Delta Alternative??

[LandGreen]

If the Pacific Routes are the only thing DAL wants from NWA...why not take over the NWA routes from Seattle? How?

Merge/Buy ALK, deploy 777's out of SEA, LAX, PDX and fly the Pacific routes. No DC9/747/A330/A320 headaches. A common fleet of Boeings!. SLI would be a non event. Nobody would feel it with the small number of pilots on ALK seniority list.

NWA would probably redeploy their SEA based heavies back to MSP or DTW. No feed from ALK anymore. This would be great for the majority of NWA pilots (junior to mid seniority), since only the super senior guys fly out of SEA anyway.

This sure would make most pilots happy. NWA can do their own thing, DAL can get the Pacific routes without giving up massive seniority to NWA pilots. ALK pilots can choose international or domestic flying while still living in SEA.

 

[Fly4hire]

AK does not have the route authority for the Asia routes NWA flies.

 

[LandGreen]

AK does not have the route authority for the Asia routes NWA flies.

DAL used to fly Asia routes out of PDX a few years back. Anybody know what happened to that route authority? Did they sell it to NWA?

Also, without the ALK codeshare feed...NWA would eventually sell the routes out of SEA anyway. I think that is why DAL stopped flying Asia out of PDX...no feed.

They may have to apply and grow slowly...not such a bad thing with oil @ $110

 

[Occam's Razor]

So your pax are gonna rappel out of your B777's to get on the ground in NRT?

 

[Flying the Line]

Seems counter-productive to buy an airline to attempt to push NW off of one of its flights.