The upcoming Delta Connection shuffle.
11-04-2011 | 03:32 PM
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This sort of churn is actually beneficial for DAL in the long run...uprooting crews encourages major-eligible CA's to bail instead of settling into a comfortable situation to become expensive and pesky regional lifers.
Is DAL smart enough to actually factor this in? Who knows.
Is DAL smart enough to actually factor this in? Who knows.
Being a part of the process at multiple carriers multiple times, the mainline partner simply didn't care. All we heard from our managements was "you pilots are too expensive and need to get the costs down", so it effects EVERYBODY.
And don't forget, mechanics, FA's, etc are part of that equation as well.
11-06-2011 | 02:05 PM
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True but it causes immense additional costs and delays/cancelations by pulling a company so far from its crew/maintenance bases. Now if Delta wants to operate in a much more expensive way for the sake of avoiding a strike that hasn't even come close to happening since Comair in 01.... Well no wonder the passengers see right through the customer first B.S. they have been peddling.
11-06-2011 | 02:55 PM
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11-06-2011 | 06:11 PM
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If there is one thing I've learned from working for a DCI carrier it's this...take whatever you think is going to happen.......now take the complete opposite of that and thats what will actually happen...the more it makes sense, the more Delta will do the opposite, pure and simple...
11-07-2011 | 03:57 AM
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Why do we even think there is going to be a shuffle?
I havent heard or seen anything indicating that there is going to be a major shift in flying yet. Most of the time, I hear that the "marketing hours" arent complete until half way thru the previous month...
This could be as minor as moving regional flying from JFK to LGA; and having more flights flown by mainline like DL is doing in ATL.
From a 9E perspective, MEM has barely any flying left as compared to what we used to fly there. I would be suprised to see MEM go but, I wouldnt be suprised to see us move to LGA from JFK - Or our union sign yet another LOA and screw us with a co-terminal base.
I havent heard or seen anything indicating that there is going to be a major shift in flying yet. Most of the time, I hear that the "marketing hours" arent complete until half way thru the previous month...
This could be as minor as moving regional flying from JFK to LGA; and having more flights flown by mainline like DL is doing in ATL.
From a 9E perspective, MEM has barely any flying left as compared to what we used to fly there. I would be suprised to see MEM go but, I wouldnt be suprised to see us move to LGA from JFK - Or our union sign yet another LOA and screw us with a co-terminal base.
11-07-2011 | 04:35 AM
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11-07-2011 | 04:51 AM
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Although that's a nice collateral/downrange effect, I SERIOUSLY doubt the bean counters at DAL DCI care about what the seniority demographic is a XYZ DelCon carrier. ALL the DCI carrier is a line item cost, PERIOD. DAL management couldn't care less how the DelCon carrier achieves that cost.
Being a part of the process at multiple carriers multiple times, the mainline partner simply didn't care. All we heard from our managements was "you pilots are too expensive and need to get the costs down", so it effects EVERYBODY.
And don't forget, mechanics, FA's, etc are part of that equation as well.
Being a part of the process at multiple carriers multiple times, the mainline partner simply didn't care. All we heard from our managements was "you pilots are too expensive and need to get the costs down", so it effects EVERYBODY.
And don't forget, mechanics, FA's, etc are part of that equation as well.
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