All future DAL classes delayed indefinitely?
#21
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Why would DAL continue hiring as planned when they announced on 18 Mar (ATLANTA-AP) that they are cutting capacity by an extra 5% and offering voluntary severance packages to 30,000 of its 55,044 full time employees?
Sorry, not trying to rain on anyones parade but maybe some DAL guys on here could help with the inside story.
Sorry, not trying to rain on anyones parade but maybe some DAL guys on here could help with the inside story.
#22
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Why would DAL continue hiring as planned when they announced on 18 Mar (ATLANTA-AP) that they are cutting capacity by an extra 5% and offering voluntary severance packages to 30,000 of its 55,044 full time employees?
Sorry, not trying to rain on anyones parade but maybe some DAL guys on here could help with the inside story.
Sorry, not trying to rain on anyones parade but maybe some DAL guys on here could help with the inside story.
Delta is seeking to cut only 2000 employees 700 of which will be management. Only 1300 frontline jobs are being removed.
#23
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Joined APC: Aug 2007
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Why would DAL continue hiring as planned when they announced on 18 Mar (ATLANTA-AP) that they are cutting capacity by an extra 5% and offering voluntary severance packages to 30,000 of its 55,044 full time employees?
Sorry, not trying to rain on anyones parade but maybe some DAL guys on here could help with the inside story.
Sorry, not trying to rain on anyones parade but maybe some DAL guys on here could help with the inside story.
We are at 40% international of total capacity currently, aiming for 51% when Hauenstein's current plan is implemented.
FWIW.
#25
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Joined APC: Dec 2007
Position: DAL 330
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Why would DAL continue hiring as planned when they announced on 18 Mar (ATLANTA-AP) that they are cutting capacity by an extra 5% and offering voluntary severance packages to 30,000 of its 55,044 full time employees?
Sorry, not trying to rain on anyones parade but maybe some DAL guys on here could help with the inside story.
Sorry, not trying to rain on anyones parade but maybe some DAL guys on here could help with the inside story.
Also as bad as the news has been DAL is still growing its fleet this year. We are receiving 22 777's, 757's, and 737's this year and next year and now plan on parking 15-20 older domestic planes. So even without the higher crew ratio we may still need to continue hiring for now. Also we are still undermanned for pilots according to the last system bid and recently won a staffing grievance with the company that they are trying to correct with current hiring. Of course this can all change in a moment, but thats where we are for now.
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Last edited by Scoop; 03-19-2008 at 03:16 PM.
#26
The last AE bid had 80 unfilled postions on the 767ER in NYC alone.
#27
Hope they don't forget the past.
Pan Am's founder, Juan Trippe, was the world's first airline tycoon, the imperial skygod, his company the aviation pioneer that came to be known as America's Imperial Airline. First to fly the Pacific, first across the Atlantic, first around the world—Pan Am was once one of the most glamorous and best-known global corporations. Its worldwide headquarters—the crown jewel—was on Manhattan's Park Avenue, the Pan Am Building, the world's largest corporate office building at the time. Pan Am had more international destinations than any other airline, flying to 113 cities in 81 countries, from Capetown to Moscow, Oslo to Buenos Aires. The other airlines at the time "were domestics, like Greyhound Bus," says Robert Gandt, author of the book Skygods: The Fall of Pan Am. Pan Am would have "no miserable lunches in places like Des Moines or Cincinnati or Boise. For them it would be sushi in Tokyo, petit déjeuner in Paris, tea in London."
#29
Compared to all that, I would love a good old fashioned hamburger in our "Des Moines".
#30
Then perhaps Greyhound would be a more suitable career for you.
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