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#9591
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Joined APC: Feb 2008
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Han Solo is right. You fly whatever aircraft you can make the most money on. If I had two houses for rent, one paid off that earned 3000 a month cash flow and another with a mortgage that earned 2000 a month cash flow, and I can only have one tenant, am I going to let the paid off house sit empty or the mortgaged house?
The reason md88s will be parked is because of higher operating costs due to fuel/mx, not because of how the debt is structured.
The reason md88s will be parked is because of higher operating costs due to fuel/mx, not because of how the debt is structured.
In your example if you wanted to get higher rents you could easily afford to leave a house vacant and pull it from the market reducing capacity and driving up rates. If you had a large monthly payment on both house you would be more inclined to keep both houses rented even at reduced rates. AMR and UAL will be more inclined to keep their houses rented. Delta less so.
#9592
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Joined APC: Jul 2010
Position: window seat
Posts: 12,522
Fortunately because of luck and timing beyond any executive team's control, Skubus, Maxjet, Eos and others are no longer an industry wide threat and some of the previous so called LCC's have been mitigated. SWA is at least a rational competitor now, AT is gone, JB has at least partially cost-matured and VA has been absorbed.
However more threats remain, such as ULCC's Allegiant and Frontier attempting endless growth mode into traditional markets, JB's rapid foray into mission critical legacy markets with premium products at yield crushing fire sale prices, ME3's possibly fake multi year self evaluation period which may end up resulting in nothing but more dual subsidized poaching of our markets, and labor busting/scab-adjacent schemes like NAI continue to metastasize.
Meanwhile we continue to light billions and billions and billions of dollars on fire that we'll never get back and will one day end up wishing we had, as we once again entertain the strategy of temporary savings at the cost of permanent marketshare, revenue and profits.
In any case I don't entirely disagree with the 88 accumulator theory to a point. Primarily because they are fuel and increasing MX hogs as well as noise and possibly nav issues as well.
#9593
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Joined APC: Dec 2006
Position: 737 FO
Posts: 2,370
You are missing the point. The original thread was about capacity reduction. Delta can reduce capacity cheaper than other airlines because they have aircraft that incur no costs while parked. (MD88)That means that management is more likely to reduce capacity than AMR or UAL.
In your example if you wanted to get higher rents you could easily afford to leave a house vacant and pull it from the market reducing capacity and driving up rates. If you had a large monthly payment on both house you would be more inclined to keep both houses rented even at reduced rates. AMR and UAL will be more inclined to keep their houses rented. Delta less so.
In your example if you wanted to get higher rents you could easily afford to leave a house vacant and pull it from the market reducing capacity and driving up rates. If you had a large monthly payment on both house you would be more inclined to keep both houses rented even at reduced rates. AMR and UAL will be more inclined to keep their houses rented. Delta less so.
These are all hypothetical numbers.
Let's say an MD-88 costs 10 cents per seat mile in fuel and 10 in maintenance.
Meanwhile AMR is operating on the same route a A319 that costs on average 6 cents per seat mile in fuel, 5 in maintenance and 9 in lease payments.
In this example the costs per seat mile end up being the same (although I think the numbers skew so that with fuel prices like they have been the -88 is cheaper).
If both carriers park the associated aircraft DL now has a zero cost aircraft while AMR has to make payments for the leases as if it was flying a full schedule, reducing the cost advantages of parking it. It might cost the same amount to fly either one, but the cost advantages to not fly it are smaller.
Something no one has mentioned either is that leased aircraft are required to be maintained in airworthy condition for the duration of the lease per contract terms so, unlike an -88 where you can park them as checks become due, the leased aircraft cannot be parked with maintenance outstanding. Many of the lease terms actually require the aircraft be kept in active service as part of this requirement as well. I remember one of the majors (I think it was American) being sued at one point for parking leased aircraft.
What I'm getting at is it's not just a cost thing for operating the aircraft as there are additional rules at play with a leased or mortgaged aircraft that they don't have to worry about one they own outright.
#9594
I'd like to give this a go.
These are all hypothetical numbers.
Let's say an MD-88 costs 10 cents per seat mile in fuel and 10 in maintenance.
Meanwhile AMR is operating on the same route a A319 that costs on average 6 cents per seat mile in fuel, 5 in maintenance and 9 in lease payments.
In this example the costs per seat mile end up being the same (although I think the numbers skew so that with fuel prices like they have been the -88 is cheaper).
If both carriers park the associated aircraft DL now has a zero cost aircraft while AMR has to make payments for the leases as if it was flying a full schedule, reducing the cost advantages of parking it. It might cost the same amount to fly either one, but the cost advantages to not fly it are smaller.
Something no one has mentioned either is that leased aircraft are required to be maintained in airworthy condition for the duration of the lease per contract terms so, unlike an -88 where you can park them as checks become due, the leased aircraft cannot be parked with maintenance outstanding. Many of the lease terms actually require the aircraft be kept in active service as part of this requirement as well. I remember one of the majors (I think it was American) being sued at one point for parking leased aircraft.
What I'm getting at is it's not just a cost thing for operating the aircraft as there are additional rules at play with a leased or mortgaged aircraft that they don't have to worry about one they own outright.
These are all hypothetical numbers.
Let's say an MD-88 costs 10 cents per seat mile in fuel and 10 in maintenance.
Meanwhile AMR is operating on the same route a A319 that costs on average 6 cents per seat mile in fuel, 5 in maintenance and 9 in lease payments.
In this example the costs per seat mile end up being the same (although I think the numbers skew so that with fuel prices like they have been the -88 is cheaper).
If both carriers park the associated aircraft DL now has a zero cost aircraft while AMR has to make payments for the leases as if it was flying a full schedule, reducing the cost advantages of parking it. It might cost the same amount to fly either one, but the cost advantages to not fly it are smaller.
Something no one has mentioned either is that leased aircraft are required to be maintained in airworthy condition for the duration of the lease per contract terms so, unlike an -88 where you can park them as checks become due, the leased aircraft cannot be parked with maintenance outstanding. Many of the lease terms actually require the aircraft be kept in active service as part of this requirement as well. I remember one of the majors (I think it was American) being sued at one point for parking leased aircraft.
What I'm getting at is it's not just a cost thing for operating the aircraft as there are additional rules at play with a leased or mortgaged aircraft that they don't have to worry about one they own outright.
#9595
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Joined APC: May 2015
Position: LAV
Posts: 187
Does anyone know what weight LOR's have on your Delta application? Do more of them increase your chances of getting called or do they only consider them during the interview itself?
I'm talking about LOR's attached to the Airline App's application, not LOR's emailed by pilots to pilot recruitment.
I'm talking about LOR's attached to the Airline App's application, not LOR's emailed by pilots to pilot recruitment.
#9597
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Joined APC: Mar 2016
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Posts: 1,906
#9598
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#9599
Interesting goings on right now. If any of ya'll read other airlines threads, you will see that practically everybody is slowing if not outright stopping hiring.
Draw whatever conclusions you will, but there might be an indicator in there somewhere.
Draw whatever conclusions you will, but there might be an indicator in there somewhere.
#9600
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Joined APC: Nov 2017
Posts: 12
Actually had odd paperwork in log book in a 88 two days ago that stated Delta was in process of purchasing the 88 and this was the temporary airworthiness. Sounds like they are buying out the lease or something to that affect. Can’t become a parts bin if you don’t buy the parts?
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