Alaska/Delta? Probably not

[Old School 737]

I think KTN would have been an easier choice for Delta this summer but ...

 

[Tarquinn]

This thread is really starting to annoy me. Saying that Delta or Delta pilots somehow can't fly in SE Alaska would be like saying (10 years ago) that Alaska could never possible fly to the busy airports back east or fly ETOPS across the Pacific. This argument is silly.

If Delta really wants to operate to JNU they will in time develop procedures to do so. Personally, I think this is all smoke and mirrors and you won't see it. Nor will we see much of a big AS expansion in SLC. It should be an interesting summer nevertheless.

I agree...

I'm also sick of hearing how Alaska has grown at the expense of the Delta pilots. I'm tired of hearing this foolish, egotistical crap but something tells me it'll never stop.

 

[Mamma]

This thread is really starting to annoy me. Saying that Delta or Delta pilots somehow can't fly in SE Alaska would be like saying (10 years ago) that Alaska could never possible fly to the busy airports back east or fly ETOPS across the Pacific. This argument is silly.

If Delta really wants to operate to JNU they will in time develop procedures to do so. Personally, I think this is all smoke and mirrors and you won't see it. Nor will we see much of a big AS expansion in SLC. It should be an interesting summer nevertheless.

I don't think anyone has implied Delta pilots cannot fly into JNU. Delta pilots could probably do it as well or better than many Alaska pilots. We send our new hires there. The point being made is not directed towards the pilots. Its about the decision to go to an airfield that has very high mins (LDA approach to 08), crappy weather, and will require additional training for all the pilots who fly there. For only 4 months of service. Sounds odd I guess. Anyway, I just go out and do what I have to do to bring home the bacon.

 

[General Lee]

I think KTN would have been an easier choice for Delta this summer but ...

Hopefully next Summer DL will add mainline service to Ketchikan, Sitka, Gustavus, Cordova, Yakutat, Kodiak(oh watch out, special Qual I'm sure...), Prudoe Bay, Barrow, St. Paul, and Dutch Harbor (SWA proved a 737-700 can stop in 3500 ft, thanks Redflyer!) ... Fannnntastic!



Bye Bye---General Lee

 

[Old School 737]

Hopefully next Summer DL will add mainline service to Ketchikan, Sitka, Gustavus, Cordova, Yakutat, Kodiak(oh watch out, special Qual I'm sure...), Prudoe Bay, Barrow, St. Paul, and Dutch Harbor (SWA proved a 737-700 can stop in 3500 ft, thanks Redflyer!) ... Fannnntastic!



Bye Bye---General Lee

Let's not go to far and get carried away now ....

Let's get this summer JNU going first

 

[imacdog]

I guess DL will find out, but I bet it's manageable. Delta also employes 50 meteorologists, and they cover weather around the World. I have a feeling some of them can watch JNU and make sure the pilots are briefed. Thanks for your concern, it'll probably be just fine.


Bye Bye---General Lee

I think they'll find out that what the METAR shows and what pilots find at this missed approach point has very little relation to each other at Juneau. Hence why Alaska went to so much effort to build RNP approaches.

 

[BILL LUMBERG]

I agree...

I'm also sick of hearing how Alaska has grown at the expense of the Delta pilots. I'm tired of hearing this foolish, egotistical crap but something tells me it'll never stop.

Guilty as charged.....Call me egotistical or whatever you want, but having us put people on the very same jet we operate with someone else's name on the side, costs me.....

no hate, no emotion...just business.

 

[moochild11]

How bout all those Alaska people on your wide bodies..what's that cost you?

 

[LandGreen]

Would one of you AK guys just take a screen shot from ur ipad EFB of that silly RNP y'all are talking bout...Ill bring it to kinkos and make 12000 copies...DONE DEAL!!!

There you have it....situation solved!

 

[BILL LUMBERG]

How bout all those Alaska people on your wide bodies..what's that cost you?

We don't need you guys....that's my point. We can feed ourselves.

This is not a slam, but you need that widebody more than we need your 737....not because I have big jet syndrome, it's just because you don't own any large airplanes and we have in our fleet 737s.

Again, I doubt your feed or my feed is going to make or break either one. It's a virtual merger and you keep your chest puffed out like you are the only game in town.

 

[Mookie]

Would one of you AK guys just take a screen shot from ur ipad EFB of that silly RNP y'all are talking bout...Ill bring it to kinkos and make 12000 copies...DONE DEAL!!!

There you have it....situation solved!

If that's what you think, them I would get very well acquainted with SSR vor (sisters island) as you will be spending a tremendous amount of time holding there as Alaska jet after Alaska jet flies the approach into PAJN.

Mookie

 

[moochild11]

We don't need you guys....that's my point. We can feed ourselves.



This is not a slam, but you need that widebody more than we need your 737....not because I have big jet syndrome, it's just because you don't own any large airplanes and we have in our fleet 737s.



Again, I doubt your feed or my feed is going to make or break either one. It's a virtual merger and you keep your chest puffed out like you are the only game in town.

Then why do the actual decision makers have code shares at all? What is the benefit? Haven't you always had airplanes that can do our flying?

 

[msmb]

I'm tired of this thread……….as I said before Delta, good luck. Time will tell. If you compare Alaska's product to Delta's product little old Alaska will do just fine. Our costs are lower and we know the neighborhood. Bring it and let the market decide. Be safe out there, the mountains won't move for anyone.

 

[MesabaDriver]

The word on the second floor in SEA is that Big D's RA wrote a personal letter to lil AS's BT, BA and BM asking why we can't "coexist" in JNU. Why can't we share the RNP in JNU?

 

[General Lee]

The word on the second floor in SEA is that Big D's RA wrote a personal letter to lil AS's BT, BA and BM asking why we can't "coexist" in JNU. Why can't we share the RNP in JNU?

Word is on the fourth floor here in ATL is that what might have been stated on the second floor is SEA was actually said in the 3rd bathroom stall in the SE section of a Friday's restaurant in Olympia, WA......?


Bye Bye---General Lee