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I've never seen an NWA 757 or Airbus taxi out on a single engine...not once.

Every NWA 757 guy thinks that they are "too heavy." I wonder how quickly they'll learn that single engine breakaway thrust is minutely higher than two engine breakaway...

I presume you used to ride NWA when you were at Pinnacle? Do you ride us now? If not, things have changed as far as SE taxi mentality. I've seen it often. However, we still have those CA who don't care.

BTW, breakaway thrust in the 9 is a lot greater on SE compared to 2.
 
I presume you used to ride NWA when you were at Pinnacle? Do you ride us now? If not, things have changed as far as SE taxi mentality. I've seen it often. However, we still have those CA who don't care.

BTW, breakaway thrust in the 9 is a lot greater on SE compared to 2.

I remember that about the 9... I still ride on you guys with reasonable regularity. My wife's family is from DTW. Unless this has changed within the past month, I still have yet to see either the 320/319 or 757 taxi out single engine. Only taxi in (which is typically quicker).
 
Another quarter, another Delta loss, another hole in sand filled by Genital Lee's niave head. I guess the good news is that the loss is much smaller than the $6.7 billion loss from the first quarter.

Here's the the fouth quarter loss and how the General will tell us how good of a loss it was. I'm sure we'll hear some stuff about how the economic crisis, while spreading worldwide, will not cause any ill effects on Delta's international expansion.
 
Single engine taxi is encouraged in the 9 but most of the time we are too heavy (outbound) to do a SE taxi. However, most Captains taxi in on one engine.

don't know if your -9s are capable of heavier weights, but I flew the -9 in a previous life, and here at Delta on the 88, but very rarely have I been too heavy to SE taxi.
 
Nwa taxi times are typically much shorter than dals thus the lower number of single engine taxi's fwiw
 
don't know if your -9s are capable of heavier weights, but I flew the -9 in a previous life, and here at Delta on the 88, but very rarely have I been too heavy to SE taxi.


Where the ones you flew fully loaded -40's or -50's? They are typically the ones that are to heavy. Those are the majority of the DC9's now.
 
The real headline would be more boring:

Delta Breaks Even
-loses 0.0042 on almost 10% higher revenue.

Still, it would have been nice to see that be a positive number. When you consider the size of oil shocks, crazy economic environment and distractions of a merger, not bad results. Clearly there is room for improvement.

Looking forward the merger will both be expensive and provide some low hanging fruit that Delta should be able to cut costs on. Correct me if I'm mistaken, but single engine taxiing, cross bleed starts, maintaining a clean drag profile on approaches, limiting APU usage, refinedments to aircraft utilization, traffic management and other programs that Delta has been emphasizing I don't think are used over at NWA, yet.

FIRST YOU WRITE THE CRAP ABOVE....

Anyone have the prognosis for NWA? I'm expecting break even, or a little profit.

I heard between 60-100 Million net profit

When the bubble between profit and loss goes to the third decimal point, it should make us all reflect how every little thing we do effects the overall outcome.

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DTW,

Thanks for the correction. One of the FAA folks from your certificate was on our jumpseat yesterday and commented that he had not seen nearly the number of single engine, crossbleed starts and other tasks put on the FO's at NWA that he was observing at Delta. He also commented that Delta typically got tied up with significantly longer taxi times because of ATL (which has not been running nearly as efficiently as it used to for some reason - I'd like to see the numbers) and JFK and LGA.

Looking through the NWA manuals, it appears most of what we do is the same, but Delta's got parts of your FOM spread across five different volumes and is a little harder, at first, to find.

THEN YOU MAKE THE STATEMENT HIGHLIGHTED ABOVE.

Thankfully, both airlines are AQP. Should help us get used to the "new" procedures, etc ...


WHICH ONE IS IT... DOES NWA HAVE FUEL SAVING PROGRAMS OR NOT? IT SEEMS YOU KNOW THE ANSWER TO YOUR STATEMENTS. WHAT IS YOUR INTENTION, TO POKE EYES, MUDDY WATERS, ETC... DON'T BE SUCH A TOOL... IF YOU DO NOT HAVE SOMETHING WORTHWHILE OR GOOD TO SAY, KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT.... SHEESH!!!!
 
Nope, never flew the -40 or -50, that's why I was asking.


Hope that helped. :beer: Most of our taxi times are very short thus making it pointless to do it. However if we could, (weight wise) it was done especially after landing on the taxi in. Also in the summer its tough to keep the planes cool so having both engines on gives you the best chance at keeping the PAX's cool.
 
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