Wait- What?!? So it AVERAGED a 1/2 hour flight leg? Am I reading that right?

If it has 2 aisles it should pay 777/350 rates. Like American and United.

C2019 is the perfect time to make this happen along with 5:15 vacation, training and min day.

Probably didn't include ground time.

Yep...just give us international VB's, more large RJ's and a massive pro-KA imbalanced JV, a company Dr. note for all sick calls, one more hour to the ALV and an 8th short call.

See how easy that was.

Sounds pretty ******* clumsy. This isn't Africa we're trying to work - it's only the #1 market in the world and we're 1) giving up our nook at Tokyo and 2) now onto another attempt to work with someone in Korean.

We did not give up our nook in Tokyo, it is dead and buried by better aircraft and a very crafty move by the Japanese to open up Haneda to international flights. China has not worked out because our potential partner wants all the Pacific flying with us doing zero.
That was the same thing KAL wanted a few years back that led to a pullback in that relationship. Fortunently for us they bought a shipping company that is dragging them down and they came back to the table hat in hand.

Two man enter, one man leaves!

Take the time to see who fills the routes we are abandoning in Narita.

Or do you think no airline will?

Clueless.

If they are profitable why would we drop them? RA was anything but a fool when it came to route planning and as he stated many times each route needed to pull its weight. Next time you are in ATL for training walk over to the Marketing area and talk with the folks running Asia. I suspect you might find it enlighting and you might actually be surprised at how competent they actually are.

Gzsg walking into Delta Marketing to speak his knowledge of airline economics is similar to what we'll see soon when McGregor walks into the ring with Mayweather to show his boxing skills.