed to make way for pilots from another carrier?
How about plan B: Hold management over a barrel to renegotiate agreements during a merger to FORCE the airline to do its own flying? IE while management is at the table, close scope loopholes. That results in a win for both sides.
I think Delta did the right thing in giving furloughed pilots back their longevity.
The effect will be to trade furloughs.
Why should employed pilots be furloughed to make way for pilots from another carrier?
How about plan B: Hold management over a barrel to renegotiate agreements during a merger to FORCE the airline to do its own flying? IE while management is at the table, close scope loopholes. That results in a win for both sides.
I think Delta did the right thing in giving furloughed pilots back their longevity.
Just saying, if we furloughed that's how I'd want it.
Now as to plan B. That's the Free Buzz Pat plan. It'd also flood the market with capacity, however, in the Alaska case if AMR bought them couldn't we grow on our own as we'd all like because what we already have is SEA and LAX international connections. It's doable, once somebody buys Alaska.
Which I hope is AMR, and I hope we battle them out and run the price up and win that.
Since we're all buzzing about a possible Alaska merger, doesn't Alaska have some kind of onerous burden wrt servicing tiny Alaskan airports way out in the tundra someplace?
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