Gaaaaaaaah can't ANYBODY have any patience anymore? WAIT TILL THE F%*@^* GAME to watch them.....

 

So is everything else we buy!

 

Sure. You bring up a good point, which is that the AS agreement could not be simply inherited without our approval. This doesn't mean Alaska had to agree to go along with new terms, but they had something to gain from the bigger network. On the other hand, I think the truth is that both MEC's, and both companies, really did want this merger. I think it came down to time, and we would have had to be amazingly unified and forward-thinking to get what we got plus contractual modifications. For starters, we would have had to agreee on what both groups would have wanted in a combined contract.

Now that we have time, I'd really like us to craft the contract the Delta pilots will work under, not to blindly head towards a TA. To me, the cornerstones would be be capturing as much of our flying as possible, a review of benefits, a redesign of Section 23, better DC rates, and, finally, tweaking payrates to get to the overall cost we can negotiate.

 

Maybe the JAL MD-90's. I think the China Southern MD-90's are a done deal.

 

Look at the BH utilization and stage lenght. Those skew the numbers quite a bit. 433 miles for DL DC-9 vs 994 miles for YX Ejet? I think you need to look at similar stage lenghts and block hour to get an accurate comparision.

I mean really, I bet Delta flies the -9 a bit more than 6.7 hours per day.

 

No idea just showing the words Ed used, and applying it to the limits of the PWA.

 

Yep, did you read Note 2 on the YX numbers as well? It says, "YX E190 started operating in Q3 2009, stats represent internal forecasts".
So, not even actual numbers!

Also, I'm a little surprised that for Delta's DC-9, that maintenance and crew costs add up to $2,461 a block hour. The airplanes are depreciated and have no lease payments, so ownership cost should be almost zero.

Remember, there are Lies, Damned Lies and statistics.

 

There's only 119 of the buggars in the world...

 

They're mystical in the sense that we've "been getting them" for years, but we only have a handful in service, and we managed to damage one of those.

I'm not so much interested in aircraft we "will" see, as airplanes I can see. I'm not debating your info, only waiting for it to be proven. You can't blame me for waiting for confirmation: the gap between rumored and delivered MD-90's is significant.

I'm not discounting your info, let's just say I'm... deferring it.

 

Didn't have my readin' specticals on so I missed that!