GRAAB HIRBOUBI
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Yesterday while waiting in line for TO at MSP, I found myself watching a Frontier A319 and a bunch of NWA DC-9's and it got me wondering.
Back in XJ history (before me), XJ used profits from the NWA service agreement to buy a small charter company in Orlando, which operated 737's. Within a few days NWA came to XJ and threatened to pull all the flying because they were not going to subsidize the competition. The people who owned XJ basically sold XJ (to people who were huge stock holders in NWA) and went to Orlando where they were eventually bought by Value Jet and turned into the Air Tran we all know today.
My question is, now that we are all in the one big happy Delta Family, can we look forward to more and bigger jets at XJ? I mean if Republic can do flying for Delta, use that money to prop up US Air, buy Midwest and Frontier which are all cheaper and directly compete with Delta... I mean why not keep they money in the family at least.
Are the wholly owns that much of an enemy that the Delta Main line company and DALPA MEC are all right with 90 to 100+ seat aircraft being subsidized with our paycuts (I took mine too) and used to compete with us?
Just to be clear...
I don't care that we are wholly owned, we are subcontractor and subject to the whims of the mainline.
I did not support the RJDC and do not think we are entitled to anything. But I do think that only the mainline DALPA can protected/stop the bloodletting by the constant whipsawing between the different regional partners. If safety and on time performance were real measures I'd feel pretty content.
I need someone to explain this to me. I know the NWA MEC would have chased after Republic with torches and pitchforks, and then taken a swipe at us just to keep us from getting any idea's. The Compass issue just voted on CAN'T be as overwelmingly important as the THREAT Republic is to all of us.
I need someone to explain this to me.
Back in XJ history (before me), XJ used profits from the NWA service agreement to buy a small charter company in Orlando, which operated 737's. Within a few days NWA came to XJ and threatened to pull all the flying because they were not going to subsidize the competition. The people who owned XJ basically sold XJ (to people who were huge stock holders in NWA) and went to Orlando where they were eventually bought by Value Jet and turned into the Air Tran we all know today.
My question is, now that we are all in the one big happy Delta Family, can we look forward to more and bigger jets at XJ? I mean if Republic can do flying for Delta, use that money to prop up US Air, buy Midwest and Frontier which are all cheaper and directly compete with Delta... I mean why not keep they money in the family at least.
Are the wholly owns that much of an enemy that the Delta Main line company and DALPA MEC are all right with 90 to 100+ seat aircraft being subsidized with our paycuts (I took mine too) and used to compete with us?
Just to be clear...
I don't care that we are wholly owned, we are subcontractor and subject to the whims of the mainline.
I did not support the RJDC and do not think we are entitled to anything. But I do think that only the mainline DALPA can protected/stop the bloodletting by the constant whipsawing between the different regional partners. If safety and on time performance were real measures I'd feel pretty content.
I need someone to explain this to me. I know the NWA MEC would have chased after Republic with torches and pitchforks, and then taken a swipe at us just to keep us from getting any idea's. The Compass issue just voted on CAN'T be as overwelmingly important as the THREAT Republic is to all of us.
I need someone to explain this to me.