^^^^^^^^^ good question. Or at least start the ball rolling with the MEC to change what airplanes can be reduced such that 76 seaters begin to replace 70 seaters who replaced 50 seaters who just get parked. Smaller DCI, but bigger jets as a % of the fleet. Is that a possibility?

 

No jets will be parked even if we demand. They will just pull out some coach seats and add two class service. Voilą no more 76 seaters but more revenue.

 

They need to do a negative weight mod on the Compass planes. Probably not a big deal since the Shuttle America planes are already flying at reduced weights.

 

Our first day of indoc at Delta was very gratifying. Because as BB said in the first minute, "Welcome to Delta Air Lines, everyone, take a deep breath, you've got a number." And that really says it all. Even if given the chance to interview, even if you pass day 1, then day 2, if everything goes right and you get a call for a class, it means nothing until you walk in the door.

Basically, believe it when you see it. Anything can happen even if you're hired normally, much less waiting months or years for a flow. With that said, looks like there is hope from Ten Years Gone post on the other thread:

""""Hiring; 5000 and growing to 10000 in pool..59% interview success rate. First class of furlough recalls start 8/2, then first class of new hires 8/16. Will honor flow-thru for Compass/Mesaba pilots pending negotiations. 900 pilots in retirement zone (60-65) by summer 2011, another 1300 by 2012..could see hiring for several yrs but not yet approved""""

 

If Delta didn't want anything smaller than a CRJ-700 and EMB-170 on property, is selling CPZ and Mesaba and the ensuing mess it makes the way to do it, or to start to do it?

For a while you saw 75's doing 76 trips, 73s and MD88s doing 757/737 trips, CRJ900/700s doing MD88 trips, and CRJ200s doing CRJ900/700 trips, but now do we see a reversal? A flow back the other way especially now you can plug a whole new fleet of Airbus's, 753s and DC9s into the NB mix. By the time things settle MD88s are rarely going ATL-LGA and ATL-ORF goes from nearly all RJs to all MD88s, for example.

 

The MEC will probably have many interesting things to discuss next week. Call your reps, they are answering their phones and messages.

 

The MEC conference call was a whole lot of nothing really. Just reaffirming the MEC's position that we want to keep the flow around.

We also got another email from the compass president today saying the company wants to keep it around as well.

 

We get a pay raise, voila', no more revenue......first class seats on oceanic DH and voila', no more revenue......

 

I think they could do this, but is it cost advantageous? They keep preaching how much we rely on the HVC. What does a HVC want? First Class seats. The 76 seaters make $$$ because First Class is available. Less 1st class seats=Less HVC revenue.

IDK. Just thinking.

 

I think hes saying there will be more first class seats.

I dont want to speak for him so maybe he can confirm, but what I think he was saying is if delta is forced to pull down 76 seaters they will just remove coach seats and add more first class.

Current config is 12 first 64 coach.

70 seat config would be something like 16 first 54 coach.