Moak and Cohen on Diane Rehm Right Now
11-18-2012 | 11:59 AM
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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.
11-18-2012 | 04:43 PM
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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.
11-18-2012 | 06:23 PM
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11-19-2012 | 09:06 AM
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From: Douglas Aerospace post production Flight Test & Work Around Engineering bulletin dissembler
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.
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.
11-29-2012 | 09:56 AM
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11-29-2012 | 10:28 AM
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Andy has to be the most or only published journalist in aviation at WSJ. Unfortunately he is consistently wrong. After the Colgan crash he was quoted as saying that in discussing "actual" time there were referring to time spent in icing conditions. It is too bad they can't find someone who can actually do some research and report properly.
11-29-2012 | 08:04 PM
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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.
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.
