Re: Airbus Looking for Potential Delivery Spots for United

I cannot understand why most people believe that Airbus owes something to United. Well, this is some kind of a 'blue chip' airline. So what? Why would Airbus produce aircraft for the lowest imaginable pricing? Especially while annoying other customers. How do we know that some kind of Lufthansa or ...

Airbus Looking for Potential Delivery Spots for United

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-26/airbus-hunts-for-delivery-slots-to-win-over-key-boeing-customer Per the Bloomberg article: “Airbus is seeking to persuade customers to return some aircraft delivery slots that it could then hand over to United Airlines Holdings, going all out for th...

Re: Delta Air Lines Fleet - 2023

I strongly suspect the price they are paying for 339s, which could likely be described as "larceny," does not leave a lot of room to find used 333s of appropriate quality for Delta and then refurbish them into something that can fly alongside the current 333 fleet without any friction. Do...

Re: Delta Air Lines Fleet - 2023

United has two 764 sims, Delta one. It’s easier for United to maintain a common pool having two sims. That has nothing to do with it, its contractual and how the PFD is set up at each respective carrier. How do you plan to maintain landing currency on a massive fleet of 752/763 pilots with one sim?...

Re: Delta Air Lines Fleet - 2023

TonyClifton wrote:

United has two 764 sims, Delta one. It’s easier for United to maintain a common pool having two sims.

Re: Delta Air Lines Fleet - 2023

What deliveries are expected for Delta for 2023? 93 aircraft are planned to enter the fleet in 2023 through new deliveries (47), previously owned (38), and reactivated from previously parked aircraft (8). It's important to note that the reactivations had been removed from Delta's fleet list. 47 New...

Re: Delta Air Lines Fleet - 2023

Retirement for the 767-300ER off international service is not confirmed. Based upon lots of moving factors I've heard roughly 2028 for the 767-300ER. The planes will be kept around for domestic runs for a while after based in ATL as a flex fleet since the cost is basically nothing. The PW4060 engin...

Re: 1Q 2023 US Airline Earnings

Almost that time again. "United Airlines unexpectedly forecasts quarterly loss on lower demand, pilot pay" https://finance.yahoo.com/news/united-airlines-forecasts-first-quarter-204612923.html "CHICAGO (Reuters) -United Airlines Holdings Inc on Monday forecast an unexpected loss in t...

Re: Delta Air Lines Fleet - 2023

e7plnr wrote:

Need to add 4 752s for reactivation in 2023.
No more new A350 deliveries until 2024.

Re: Delta Air Lines Fleet - 2023

What deliveries are expected for Delta for 2023? 93 aircraft are planned to enter the fleet in 2023 through new deliveries (47), previously owned (38), and reactivated from previously parked aircraft (8). It's important to note that the reactivations had been removed from Delta's fleet list. 47 New...

Re: Delta Pilots Vote to Authorize a Strike

So Delta puts 16% of your gross pay into a 401k? Up to the IRS limit of $61,000 under age 50 and $67,000 over age 50? What do they do for pilots earning over $400k? If you contribute the max personal amount to your 401k the income cap is arounf 265k not 400k, so virtually every captain and a good c...

Re: Delta Fleet Thread - 2022

At several company events in the past few days management has announced an upcoming order for around 20 A350-1000s. I'm guessing part or all of Qatars order book. I also understand theres 6 finished Qatar 350s in Tolouse currently?

Re: Delta Fleet Thread - 2022

Additional WB deal being worked out. Possible new derivative of A350. ;) About this new derivative of A350, is this about new configuration or an actual derivative such as A350-1000? Its about an actual new derivative. During a flight ops townhall wednesday the Delta President said sometime by the ...

Re: US Airline Q2 Earnings Forecast --- mostly profits

The fact is that UA has more wide body frames that AA and DL combined. Fuel is more expensive outside the USA and also at certain locations in the USA. Those AA ASM's were mostly on A320 and B737 fleets and AA has a larger domestic presence than UA. If I read correctly AA now has a larger domestic ...

Rumor: Delta 330 order

Potentially as soon as tomorrow we could see a small order from Delta for some additional A330s. Not sure if these will be new or used just yet.

Re: DL drops Cape Town from JNB-ATL schedule

And although Delta pays pilots based upon weight, I believe the pay scale is the same as the 777. That is what this would suggest https://www.aviationinterviews.com/pilot/payrates/delta-air-lines-27.html I'm not sure where they got this info but its not correct. https://www.airlinepilotcentral.com/...

Re: Rumor: Used Delta Aircraft Order

You don't know what you're talking about with the 717s. The company owned ones were scrapped for parts, however a grand total of 0 have been returned to BCC. Another 3 more are scheduled to come out of storage and get C checks and the seatback AD. All of the stored 717s are still on the opspec. The...

Re: Rumor: Used Delta Aircraft Order

With replacement and the huge retirements, DL will talk. I think with narrowbody aircraft there are many opportunities. With negative interest rates, leasing companies will be happy to place on good terms. A350s? Only really good deals with some quantity to help ease planning to conform to standard...

Re: Rumor: Used Delta Aircraft Order

That is correct, they have been added to internal fleet summary. Expect an announcement this week. Earnings on Wednesday will likely be the day. I expect the announcement on Tuesday or very possibly tomorrow. No longer a rumor, order has now been officially announced by Delta. https://news.delta.co...

Re: Rumor: Used Delta Aircraft Order

Looks like they have scooped up some young viable A350s. Now we shall see if the 737 portion of the rumor is correct. Congrats on the Airbus widebodies. More than I expected, a nice fleet replacement. I too wonder about narrowbodies. I expect some mid-size used orders, but I also expect something t...

Re: Rumor: Used Delta Aircraft Order

+ 29 737-900ERs & + 7 350-900s. A little birdie told me the internal fleet summary doc have them included. That is correct, they have been added to internal fleet summary. Expect an announcement this week. Earnings on Wednesday will likely be the day. I expect the announcement on Tuesday or ver...

Re: Rumor: Used Delta Aircraft Order

Cactusjuba wrote:

+ 29 737-900ERs & + 7 350-900s. A little birdie told me the internal fleet summary doc have them included.

Re: Rumor: Used Delta Aircraft Order

SESGDL wrote:

T773ER wrote:

It appears as it s a done deal. 7 former LATAM A350s and 29 ex Lion Air 737-900ERs.

Source?

Jeremy

Re: Rumor: Used Delta Aircraft Order

It appears as it s a done deal. 7 former LATAM A350s and 29 ex Lion Air 737-900ERs.

Re: Rumor: Used Delta Aircraft Order

STT757 wrote:

SunsetLimited wrote:

Norwegian MAX 8’s?

Yeah I don’t think it’s 73NGs, they just retired ten relatively new 73Gs. I’m guessing 737-8 Max, used or perhaps white tails?

Updated: Used Delta Aircraft Purchase A359/737-900ER

Based on internal rumors and recent hints from the VP of Flight Operations, Delta could announce an aircraft order in the coming days for around 7 A350s and 27-30 used 737s.

Re: Delta Pilots Approve New LOA, Cut Min Guarantee 5%, Inactive Pilots Cut to 30 Hours, NO Involuntary Layoffs Until 20

Minimum Guarantee actually stays the same at 72hrs, the rolling 12 month average guarantee was cut by up to 5% to go no lower than 72hrs. After a year this temporary cut becomes permanent which increases the staffing for pilots. It also includes positive space commuting for pilots as well as a Marke...

Re: Delta 3Q2019 earnings released

I noted the link noted a doubling of pilot overtime. Was that 1 hour to 2 per quarter or say 50 to 100? This implies hiring and aircraft buys ahead. Lightsaber According to this article the number was 40,554 from May to August. Although not clear I believe that is duty periods worked. So if that wa...

Re: Delta buying 20% of LATAM

Miami wrote:

Why is everyone freaking out?

Doubt LATAM leaves OneWorld.

Re: Delta to serve Mumbai nonstop in 2019

According to an email to its pilots, Delta still plans on announcing BOM service later this year. This was as of yesterday the 17th and in direct response to the suspension of Jet Airways. Unless Delta partners with Air India, Mumbai is a no go. Just tossing this out there! Though seriously, back t...

Re: Delta to serve Mumbai nonstop in 2019

According to an email to its pilots, Delta still plans on announcing BOM service later this year. This was as of yesterday the 17th and in direct response to the suspension of Jet Airways.

Re: Delta looking into accelerating MD-90 retirement

DL already has enough aircraft on order to replace a good portion (nearly all A320s and 757s, MD-80s and MD-90s and roughly half of the 717s) of the narrowbody fleet. Jeremy Not really (without options - options aren't orders) when you recognize that they're also replacing ~60 CR2s by 2023 and need...

Re: B6 Profit Sharing

DL paid out $1.3B in PS on Feb 14th. Average per employee was $16k. Regardless, each employee received 14.1% of eligible 2018 wages. I don’t have specific numbers other than my own payout, but I’d wager the average pilot PS was much more than $16k. Most captain PS checks are likely double 16k, with...

Re: Delta Air Lines announces 2018 Q4 results

A testament to Delta's revenue is the fact that it will come within $400-$500 million in total operating revenue of American Airlines, the current largest airline in the world(by revenue and fleet). However, Delta does this with almost 80 less mainline aircraft and 175 less regional jets. In 2019 it...

Delta Air Lines to ditch zone boarding in 2019