Delta rumor?

[SpauldingSmails]

Welcome to my world.....airspeed.....airspeed.....glideslope.....glideslope.....altitude.....altitude.... my aircraft......are some of the things I say on most of my trips.....good luck with that staple.

Remind me to avoid flying in your world.

It might be time to improve the screening process at your company if "my aircraft" is something you say as a captain on a regular basis other than taking the tiller on landing roll-out.

 

[Papa Woody]

Furlough is all but guaranteed.

 

[RiddleRat]

It is probably something his copilots say to him on final instead of vice versa.... I'd be scared to be a captain at Delta as well having him as their copilot...

 

[Linedriver]

Furlough is all but guaranteed.

Is that your opinion or do you have reliable info?

 

[PeanuckleCRJ]

Remind me to avoid flying in your world.

It might be time to improve the screening process at your company if "my aircraft" is something you say as a captain on a regular basis other than taking the tiller on landing roll-out.

Despite all the low time and less than stellar guys I flew with at 9E, not once did I have to take the airplane from anyone.

 

[PeanuckleCRJ]

Is that your opinion or do you have reliable info?

He has no reliable info other than doom and gloom speculation.

 

[ACL65PILOT]

The VP of Ops has come out and stated that furloughs are not imminent or planned. If he goes back on words of that strength, he will have a lot of questions to answer.

Now I agree that if the economy gets worse, we will probably see some next fall. The opted not to furlough a few weeks ago. The did this with the knowledge that we have a overstaffed by a large margin.

What a few months and see how fat we are.....

 

[jester757]

Furlough is all but guaranteed.

Retard.

Less than 100 fat next summer even with another 5% draw down. It is not worth furlough for 90 bodies...not when you factor in all of the snap backs. It just costs to much to do so.

 

[xjhawk]

Remind me to avoid flying in your world.

It might be time to improve the screening process at your company if "my aircraft" is something you say as a captain on a regular basis other than taking the tiller on landing roll-out.

Actually, it does not happen much. For the most part we have a great pilot group with a couple bad apples. OUr training program is top notch and even with the amount of pilots we hired in such a short time, those who ran our hiring program did an excellent job. But I would be willing to bet being at a regional as a captain when there is such growth makes one deal with problems no mainline captain has had to deal with since the 60's when they were hiring low time pilots.

 

[ACL65PILOT]

Actually, it does not happen much. For the most part we have a great pilot group with a couple bad apples. OUr training program is top notch and even with the amount of pilots we hired in such a short time, those who ran our hiring program did an excellent job. But I would be willing to bet being at a regional as a captain when there is such growth makes one deal with problems no mainline captain has had to deal with since the 60's when they were hiring low time pilots.

I will agree with that. Being a LCA at a regional during heavy hiring is more trying that being a line CA. Not a lot of fun.

 

[Scope out RJ's]

Is that your opinion or do you have reliable info?

He's talking out his azz, kind of like this stellar comment:

NWA pilot: another overpaid blue-collar sc^mbag.

I'm guessing his old lady was probably done by a DAL-N pilot!:laugh:

 

[patrickdc9]

So is this LGA announcement the much anticipated rumor that we've been waiting for?

And, not to sound like a narcisistic pilot, but what does this LGA announcment mean for me as a Delta pilot? Are we going to get this new flying or will it being going to our Regional friends?

 

[Spinn555]

Going to the regionals. All 'mainline' growth goes to the Regionals. Sad, but true.

 

[michael707767]

So is this LGA announcement the much anticipated rumor that we've been waiting for?

And, not to sound like a narcisistic pilot, but what does this LGA announcment mean for me as a Delta pilot? Are we going to get this new flying or will it being going to our Regional friends?

I would guess the bulk of the routes will be flown by regionals.

 

[General Lee]

I would guess the bulk of the routes will be flown by regionals.

I think a lot of the routes we are getting are currently flown by Piedmont Dash-8s and Colgan Saabs from LGA. Delta will be adding larger planes in the form of CRJs and maybe E175s. The mainline growth could be larger planes flying from LGA to MCO, FLL, PBI, etc---since we would now have more "feed" from those new RJ routes. We may throw a DC9 or something like that at some Midwest cities that we add, but I would think the current MD88s or A319s going to FLA from LGA may get a larger mainline plane replacement. Also, if we take away some 76 seaters or even 50 seaters from ATL to fly these new routes, I think some DC9s may come into ATL and fight Airtran 717s on some routes. I think that was the plan.


Bye Bye--General Lee