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Originally Posted by seattlepilot
(Post 1295148)
It doesn't help when "entry level " airlines are providing half the lift in the domestic market. You must be one of those high and mighty major guys that didn't want to fly the 50 seater jets because they belong to the entry level world..
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That's may not be true. Xjt/ Asa does 870,000 departures a year second only to southwest and if they include mainline Skywest it's 1.4 million which is the most departures in the country by one company.
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Now that is split between uncial and dal but ual is more than half of that so somewhere in the 650,000 departures.
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Originally Posted by sailingfun
(Post 1295317)
I am not sure where you get your numbers but Delta outsources as much or more of their lift then anyone and its currently about 13 % of the domestic available lift for the company.
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Originally Posted by 80ktsClamp
(Post 1295452)
The amount of departures is around 50%.
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FWIW, Delta has been shifting flying back to mainline. Over Thanksgiving week, Delta departures are down 10.9 percent, but seats are only down 8.8 percent. That makes us the fastest shrinking domestic carrier by departures, but United is shrinking faster by absolute capacity.
It makes sense. If it takes 2 or 3 RJ's to feed a 757, the loss of a mainline jet has a proportionately higher toll on Regional carriers. |
Originally Posted by shiznit
(Post 1293667)
Your screen name fits your intellectual prejudice.
NPR has been found over and over again to be one of the least biased media sources available in the US. You are right Shiznit. There is no better, non spin news than the Jim Lehrer News Hour! |
Originally Posted by 701EV
(Post 1293885)
Andy Pasztor stated that Express Jet hired 800 pilots in the last two years. I dont think ASA/Express Jet has hired 800 pilots in the last five years maybe even longer.
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Originally Posted by Gillegan
(Post 1293994)
I just listened to the interview and I have to say that even by the low standards of some of his predecessors, Capt. Moak fails to impress. What I heard is exactly what has failed ALPA in the past 20 years - a failure to take the long view on what has happened (willingness to entirely surrender their share of the growth to the regionals in exchange for a few pieces of silver) and what is going to happen (MPL). I strongly disagree that things are just fine with major airline pay. On the average, major airline pay has done an abysmal job of keeping up with inflation. Sure, there are some bright spots amidst the doom but it is obvious that the ALPA president views the profession from the paradigm of his own position - a senior DAL captain. To call the statement that the profession has lost its allure, "hogwash" is to ignore the basic economics of what is happening.
I'm starting to like the idea more and more to pay the President of ALPA the salary of the lowest paid captain that he/she represents. |
Originally Posted by Gillegan
(Post 1293994)
...pay the President of ALPA the salary of the lowest paid captain that he/she represents.
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