11 more MD90s for Delta from Eva Air

[General Lee]

And yet they've hired a grand total of 300 in the last FIVE YEARS! while the list has shrunk by over 1,500. Lmfao, lance coconut lee.

Wow Jonny, you can count. Now DL is getting 88 717s, all growth. The departing DC9s are being replaced by incoming MD90s (14 this year, now 11 more over the next 3 years from Eva Air). The list shrunk due to a capacity pull down by all Majors over the last 3 years, and lack of substantial hiring from the big 3, but you knew that.... And are you sure 1500 people left DL? Really? Ummmmm, no. Maybe a few hundred have left, with 150 taking the last early out retirement offer. Put your pipe down, Jonny.....


Bye Bye---General Lee

 

[flyboyike]

Wow Jonny, you can count. Now DL is getting 88 717s, all growth. The departing DC9s are being replaced by incoming MD90s (14 this year, now 11 more over the next 3 years from Eva Air). The list shrunk due to a capacity pull down by all Majors over the last 3 years, and lack of substantial hiring from the big 3, but you knew that.... And are you sure 1500 people left DL? Really? Ummmmm, no. Maybe a few hundred have left, with 150 taking the last early out retirement offer. Put your pipe down, Jonny.....


Bye Bye---General Lee

I think, regardless of reason, the fact remains that all that massive hiring by the majors of which you have been speaking now for a while keeps not happening.

 

[jonjuan]

Wow Jonny, you can count. Now DL is getting 88 717s, all growth. The departing DC9s are being replaced by incoming MD90s (14 this year, now 11 more over the next 3 years from Eva Air). The list shrunk due to a capacity pull down by all Majors over the last 3 years, and lack of substantial hiring from the big 3, but you knew that.... And are you sure 1500 people left DL? Really? Ummmmm, no. Maybe a few hundred have left, with 150 taking the last early out retirement offer. Put your pipe down, Jonny.....


Bye Bye---General Lee

Uh huh....all these planes and zero hiring. Puff, puff, give....

 

[BILL LUMBERG]

GL was not lying about the talk of hiring...

What guys like GL on our property are realizing is the turd we agreed to gave up lots of productivity improvements and the company realized now that it is fully implemented how many pilots they actually need....

Less...

I voted no.....don't blame me!!

 

[Flyer1015]

But those Gulf Airlines American pilots would love to get a shot and been hired at Delta

So what? It's their prerogative.

 

[General Lee]

GL was not lying about the talk of hiring...

What guys like GL on our property are realizing is the turd we agreed to gave up lots of productivity improvements and the company realized now that it is fully implemented how many pilots they actually need....

Less...

I voted no.....don't blame me!!

Bill,

Yes there were some productivity enhancements that the company now enjoys. No doubt. There were also more returning military guys, all widebody fleets getting new lie flat seats, and some capacity reductions over the Winter (I once got a 66 hour line). Add the recessions all over Europe and the US etc, and its been a slow couple years. Hopefully things are changing and retirements enmasse will commence.


Bye Bye---General Lee

 

[180ToTheMarker]

Bill,

Yes there were some productivity enhancements that the company now enjoys. No doubt. There were also more returning military guys, all widebody fleets getting new lie flat seats, and some capacity reductions over the Winter (I once got a 66 hour line). Add the recessions all over Europe and the US etc, and its been a slow couple years. Hopefully things are changing and retirements enmasse will commence.


Bye Bye---General Lee

I think the lie flat mod line is like the Bermuda Triangle. Capacity is always "down" for the lie flat mods yet its never "up" when the mods are complete. It just vanishes.

 

[flyboyike]

Hopefully things are changing and retirements en masse will commence.

Or not.