DELTA fact or fiction.

[obadie]

Delta to furlough 400 pilots?
Sent a new hire class home?
Parking MD 90s? How many?
Getting rid of 25 RJ's (Comair's)?

Anyone know the answers.

 

[contrail67]

Are you going to tell us where YOU heard this or are you just starting a negative thread?

 

[obadie]

One of my buddies, just trying to find out if there was any truth to his story.

 

[Heavy Set]

My neighbor here in Boca (a 7ER FO) just said that was not true. No mention of that on his company website, and the only news was that Delta was going to name one of their new 777LRs "the Spirit of Delta" like the 767-200 they retired. The Comair parking part may be correct, and I think I read a post from the General that said they were adding MD90s next year?

 

[iaflyer]

Delta to furlough 400 pilots?
Sent a new hire class home?
Parking MD 90s? How many?
Getting rid of 25 RJ's (Comair's)?

Anyone know the answers.

I might be able to answer three of those:

No, they haven't sent a new hire class home. A friend is in the Dec 3rd class and I'm in the Jan 7th class - he would of told me if there was people being sent home, and two, I just got an email last night from the new hire coordinator welcoming my class.

Parking 25 RJs - yes, that is one of their plans for the coming year. RJs are the most expensive airplanes to operate per seat mile in their system I believe. They've said this for several weeks.

MD-90s - what they are trying to do is get MORE MD-88/90s on top of all the other airplanes they have on order.

 

[ACL65PILOT]

No going to layoff any time soon. Hiring 625-1000 in 08.
That is until the mergers are announced.

 

[ATR-DRIVR]

That is until the mergers are announced.

DOH!!!

 

[PeanuckleCRJ]

Delta to furlough 400 pilots?
Sent a new hire class home?
Parking MD 90s? How many?
Getting rid of 25 RJ's (Comair's)?

Anyone know the answers.

1. absolutely not.... hiring (as right now) 630-650 next year.

2. no. no no no.

3. Actually looking at getting 15-20 more.... although that is on and off the bubble.

4. yes. good riddance. (there's wayyy too many RJ's in the delta system)

 

[~~~^~~~]

Not true - but heard ASA's new base is going to be in Kotoka, Ghana. Delta's Africa operations are doing so well that they think a feed arrangement would allow the use of 777's on those routes instead of the 767.

The customers who have not flown before are excited at the prospects of jet service and the lack of US FAA supervision allows the carriage of livestock in the overhead bins.

Leonard is approved to administer Yellow Fever shots.

 

[tbkane]

Yeah but the only problem is you can't get anything in the overhead bins on ASA....