Here's the recap from SD's visit to the LAX lounge on Tuesday. Moderators (i.e, ACL and Johnso), if I've crossed the line anywhere, please feel free to edit/delete. I wasn't there, I was flying, but this was passed on:

Operations: Our operation is running much better this summer than last year. Many of the improvements made in maintenance (for example, more line maintenance stations) are the foundation of that improvement.

Financials: Our 2Q results should be out by July 27. It was a good quarter, despite challenges. We should post a profit of about $350 million. We are now projecting a full year profit of about $600-700 million. The lower results for the 2Q are due to 3 main challenges we faced: rapid run-up in fuel costs, the January ice storm in ATL, and the Japan earthquake.

Capacity Reductions: post-labor day draw down in capacity of about 4%.

More than 2,000 employees took advantage of the early out programs, among them 187 pilots.

JFK: facility construction is moving forward, slightly ahead of schedule. We’ll be dealing with the challenges of this construction for some time. When complete, this will present a much better customer experience in NY.

US Air Slot Swap. DOT looks like it will approve the deal as currently configured. DOJ is resisting. If approved we will see some schedule changes.

Tablet/EFB test. Going forward with research into avionics grade EFB. Will probably not be system wide if adopted, but implemented on certain fleets/new A/C. Tablet test going forward simultaneously.

D-0/A-0. This initiative is starting to show results. We were a bottom dweller last year, now upper middle of the pack.

MSP Training Center Closure - 18 to 24 months timeline. 9 devices (sims) have been identified for relocation and possibly a 10th.

June AE Award: 806 awards and will generate roughly 500 training events.

SOT and LOA #29: Effective in August PCS timeline changes. Instead of three runs per day will go to four per day at 0700, 1200, 1700 and 2200 ET. Also, same day/next day awards will consider all pilots who have submitted slip requests at the time of processing the award for a trip rather than only those who submitted by the PCS run deadlines. Also in August, travel to training will no longer be booked by the company and must be booked by the pilot. You should get a pop-up message in E-Crew/I-Crew reminding you to book travel.

Modification of the current reserve trip assignment process to consider seniority within the RAW score grouping system should be implemented starting with the February 2012 bid period.

Basing Issues: Crew resources is pretty happy with the current crew basings for most fleets. 767 to 7ER conversion in ATL on hold for the time being due to cost issues. 73N category is the most inefficient from a credit time perspective. Mid-term possibility of 73N in DTW. Mid-term possibility of 320 in NYC.

Attrition: 192 pilots put in for the early out programs, 5 have rescinded leaving 187 total at present. From June 1, 2010 to June 1, 2011, 92 pilots left the property, 69 were early retirements.

Post Labor day we will be reducing capacity a total of 4%

Domestic - down 1-3%
Atlantic - 10-12% (mainly driven by the economic conditions in Europe and over capacity)
Pacific - down 1-3%
Latin and South America - up 2 - 4%.

LAX - capacity is increasing. Wide body and regional increases.

LAX is a focus city. We have added many destinations in California (OAK, SMF and SFO) and the west (PHX) to feed our SYD, HND and NRT flights. Eventually, some if not all of these, may become mainline flights.

Two Delta jets collide on Logan airport taxiway

767 bound for Amsterdam clipped an RJ. No injuries reported.

Check out the 4 photos.
Tore a winglet off the 767 and pretty much destroyed the rudder and horizontal stab on the RJ.

Two Delta jets collide on Logan airport taxiway - BostonHerald.com

http://multimedia.heraldinteractive....3_07142011.jpg

One could always file a grievance if they feel a GS/YS was awarded incorrectly.

Oh wait.

You would have to get DALPA to agree to pursue the grievance first. Never mind.

I'll only be responding to serious points from here on out.

It's not that we can't, it's that we choose not to. Rather, we choose to use ALL of our energies to begin an in-house union made up entirely of Delta pilots for the express purpose of representing ONLY Delta pilots.

I know you'd prefer nothing more than DPA supporters spending all their energies on the fool's errand of trying to fix ALPA through ALPA's "processes". Your angst is that we recognize this latest request of your ilk as the fool's errand that it is. That won't change. You should thank us for planning to have a union in place when ALPA bleeds out from its own self-inflicted wounds.

Carl

That sh!t will buff out -- Joe Dirt

Absolutely! Great idea! We'll be credited for winning by keeping a soon to be bankrupt union made so by the legal verdict against them for not representing their own members. And a union that won't enforce their own scope clauses. And still completely conflicted by also representing the regionals.

Hmmmm...maybe I need to re-think this whole winning thing. :rolleyes:

Carl

Sweet! One less RJ!!!

The "New" Delta First class....

‪Behind-the-Scenes: First Class Service on Delta Regional Jets‬‏ - YouTube

LOL. I think it goes something like this:

That didn't take long....I come to expect comments like this and this is why Bar's dream of "inclusive scope" will never happen....Let me guess, this is the fault of one those inexperienced "regional" pilots...

You guys land on taxiways, overfly destinations while on your laptops, and take out other aircraft....yet somehow you find ways to attack us...