DAL & NWA Pilots To Take Contract to Management on May 29th
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Mesa got an injunction against Delta today. It does not look like Delta is going to be able to walk away from their DCI contracts. It would be hard to imagine Delta walking away from Comair after sinking more than 3Bn into that operation.
It may be that 50 seaters replace DC9's and today's little legal development did not help matters.
It may be that 50 seaters replace DC9's and today's little legal development did not help matters.
#22
Mesa got an injunction against Delta today. It does not look like Delta is going to be able to walk away from their DCI contracts. It would be hard to imagine Delta walking away from Comair after sinking more than 3Bn into that operation.
It may be that 50 seaters replace DC9's and today's little legal development did not help matters.
It may be that 50 seaters replace DC9's and today's little legal development did not help matters.
#23
Carl
#24
Mesa got an injunction against Delta today. It does not look like Delta is going to be able to walk away from their DCI contracts. It would be hard to imagine Delta walking away from Comair after sinking more than 3Bn into that operation.
It may be that 50 seaters replace DC9's and today's little legal development did not help matters.
It may be that 50 seaters replace DC9's and today's little legal development did not help matters.
And as far as the 9s go...posts on the DALPA boards say an FAA MX inspector who was on board an AC recently is one of the MX guys working on the combined plan and there are no -9s in it. Again...just rumor....
#25
thats funny i just heard a rumor from a FAA MX inspector that DAL was parking all their 22 year old 767s. Heard that on the NWA FA board, Again its just a rumor....
#26
The fleet flexibility created by the merger could give us tremendous flexibility. Right now, DAL has no in between aircraft on the 757-200 and the 767-300. However, the "new" DAL will have the 757-300s. They may be sufficient to replace some 767s. The 767ERs and some 777s will likely go to MSP and DTW and ATL may get the larger guage A330s and 747s. MD-80s may leave SLC for DTW and SLC gets A320s that are better suited for the longer haul flying out of there. Hard to say but adding the complexities of multiple fleet types may be offset by the flexibility we get from them.
I'm still trying to be optimistic about this even with the sabre rattling going on.
#28
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Joined APC: Feb 2008
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Parking the DC-9's is not rumor. NWA's premerger fleet plan for 08 had them being reduced from over 100 aircraft to 68. Just a few years ago there were 160 DC-9's. Recent changes bring that number down to around 60 at the end of the year. That is a loss of over 40 aircraft this year. I don't think you could phase them out any faster if you wanted to.
#30
Mesa got an injunction against Delta today. It does not look like Delta is going to be able to walk away from their DCI contracts. It would be hard to imagine Delta walking away from Comair after sinking more than 3Bn into that operation.
It may be that 50 seaters replace DC9's and today's little legal development did not help matters.
It may be that 50 seaters replace DC9's and today's little legal development did not help matters.
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