Delta

[pave driver]

The majority of the capacity cut they are talking about is DCI.

OK. So the "15% fewer aircraft" are all RJs.

 

[General Lee]

I think it's going to be a while.

http://atwonline.com/airline-finance-data/news/delta-maintain-capacity-while-cutting-fleet-size-0917

Did you read that article? Here it is:



Delta to maintain capacity while cutting fleet size

By Karen Walker


Delta Air Lines’ (DL) fleet restructuring plan will leave it with 15% fewer aircraft but capacity will be maintained at current levels, a company executive said Monday.

Speaking at the Boyd Group International Aviation Forecast Summit in Dallas, DL senior VP financial planning, analysis and investor relations Gary Chase said the carrier’s regional jet fleet will be reduced by 200 aircraft or more by 2015.

“A portion of our fleet that sticks out like a sore thumb is the 50-seat aircraft,” Chase said.

By phasing out smaller aircraft and replacing them with larger, more efficient aircraft, Chase said DL will increase revenues, lower costs, maintain capacity discipline and improve the customer experience.
DL will close down its Comair regional subsidiary from the end of September.


In May, Southwest Airlines and DL announced an agreement in which DL will sublease the 88 Boeing 717s that SWA inherited in its acquisition of AirTran Airways. The 717s will replace DC-9s and 50-seat Bombardier CRJs.






DL will also be aquiring more MD90s (25 or so), and get 100 739ERs, although the 739s will be replacing one for one older 767-300Dom, older 757s, and some A320s close to the cycle limit. The 17 DC9s remaining will be replaced by the 25 MD90s, and the 88 717s will replace 76 and 70 seaters on their current routes, as they replace outgoing 50 seaters.



Bye Bye---General Lee

 

[pave driver]

Thank you.

Did you read that article? Here it is:



Delta to maintain capacity while cutting fleet size

By Karen Walker


Delta Air Lines’ (DL) fleet restructuring plan will leave it with 15% fewer aircraft but capacity will be maintained at current levels, a company executive said Monday.

Speaking at the Boyd Group International Aviation Forecast Summit in Dallas, DL senior VP financial planning, analysis and investor relations Gary Chase said the carrier’s regional jet fleet will be reduced by 200 aircraft or more by 2015.

“A portion of our fleet that sticks out like a sore thumb is the 50-seat aircraft,” Chase said.

By phasing out smaller aircraft and replacing them with larger, more efficient aircraft, Chase said DL will increase revenues, lower costs, maintain capacity discipline and improve the customer experience.
DL will close down its Comair regional subsidiary from the end of September.


In May, Southwest Airlines and DL announced an agreement in which DL will sublease the 88 Boeing 717s that SWA inherited in its acquisition of AirTran Airways. The 717s will replace DC-9s and 50-seat Bombardier CRJs.






DL will also be aquiring more MD90s (25 or so), and get 100 739ERs, although the 739s will be replacing one for one older 767-300Dom, older 757s, and some A320s close to the cycle limit. The 17 DC9s remaining will be replaced by the 25 MD90s, and the 88 717s will replace 76 and 70 seaters on their current routes, as they replace outgoing 50 seaters.



Bye Bye---General Lee

Thank you.

 

[PeanuckleCRJ]

The memo that just came out confirmed the Oct bid to now be small with a bigger bid in jan. Hiring unlikely this year... carry on.

 

[SLUF4]

The memo that just came out confirmed the Oct bid to now be small with a bigger bid in jan. Hiring unlikely this year... carry on.

Have you ever noticed how the next one is always "the big one?"

 

[xjhawk]

so hiring not this year but what in the memo does it say about next year? I had a Delta pilot say that there will be no hiring next year too? I do not see how that could be possible.

 

[labatt]

I do not see how that could be possible.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2012/president/2012_elections_electoral_college_map.html

 

[retired guy]

so hiring not this year but what in the memo does it say about next year? I had a Delta pilot say that there will be no hiring next year too? I do not see how that could be possible.

The guy that empties the trash can knows as much about pilot hiring as the pilots. The chief pilots don`t know, the check airmen don`t know and the simulator instructors don`t know either.

 

[i fly boxes]

They won't have to hire anyone when they absorb pinnacle hahaha!

 

[ACL65PILOT]

Any hiring in the near term will be off of an event that has yet to be done. The current block plan will not require bodies until mid next year at the earliest.

 

[hockeypilot44]

so hiring not this year but what in the memo does it say about next year? I had a Delta pilot say that there will be no hiring next year too? I do not see how that could be possible.

I do. Anyone that looks at a seniority crystal ball can see there is no real movement until about 2017. 81 mandatory retirments in 2013 and 132 in 2014. There's about 200 in 2015. This mass retirement wave really doesn't start until 2017. That's still five years from now. Anyone that actually looks at the numbers will realize that very few pilots are leaving before age 65. We just had an early out program that had about 170 guys leave. Most of them were younger, but the positions were never replaced so it doesn't help us. FWIW, we are still overstaffed. When we do start hiring, factor in about 200 furloughees that will come back plus the flow-ups. There might not be off the street hiring for 4 more years.

 

[EMBpilot]

I had a southwest jumpseater who has decided to jump to Delta when they start hiring. He also said he is not alone in thinking that way.

Wait a minute! If SWA is such a great place to work why is this going on?
Is Delta so much better? He doesn't live in a DAL base..

 

[Smarta$$]

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2012/president/2012_elections_electoral_college_map.html

Totally ignorant post.

 

[redflyer65]

Three years is a long time to wait to jump. All depends on his age. I'm surprised to hear that Delta won't be hiring off the street for possibly three years...but it makes sense when you hear about being overstaffed, combined with furlough recalls and additional flowups.

But in this industry, things can change tommorrow.

 

[Quimby]

I had a southwest jumpseater who has decided to jump to Delta when they start hiring. He also said he is not alone in thinking that way.

Wait a minute! If SWA is such a great place to work why is this going on?
Is Delta so much better? He doesn't live in a DAL base..

He's "decided" to go to Delta? Interesting. So, that whole interview thing & even getting called for an interview is all sown up for him? I wonder if he's told Big D that he's on his way over?

Plenty of ex-Delta at SWA. SWA guys have left for FedEx, UAL, etc.

Bottom line. Who cares?