More cuts in MEM
11-28-2012 | 10:19 AM
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FDX deadheads thousands of pilots out of MEM on Delta to start their trips in a different city (on FDX dime not a commuter/nonrev thing). Having to go thru ATL or another hub eats up lots of their duty time and they can no longer fly on DL AND do their FDX trip the same day. So FDX pays them for another duty day/hotel etc. Its gotten so bad that FDX have been deadheading crews on their corporate lears.
A company that employees 200,000 people and is based out of Memphis isn't going to care when the airline providing major air service to the city pulls out? Of course they care, it isn't just pilots that travel. I don't understand how this would be that hard to figure out.
11-28-2012 | 10:27 AM
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This isn't a customer service issue. It's all about maximizing fleet usage and efficiency. Delta is extremely good at this. If planes can be used better elsewhere than thats what Delta is going to do. Delta just swept all 10 categories in the annual Business Travelers News rankings so I'd say Delta is doing just fine in taking care of their customers. Here is the header if you want to google the article, "Delta repeats as BTN survey champ, sweeps all 10 categories"
11-28-2012 | 10:49 AM
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11-28-2012 | 10:50 AM
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If Fed Ex wants to pay more for tickets or buy more of them I'm sure DAL can offer them service. However flying airplanes at a loss is never good business. I have said for quite a while "It doesn't matter what business your in, you must charge enough on the product to turn a profit" It doesn't matter if you have customers wrapped around the block if your selling at a loss...unless its some kind of firesale to liquidate. I don't think we are there yet.
11-28-2012 | 10:53 AM
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Has nothing to do with routes being unprofitable. Memphis was developed by NWA as a counter to Deltas hub in Atlanta, Continental in Houston, and American in DFW. Now that NWA and Delta have merged, there is no need for Memphis, as all those passengers that were routed on NWA through Memphis are now routed to Atlanta. The only service left in Memphis will be what is supported by local Memphis traffic, just like CVG. Everybody with a clue knew that the day the NWA/DL merger was announced CVG and MEM would lose flights and be de hubbed. Well, everybody except the politicians who believed the Delta execs when they said the merger would not affect any of the hubs. Too bad they didn't get that in writing.
Eventually though they will get subsidized foreign 777/380 service to a big fancy international market, simply because those ponzi scheme airlines will have no other place to put their vastly overpurchased metal, and the bellys of those beasts will be full of ultra cheap cargo capacity, further hammering FedEx and DHL respectively in addition to the mean old legacies.
11-28-2012 | 11:34 AM
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