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Old 09-01-2011 | 06:59 PM
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Originally Posted by Desperado
About the Merlins, no. They were ramping up the aluminium 427's when I was there.
About the other guy you alluded to, my other vintage race mustang is one of his. A real '66 G.T.350 that's been a race car since the 70's.
Jealous lowly FO.....
Old 09-01-2011 | 07:09 PM
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Originally Posted by Desperado
About the Merlins, no. They were ramping up the aluminium 427's when I was there.
About the other guy you alluded to, my other vintage race mustang is one of his. A real '66 G.T.350 that's been a race car since the 70's.
Well that's not the same thing

You've got excellent taste, Sir! Hope we get to fly together some day.
Old 09-01-2011 | 07:43 PM
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Thanks guys!
Old 09-01-2011 | 08:08 PM
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Originally Posted by Desperado
About the Merlins, no. They were ramping up the aluminium 427's when I was there.
About the other guy you alluded to, my other vintage race mustang is one of his. A real '66 G.T.350 that's been a race car since the 70's.
Nice!!!! !
Old 09-01-2011 | 08:17 PM
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Originally Posted by forgot to bid
Ha ha, I did. He has a smile from ear to ear and I think if he tried he couldn't make a frown.

The funny part was explaining how I knew you... it's like when my wife asked... So you've never actually met any of these people? Well... no. Go cut the grass.

What?

I'm going to go cut the grass.

It's dead?

I'm going to my room!

That's my room too.

I'm going to go reduce my raw!

No you're not.
Ha. I'm sure it was a difficult concept to explain to a non-forum person. I texted him that you were one of the funniest people I knew, but in the next text wrote that we had never met.

APC'ers are a strange breed.
Old 09-01-2011 | 08:55 PM
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From a SWA thread, has anyone heard this yet?

Looks like the 717 may is being used as a form of trade with Delta for a gate SWAP in ATL. Sources say that WN first 4 gates will be at the D gates starting in Feb 2012 and now WNand Delta are in talks about trading All the FL C gates for all of Delta D gates.

Along with this gate trade WN will trade 30 717 for 10 737-700 and 3 737-800 from Delta next year.Along with this WN will be adding a mix of 80 new and used 737-700 and 800 from a Boeing leasing company from June 2012 until Jan 2013.

During this time frame 6 717 will be moved from the fleet at a time and replaced with New and used 737-700 and 800. Delta will add the 717 to replace the 29 DC 9 50 and the 13 737 in the swap plus add additional aircraft.

When all is said and done WN will have off loaded all of the 717. Retired all the 737-500 and a few 737-300. The cost saving from not having redo any 717 into the WN fleet and the retirement off all the 737-500 and some older 300 will end up saving WN millions a year.

And at ATL WN will end up with all the D gates with 30 gates total that will be able to handle a 737-800 The only down side is 1# no 717 in ever in the WN fleet.
Old 09-01-2011 | 09:45 PM
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Videos from the DPA meeting in ATL are up:

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Old 09-01-2011 | 09:51 PM
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Originally Posted by LOBO
From a SWA thread, has anyone heard this yet?

Looks like the 717 may is being used as a form of trade with Delta for a gate SWAP in ATL. Sources say that WN first 4 gates will be at the D gates starting in Feb 2012 and now WNand Delta are in talks about trading All the FL C gates for all of Delta D gates.

Along with this gate trade WN will trade 30 717 for 10 737-700 and 3 737-800 from Delta next year.Along with this WN will be adding a mix of 80 new and used 737-700 and 800 from a Boeing leasing company from June 2012 until Jan 2013.

During this time frame 6 717 will be moved from the fleet at a time and replaced with New and used 737-700 and 800. Delta will add the 717 to replace the 29 DC 9 50 and the 13 737 in the swap plus add additional aircraft.

When all is said and done WN will have off loaded all of the 717. Retired all the 737-500 and a few 737-300. The cost saving from not having redo any 717 into the WN fleet and the retirement off all the 737-500 and some older 300 will end up saving WN millions a year.

And at ATL WN will end up with all the D gates with 30 gates total that will be able to handle a 737-800 The only down side is 1# no 717 in ever in the WN fleet.
Interesting. Sounds like a good deal to me.
Old 09-01-2011 | 11:01 PM
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Originally Posted by LOBO
From a SWA thread, has anyone heard this yet?

Looks like the 717 may is being used as a form of trade with Delta for a gate SWAP in ATL. Sources say that WN first 4 gates will be at the D gates starting in Feb 2012 and now WNand Delta are in talks about trading All the FL C gates for all of Delta D gates.

Along with this gate trade WN will trade 30 717 for 10 737-700 and 3 737-800 from Delta next year.Along with this WN will be adding a mix of 80 new and used 737-700 and 800 from a Boeing leasing company from June 2012 until Jan 2013.

During this time frame 6 717 will be moved from the fleet at a time and replaced with New and used 737-700 and 800. Delta will add the 717 to replace the 29 DC 9 50 and the 13 737 in the swap plus add additional aircraft.

When all is said and done WN will have off loaded all of the 717. Retired all the 737-500 and a few 737-300. The cost saving from not having redo any 717 into the WN fleet and the retirement off all the 737-500 and some older 300 will end up saving WN millions a year.

And at ATL WN will end up with all the D gates with 30 gates total that will be able to handle a 737-800 The only down side is 1# no 717 in ever in the WN fleet.
Here's my take:
This has always been awin-win deal, the gates add a new element.

Dots, Nuggets, Hints, call 'em what you want.
  • WN isn't interested in a SOC type merger, they will run this more like an asset purchase by slowly transferring ATI jets and crews to the WN certificate, 2-weeks of indoc for the crews, no FAA required.
  • DAL just unloaded the remaining 737-800 options with the 739ER order, those roll over to WN.
  • 20 717s just became unavailable from Boeing Capital. They have been sitting on these jets with nothing to do and just found a taker for 20 of them within days of the 739ER order announcement.
At just around $40M/jet the 739ER was a smoking deal (go see the 8-K) for a 180 seater, that would make the 737-700 price about $30M/jet using similar discounts for 124 seats. Compare that with 13.5M/jet Hawaiian just paid Boeing Capital for their 717 with 123 seats and it's obvious from a capital perspective where the 100-110 seater will come from. The C-Series can't compete in that market from a capital cost standpoint.

Take the 20 Boeing 717, add the Guadeloupe Holdings (Airtran) 717 and that's the DC-9 replacement fleet. A 3:1 swap for 717/737 always seemed the most equitable way to swap. I imagine the DC-9s accelerated retirement keeps GK happy about not helping a competitor grow with a 2:1 advantage...

As exciting as all this might be, I'm wondering where that leaves the DAL pilot when the dust settles. Will this deal be staffing positive?

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George
Old 09-02-2011 | 12:00 AM
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Originally Posted by LOBO
From a SWA thread, has anyone heard this yet?

Looks like the 717 may is being used as a form of trade with Delta for a gate SWAP in ATL. Sources say that WN first 4 gates will be at the D gates starting in Feb 2012 and now WNand Delta are in talks about trading All the FL C gates for all of Delta D gates.

Along with this gate trade WN will trade 30 717 for 10 737-700 and 3 737-800 from Delta next year.Along with this WN will be adding a mix of 80 new and used 737-700 and 800 from a Boeing leasing company from June 2012 until Jan 2013.

During this time frame 6 717 will be moved from the fleet at a time and replaced with New and used 737-700 and 800. Delta will add the 717 to replace the 29 DC 9 50 and the 13 737 in the swap plus add additional aircraft.

When all is said and done WN will have off loaded all of the 717. Retired all the 737-500 and a few 737-300. The cost saving from not having redo any 717 into the WN fleet and the retirement off all the 737-500 and some older 300 will end up saving WN millions a year.

And at ATL WN will end up with all the D gates with 30 gates total that will be able to handle a 737-800 The only down side is 1# no 717 in ever in the WN fleet.
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