What would be the gain in that? USAir's Europe presence is paultry compared to ours and most of our competitors. Maybe the terms on the planes are favorable? But is that enough to go through the mess of a fragmentation and partial merger with the most senior pilot group in the world?

Even if the terms on the 330's were good, are they really better than what we could get with an AAesque massive jet order like we're likely going to place one way or the other anyway? I could see if we needed the lift now, especially to EU, but we clearly are dumping as much as we can as fast as we can. So dumping our own capacity only to pick up theirs makes little sense other than as a crafty way to reduce total seat counts and drive up demand. But if we do that, UCAL, AA and a ton of subsidized foreign airlines will pick up the slack pretty quickly.

So what's in it for us?

 

I have a HP mini and it works great. It has a nine hour battery, and has Windows 7 on it. I have no complaints with it.

I also have a Apple I-Pad 64G 3G. I use Mercury and can access I-Crew with no issues.

The HP goes for about 350 and the I-pad was 812 with our discount.

 

I heard the equipment and routes only no pilots! So what would be in that for us DAL pilots?

 

Now that I have no Jepps to carry in my flight kit, I carry my desktop.

 

Alpa has no problem setting up meetings in an airport. When I was at Skywest they did it all the time. Alpa rented a room near the Skywest pilot lounge in Salt Lake City. Every day there was food, drinks and plenty of union talk. Why can't we rent a room in ATL, DTW, MSP and have the meetings there? Heck, why not rent a room in MCO for all those Floridians???? We could call it a satellite meeting and have reps from multiple MEC's there.

 

I have suggested just that. I want to have the ATL meeting in one of the conference rooms at the ATL airport. Either the conference rooms on the second floor of the atrium, or another room that meets our needs.

 

If you want to carry the rumor out:

Isn't it for their future 330 delivers and we in turn trade them for the 1500 series 7ER's..

 

I just bought a HP on sale at Bestbuy for my GF. Superlight, loaded with features, Win7, and $350,-..... Can't go wrong with that....

 

MacBook Air and love it, less than a pound heavier than the Ipad, great battery life and no moving parts. do not know what operating system you are used to but it gets on all the Delta stuff that I need no sweat. Bought a refurb model off the Apple site so saved a little on the price. Good luck with your search.

 

I can't imagine we want the "routes" literally. CLT or PHL to EU with no feed? If its just the EU destination capacity on the other end, we are pulling our own down agressively. Maybe its to "trade" 330's for our 7ER's but wouldn't that increase capacity for us (even if kept neutral over the pond in total)?

Does the 330 do as good a job cost wise on EU routes that 7ER's can easily do as well?

I'm not saying a version of this rumor won't happen. I just don't see why it would happen. Unless, as it kind of appears, USAir is burning furniture to heat the house and we figure its going to be us that benefits rather than someone else.