Dal Int'l Comes Home To Roost

[BID]

From our CVG memo....No anticipated hiring in 09. Unless you were just being sarcastic.

Nope was not being sarcastic. I was just curious. thanks for the info though.

 

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Delta moves aggressively. This Africa flying is allowing Paris hub bypass.

In this market, I'm impressed that they are always looking for opportunity and making adjustments.

Fortunately fuel prices are helping. If we had experienced this downturn and high fuel prices it would be game over for most airlines.

 

[General Lee]

NEW YORK, Nov 21 (Reuters) - Delta Air Lines Inc (DAL.N: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) said on Friday it plans to cut flights even further next year as it sees more signs of air travel demand slipping.
Delta, which closed its deal to buy rival Northwest Airlines last month, has already cut its capacity sharply this year, primarily to save fuel costs.
The airline, which is now the world's largest by traffic, said it expected overall capacity -- the number of seats it puts up for sale multiplied by miles traveled -- would fall about 4 percent in the fourth quarter.
That reflects a 12 percent decline in domestic capacity and a 9 percent increase in more lucrative international capacity.
However, it said on Friday that international bookings are running lower than last year.
"Demand has slowed over the course of the quarter," said Delta in a regulatory filing. "As a result, we are evaluating our capacity plans for 2009 on both the domestic and international system and expect to reduce future capacity to better align supply with current levels of demand."
The airline said it would provide financial guidance for 2009 at its Dec. 9 investor day.
Delta shares rose 5.4 percent to $7.38 on the New York Stock Exchange. (Reporting by Bill Rigby, editing by Dave Zimmerman



I wonder if Delta will bring those 30 DC9s out of the desert now? How will global demand hurt our cargo ops? Also, anyone see when our investor day is? Could it be after the SLI comes out? The company wanted our SLI done prior to it, and asked the arbitrators to accomplish that.


Bye Bye---General Lee

 

[ACL65PILOT]

There is a multi-tiered strategy going on general. We are not just looking at the near term economy, but five plus years down the road.

The rumor of those DC-9's returning is there for a few reasons. It exerts pressure on Boeing for some of those 100 seat jets we are looking for as well as DCI contract changes. If they come out of the desert something will give. Either a order with Boeing, and or some of the DCI lift. It is putting pressure where it needs to be put.

We were probably never going to see them anyway.

 

[General Lee]

There is a multi-tiered strategy going on general. We are not just looking at the near term economy, but five plus years down the road.

The rumor of those DC-9's returning is there for a few reasons. It exerts pressure on Boeing for some of those 100 seat jets we are looking for as well as DCI contract changes. If they come out of the desert something will give. Either a order with Boeing, and or some of the DCI lift. It is putting pressure where it needs to be put.

We were probably never going to see them anyway.

Gotcha.

Bye Bye--General Lee

 

[DTW320]

Also, anyone see when our investor day is?

Sorry, I'm not following you there. What is that?

 

[General Lee]

Sorry, I'm not following you there. What is that?

The day after the SLI announcement. Supposedly a lot of company news too.


Bye Bye--General Lee

 

[ACL65PILOT]

That is what I hear, both good and bad.

 

[lowecur]

I would think some cuts are inevitable. At CX, we are seeing significant drops in load factor, especially in the front-end. We have a pretty diversified route network, and have a high-end product, and are still seeing a big drop all over the system. Maybe you guys are able to get better yields elsewhere, but I would say that counting on international growth to make up for domestic weakness isn't going to be the cure-all anymore. But what do I know, I'm only a pilot....

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Bloomberg had a piece on ANA last night, and they said traffic is way down. It's not just the European market that's hurting, it's global.

imp:​

 

[DTW320]

The day after the SLI announcement. Supposedly a lot of company news too.


Bye Bye--General Lee

Oh, you mean like a press conference or conference call for investors? Got it.

 

[ACL65PILOT]

The day after the SLI announcement. Supposedly a lot of company news too.


Bye Bye--General Lee

If I am not mistaken it is the same day that in 2004 they announced. the "De-hubbing" of DFW" (To use Jerry's words)

 

[Yuppyguppy]

Can they furlough you guys?

 

[ACL65PILOT]

Yes they can, it is the economy and not the merger. I do not think we could argue that.

 

[michael707767]

The airline said it would provide financial guidance for 2009 at its Dec. 9 investor day.

Dec 9 investor day.......Dec 8 SLI day.

hmmmm...

 

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