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Let's hope the MEC holds the line.
I'm not all that knowledgeable about legacy pilot contracts.
Would this trigger some sort of language about ownership of other airlines? Couldn't a legacy just keep spending profits on buying up other companies otherwise?
Don't some pilot contracts prohibit the purchase of other airlines without requiring some sort of staple or merger?
Since Virgin is not a US airline, does this change the pilot group's say on the matter?
Gen! You now have a subsidiary that can do all your international Flying/Expansion! LMAO! You guys just got whipsawed!
Is Cabotage hiding in there somewhere?
Contractually, is there much difference between a major buying a regional and buying a stake in any other airline?
Theoretically, if DAL had purchased 100% of Virgin, would the DAL pilot group handle that differently?
I read somewhere the DL/VA plan is to have at least 9 daily shuttle flights between JFK-LHR, this would be in direct competition to the planned BA/AA schedules. Should get interesting...
Virgin flies from LHR to BOS, Chicago, LAS, LAX, Miami, JFK, MCO, SFO, IAD and Vancouver.
We're sharing seats on a metal neutral basis, but the seats are not going to be on the same kind of airplanes. We'll trade a seat on their wide body for a seat on our Narrow. If you look at their route structure, it just makes sense we'll give them more 10 seats LAX to LHR, while we take ten seats LAX to SAC.
Delta has no wide body order, and the reason is because we are shifting our focus to be domestic feed for a massive international code sharing operation.
If this trend continues, we will see less variety in our international destinations as we focus on feeding JV codeshare hubs. (CDG, AMS, and now LHR), AND SIMULTANEOUSLY feeding Air France, KLM, and Virgin Atlantic WIDE BODIES parked at US airports.
And this talk of our contractual protections against this I hear???
The contract language basically states that in the event the company enters into a JV/Codeshare agreement, the flying that we already have to the host country can be no less than it already was. Yes, that means the way to GROWTH is to codeshare it away because it's cheaper.
This is good for DAL pilots, but it depends on how you look at it.
We have a new management team running the airline now. Leo Mullin was sacked long time ago.How much did Delta buy Comair/ASA for? That's right, billions. I know it's for the international market and that's where the money is. I swear DL mng't is a bunch of monkeys with airlines on a dart board and they're gonna see where it lands.