If Delta doesn't resume operations on Concourse C within the next 90 days then the airport should take them away and give them to other airlines who desperately need ATL gates. It is clear that Delta has more than enough gates to meet their needs. This will be an irrelevant issue well within that t...
Jump to postAgreed, but DL wants that mainline frequency* in/out of ATL to small/med. markets in the south. *I'm not betting against PSU.DTW.SCE's guess of 8-10 banks in ATL. In fact, I'd likely take the under. Eh, even now ATL is at 7 banks. Not too far under, of course with many less pax than before COVID. T...
Jump to postMaybe, but remember most of us are already under 25% pay cuts. There have some nominal benefit cuts as well. But wasn't that 25% pay reduction introduced as a temporary measure intended to help weather the worst of the pandemic? Wasn't it driven by moving from a 5-day/40-hour work week to a 4-day/3...
Jump to postI would also like to hear a clearer plan/timeline for insourcing work. There's been bits and pieces, but nothing comprehensive. I'm not expecting anything with any specificity until early August after all the retirements are finalized then a week or two to put things together, but from the way they...
Jump to postI would also like to hear a clearer plan/timeline for insourcing work. There's been bits and pieces, but nothing comprehensive. I'm not expecting anything with any specificity until early August after all the retirements are finalized then a week or two to put things together, but from the way they...
Jump to postI believe RDU is a seasonal AFP. It could've been upgraded to year round and I missed it though.
Jump to post-CVG and HNL will transition from bases to AFP’s with approximately 80 flight attendants each. -ORM, SAS and TPM AFPs closing. -SFO will transition from base to AFP; will retain current staffing but no backfill for attrition. -EWR will no longer be a coterminal for NY-based crews. EWR flights will ...
Jump to postOf note as well is there isn't a pilot early out package to my knowledge as ALPA needs to sign off and I don't believe that has happened. Pilots are a large group of that 90,000 employees.
Jump to postIf it's 30% I'll be stupefied, maybe for flight attendants but for ACS as an overall number I'd be shocked.
Jump to postNot quite, no more leaves or extensions will be given for ACS in Atlanta (assuming other workgroups are not affected but not sure) but all previously approved leaves will continue. Not everyone is coming back, but they're going to get what anecdotally seems to be a fair bunch of people back like me...
Jump to postFinally, any new airport would have to attract airlines and passengers. Hartsfield-Jackson in any given year has the lowest or second lowest airline costs in the nation. No airline is clamoring for a new airfield because every airline understands that there is no possible situation in which the air...
Jump to postIn an email today, employees in ATL were told that starting July 1st all personal leaves will be terminated. No further leave requests or extensions will be granted. Daily flights will be over 400 per day in July as well. That is 40% of the same time last year. Question is, ATL will now be staffed ...
Jump to postIn an email today, employees in ATL were told that starting July 1st all personal leaves will be terminated. No further leave requests or extensions will be granted. Daily flights will be over 400 per day in July as well. That is 40% of the same time last year. Question is, ATL will now be staffed ...
Jump to postGovernor Kemp isn't dumb with his political geography, any site for a second airport is politically suicidal as those are now swing counties on the north side of Atlanta where a second airport would be. Everyone is mildly approving (but the issue won't change their vote) unless the airport site is n...
Jump to postBastian's comment was made after the retirement of the 777 fleet had been announced. I think something's cooked. Maybe Boeing will take the 717's and 777's off Delta's hands as part of an order. Boeing is hurting on several fronts. Not the least of which are the troubles and cancellations in the MA...
Jump to postBastian's comment was made after the retirement of the 777 fleet had been announced. I think something's cooked. Maybe Boeing will take the 717's and 777's off Delta's hands as part of an order. Boeing is hurting on several fronts. Not the least of which are the troubles and cancellations in the MA...
Jump to postSo if a Delta employee takes a leave of absence, they can sign up for Unemployment? In Ga the company automatically applies to the Dept of Labor an unemployment claim for every LOA employee. I think it was a deal between the company and the state. Do a few mass enrollments instead of a lot of indiv...
Jump to postWhat are you talking about? DTW-MSP is 530 miles. United has LAX and SFO (337mi) and IAD and EWR (212mi). AA has CLT and DCA (330mi)... and PHL (450mi). SWA has LAX and OAK (340 mi), DAL and STL (546mi). B6 has JFK and BOS. Alaska has PDX and SEA, LAX and SFO... the list goes on. Literally EVERY ot...
Jump to postThat was a possible explanation I heard from someone because between UA and DL for a 773, UA was offering 14 PMC positions and DL was offering only 7 PMC positions. Both of these were for a pax jet being used as a freighter, basically, with no passengers. And it wasn't that DL had just already sold...
Jump to postSome are saying JFK is the next one. Also, I heard this: DL apparently didn't feel the need to install floor locks across the entire belly space of their widebodies, so for now, they're not able to offer the same amount of cargo space as UA, which does have floor locks across the entire belly space...
Jump to postMy guess would be the Providence College men's basketball team returning from a tournament in Anaheim. I don't know for sure though.
Jump to postIt doesn't make sense for DL to come in with such a small position. IMO DL should be given carte blanche and take a 49% stake, on condition that they maintain fleet size, staff and connectivity to Italy. Everything else up to them. Hold up, why would DL agree to those conditions given that those th...
Jump to postI'm going to say one will be MUC-ATL. With the amount of German auto companies in the area, I'm surprised it's not served already. Their FRA flight does really well even with the entry of QR and TK While there is assuredly some overlap, the German auto companies in the Atlanta area are Mercedes and...
Jump to postIt's not about GDP - its about attracting a type of business traveler that lives and travels between a set of cities with a P2P network. Anyway, we will see what happens but I just don't see Delta starting alot of new flights between SJC/AUS/RDU/BNA/BOS and MCO/TPA/LAS. OTOH I do predict that they ...
Jump to postAnd give it two years - I will be surprised if DL still flies MSP-HND (or PDX-HND - it is only a matter of time that JL jumps on the route in partnership with AS). I find it really hard to believe that DL will be able to profitably fly seven daily into HND - one each of SEA/PDX/LAX/MSP/DTW/ATL/HNL-...
Jump to postSince last week I've been watching Endeavor and the yo-yo continues. Sunday: 94 cancellations, 53 delays Monday: 74 cancellations, 212 delays Tuesday: 2 cancellations, 94 delays It seems almost impossible that an airline could perform so miserably for two days without getting planes out of position...
Jump to postDOT Ranking of Major Airport On-Time Arrival Performance Year-to-date through October 2018 Rank Jan 1 - October 31, 2018 % 1 Honolulu, HI (HNL) 88.32 2 Salt Lake City, UT (SLC) 85.65 3 Atlanta, GA (ATL) 84.07 4 Detroit, MI (DTW) 83.84 5 Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN (MSP) 83.81 6 Portland, OR (PDX) 83.2...
Jump to postVS have a major issue looming, if Brexit goes the No Deal route. That is looking possible. Branson will have to buy back the AF/KL stake or cancel the deal to push VS back into the 50%+1 UK shareholding rules. This is apparently built into the AF agreement. The other option is for DL to divest some...
Jump to postJetBlue’s biggest threat imho is DL, and they aren’t alone. DL is positioned to siphon traffic away from other carriers in a boa-like fashion. It’s been a years-long process and it isn’t over, but until DL has a setback they will continue to work to strangle other carriers with their product and ne...
Jump to postI'll reask the question, what does UA get out of merging with B6 that they want? FLL is not a southern hub, it's a Florida/Caribbean/Latin America hub. Nice to have, but worth $10 billion when IAH exists as an ok substitute, not to mention the Caribbean and Latin American coverage from EWR and IAD? ...
Jump to postThis may just be me, but why would UA want B6? UA doesn't need 200 JFK slots, only 16-20. They have EWR and don't need JFK (except maybe for some transcons). BOS also doesn't fit UA's public plans right now, which is building up their contested hub markets and growing marketshare in them. FLL may be...
Jump to postFor DL, ATL has 117 exclusive (or basically so for the 10 old AirTran gates on D South) gates T-D, with an additional 28 preferential-use (I believe they are preferential but could be wrong and they're common-use with priority to international flights) gates on E and 6 preferential-use gates on F. D...
Jump to postAs far as unrestricted frequencies go, DL does have 21, not 14, same as UA (DL's were a legacy from NW, as UA's were from PA back when the China bilateral was very restrictive). I believe the third set are on SEA-PVG. As for UA, I recall their third set as making up one of the ORD-China routes but n...
Jump to postGeorgia must by law have a balanced budget so no deficit issues (fun fact; if the budget becomes unbalanced during the course of the year, the governor must by law reconvene the legislature in a special session to fix it). GA also has a AAA credit rating, so no real issues with revenues especially c...
Jump to postPure politics based on the results of last week's gubernatorial primary runoff election. thats how the world spins, just like it was pure politics when Cagle put the tax in place. Good for Delta. Youre reaching too hard. Taxes are where we as a society get our revenue to have things like roads and ...
Jump to postSo if HA has 3 weekly frequencies and there's now 5 weekly frequencies in the pool, then who has 6 weekly and on what route?
Jump to postIt's the first four games, so everyone is either going home or to the next site. The winner of LIU-Radford only has to go to Pittsburgh so may be bussing anyways... Edit: that's a rough 350 miles over the Appalachians, if they have to bus that trip the NCAA needs to reevaluate. It's 260 miles from ...
Jump to postIt's the first four games, so everyone is either going home or to the next site. The winner of LIU-Radford only has to go to Pittsburgh so may be bussing anyways...
Edit: that's a rough 350 miles over the Appalachians, if they have to bus that trip the NCAA needs to reevaluate.
DL/VS is at a competitive disadvantage to BA/AA despite offering a much better product. It's an unfortunate situation DL faces, but that's the reality. As for second biggest corporate market, it's certainly debatable. I'm thinking more of where big finance firms have their offices. They typically h...
Jump to postDL has T1-8, all of A and B, C30-C57?, D5-16, D22, D24, and D26-40? something like 69 gates T-A-B, 16 gates on C, and 32 gates on D. WN has C1-22 (18 gates total). AA has T9-12 and D21, D23, and D25 for 7 gates. UA has T13-17 for five interdependent gates (depends on A/C type). B6, F9, AS and everyo...
Jump to postDelta has invested a lot of money in NYC, but unfortunately it doesn't have jvs with ba and jl, which cover the two most important business markets out of New York. No amount of money could change that. I'll grant you LHR, but note that DL has the VS JV there too (focused on O/D obviously, but for ...
Jump to postI am also thinking that GRR-AMS is not out of the question. A lot of expansion has gone on there and it's closer to Northern Michigan a big tourist draw. Michigan broke all records this year as far as tourism so a GRR-AMS link makes sense. GRR isn't that much closer to northern Michigan than DTW is...
Jump to postI would look toward where DL has a huge FF base, and what immediately comes to mind is BNA, MCI, AUS, PVD and JAX I can see the first 3 getting AMS service, with the latter 2 getting seasonal AMS or CDG service. JAX is the shot in the dark though. It likely is a consideration, but this should alrea...
Jump to postWith Porsche and Mercedes having their north american headquarters here and BMW having a major Training facility here, I'm guessin we will see 1 or 2 more frequencies going in and out of Germany. (Maybe Berlin) There's no reason to add any more frequencies on ATL-Germany for those companies, especi...
Jump to postGot bored, so decided to do the others... again, used 20Jul17 Reminder: Delta at 72 flights, 2 weekend flights (31% mainline) United EWR 2x 73G, 1x 738, 5XE70 IAH 4x E70 IAD 4x 319 SFO 1x 738, 1x 320 (monopoly route) DEN 2x 319 LGA 3x E70 Total flights = 23 flights (48% mainline) Also 3xE70 and 1x3...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/mayor" class="quote" target="_blank">mayor</a> (<a href="#88" class="quote">Reply 88</a>):<br/><i/></font></td></tr></table> I have read the DLN...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/Polot" class="quote" target="_blank">Polot</a> (<a href="#10" class="quote">Reply 10</a>):<br/><i/></font></td></tr></table> It's personnel. The...
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