forgot to bid

First, are you senior to me?

iaflyer

Does that include capital costs? I'm just making up numbers here, but if the MD-90 does 85% of the 737 role at 70% of the cost, seems like a better choice.

forgot to bid

hogwash.

johnso29

Yes, but how much revenue does AA use to pay off the 737's? If we own the MD90's, & AA is making payments on their 737's......wouldn't we be in a better position financially?

Express pilot

Not sure, I think we were hired around the same time, early 07
I think there is a FA base in PBI?

forgot to bid

oh your senior.

so PBI-LGA is fantastic.





seriously, I don't know. don't trust me.

Columbia

DOCs on the MD-90 are approximately 5%-10% higher than that of the 737-800. No, the -90 doesn't have range of the -800, but with an asset cost 1/4 of a -800, the net CASM of the -90 is much lower. Cash preservation allows the company greater flexibility to manage business. Now, how the pax feel about the -90 vs. -800 is another topic.

johnso29

On another topic, I'm seriously concerned with the domestic product DAL is providing. My last 4 day had one leg that left on time & arrived early. That's out of 7 legs. In LAS, the longest runway is closed for construction. We took a 30 minute delay for them to figure out how many people we could take. Why do they NOT know this BEFORE we board? After we boarded they wanted to pull the jetway back up and remove 2 pax. Absolutely unacceptable. It caused us to be behind the rest of the day, arriving at our overnight 30+ minutes late.

This is the 2nd trip in a row where our on time performance tanked. Something has to change. The product is just terrible right now.

iaflyer

I agree. On my last trip (short one), 1 out of 4 legs was on-time. And I'm not talking a little late - the closest to on-time we had was 45 minutes late.

Leg 1 was MX problems. The plane came in with 4 MELs and went out with 6. The delay was MX trying to figure out if they could defer an exit row armrest (the one that goes on the emer. exit). Once they figured out they had to fix it, that only took 20 minutes. It was the 40 minutes where they went back and forth that was the problem. Leg 2 was follow-on from that problem at the next station. Leg 3 was on-time (in ATL, after an overnight). Leg 4 was delayed waiting the inbound aircraft due to some "communications problem" in DTW. Never figured out what that was.

Someone was asking last week about DC-9 MX - from reports I'm hearing from friends, something has changed with the MX, because they are breaking constantly. It wasn't this way, I used to commute on them every week to NYC and in two years, never had a delay.

Is it company readjusting staffing? Are they afraid to hire because of the IAM hasn't settled? Is the operation just running too lean?

Scoop

I am pretty sure that once it shows up on your timecard as a GS - you have the rotation guarantee. I had a GS last year that was NO OP'd before I even left my house and I was paid for it.

Scoop