Any "Latest & Greatest" about Delta?
12-18-2011 | 06:10 AM
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From: Going to hell in a bucket, but enjoying the ride .
Well at least there's plenty of room for more jets at LGA, and -all- the runways (all 2 of them) at LGA are very long and are always well plowed, so when it's snowing, or raining, or both, those over-powered, high lift RJ's can load up, full pax, bags and plenty of divert fuel, and still get off the ground, and clear the obsticles and...
Oh...wait.
More little airplanes in LGA?? Oh...I thought you said JFK!
Yeah, this is going to suck.
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12-18-2011 | 06:40 AM
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From: Light Chop
Keep this in your files and revisit it in 2013. Prior to then the two terminals (C and D) are not physically connected. Kind of difficult to run a competitive connecting hub when your flights aren't able to connect except by bus in LGA terminal traffic.
The terminal construction project will take about a year and $100 million. That will modernize the 1980's Eastern (USAirways) terminal and connect it to our existing Terminal D.
Management couldn't have been much more ham-fisted in the way they presented this expansion to Delta employees. They sucked. The DCI "expansion" is 42 DCI slots moved from DCA, and the majority of the rest coming from JFK, then MEM. The LGA schedule includes a whole bunch of DCI RJ's replacing USAirways Express turboprops. One other thing, just because we have the new LGA slots from LCC doesn't mean we picked up their passengers. Their frequent flyers still have the option to go LCC through PHL, DCA and CLT.
FWIW.
The terminal construction project will take about a year and $100 million. That will modernize the 1980's Eastern (USAirways) terminal and connect it to our existing Terminal D.
Management couldn't have been much more ham-fisted in the way they presented this expansion to Delta employees. They sucked. The DCI "expansion" is 42 DCI slots moved from DCA, and the majority of the rest coming from JFK, then MEM. The LGA schedule includes a whole bunch of DCI RJ's replacing USAirways Express turboprops. One other thing, just because we have the new LGA slots from LCC doesn't mean we picked up their passengers. Their frequent flyers still have the option to go LCC through PHL, DCA and CLT.
FWIW.
As to LGA, I doubt many UsAir passengers chose LGA for connections over CLT and PHL anyways.
I doubt a bunch of these markets will be served by anything other than DCI now, so if you want to go to NY this is how you'll do it now out of hotspots like ROA and CHO. So we'll still get those plus maybe some international connections to JFK but we'll see.
Did I say we'll? I mean they. We're not included.
But what we will see is the cluster Orvil spoke of, that's a guarantee.
12-18-2011 | 06:49 AM
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What was given up in exchange for the ability to put profit sharing into 401Ks? DALPA???
12-18-2011 | 06:55 AM
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12-18-2011 | 06:57 AM
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12-18-2011 | 07:00 AM
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12-18-2011 | 07:01 AM
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12-18-2011 | 07:31 AM
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Hey guys, has anybody asked DALPA why 90% of the LGA expansion is being done with subcontractors? I am curious as to how they might spin it.
12-18-2011 | 07:33 AM
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12-18-2011 | 08:01 AM
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Ok, I did the math, here's how the percentages work out by miles flown rather than departures for the LGA Expansion. We get paid by the hour anyway, so that's what matters. There are a few minor mistakes, as a few destinations have, for example, all CRJ700s but 1 CRJ900. I just counted that as all CRJ700s.
Also, it was easy to find the miles from LGA to each destination, and since I'm not going to get into how fast each plane files vs scheduled vs "we always fly faster than the flt plan" or whatever, the percentages still work out.
EMB145: 23.6%
CRJ700: 11.6%
CRJ900: 31.0%
E170/175: 20.5
M88: 9.3%
B737: 4.0%
Mainline is 13.3% while DCI is 86.7%.
Also, it was easy to find the miles from LGA to each destination, and since I'm not going to get into how fast each plane files vs scheduled vs "we always fly faster than the flt plan" or whatever, the percentages still work out.
EMB145: 23.6%
CRJ700: 11.6%
CRJ900: 31.0%
E170/175: 20.5
M88: 9.3%
B737: 4.0%
Mainline is 13.3% while DCI is 86.7%.
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