More money for USAir

[AA717driver]

Man, this is starting to make the TWA/Icahn Karabu agreement look like a sweet deal... TC

 

[lowecur]

Really? I am 1/2 Irish and the other half Peruvian Indian. I am 5 feet tall(on a good day) but can drink 12 shots of whiskey and still win a bar fight.(always hit LOW---in the gut--I can't reach any higher) I need a booster seat sitting in the 757, though.(the stews call me Tattoo) Bye Bye--General Lee

Yeah, I hear you play a mean game of curb racketball.

 

[P38JLightning]

core business

P38,

How can you say selling ASA and Comair wasn't part of the plan all along? We heard a brief outline of what may happen in that crew lounge meeting, and I believe that was one of the things that was on the table. The VP said it was a better idea to make it more competitive and to get back to the core business which was Delta Airlines. He said it was going to be a tough year, but in the end was going to be fine. I am going to believe him......



Bye Bye---General Lee

Ah yes, the core business of outsourcing.

If you were to tell a Delta pilot 10 years ago that Delta would buy/lease/subcontract 500-600 swept wing all glass turbojets, many owned by Delta, all painted Delta, flying Delta code exclusively, coast to coast out of every hub, with millions in profits going to support your competitors, you would never have been believed.

Delta cancels/defers 777 orders, a few weeks later Korean Air picks up almost the same number of 777 options to be used in trans pacific Skyteam codeshare.

But in your crew room briefings managers say it will all be okay and Delta is focusing on its core. Hmmmm. Hey I hope you're right, I really do. Its a great 75 year old airline with good front line people who still act kinda like they work for one big family. I just hate to see these no talent hack Harvard scum run it into the ground by turning it into a virtual airline more and more each day.

 

[General Lee]

Ah yes, the core business of outsourcing.

If you were to tell a Delta pilot 10 years ago that Delta would buy/lease/subcontract 500-600 swept wing all glass turbojets, many owned by Delta, all painted Delta, flying Delta code exclusively, coast to coast out of every hub, with millions in profits going to support your competitors, you would never have been believed.

Delta cancels/defers 777 orders, a few weeks later Korean Air picks up almost the same number of 777 options to be used in trans pacific Skyteam codeshare.

But in your crew room briefings managers say it will all be okay and Delta is focusing on its core. Hmmmm. Hey I hope you're right, I really do. Its a great 75 year old airline with good front line people who still act kinda like they work for one big family. I just hate to see these no talent hack Harvard scum run it into the ground by turning it into a virtual airline more and more each day.

The guy who was saying it is also incharge of your airline (and others). Hmmmm. Sounds like he really knows what will be happening with regard to YOU. This aint no "Chief Pilot or lead LCA."

And about those 777s, I don't really know if Korean got any of our options or not, but we probably weren't ready for them, and they were defered. We are still getting them eventually, and maybe then we can chow on some interesting food in Seoul. We get 2 more 777s in 2006. How many are you getting? I may be able to hold 777 FO by then too. The crew rest facility on our 777s (2 now I think) are really neat. Maybe sometime you will get a tour.


Bye Bye--General Lee

 

[N2264J]

I wonder how much of the $125 Republic financing came from the Delta connection profits. In other words, do you think Deltas "portfolio concept" is actually now helping USAirways, its competitor?

Yes.

Delta, albeit indirectly, is ceding money to prop up it's bankrupt competition at the expense of it's own shareholders while at the same time tettering on the brink of Chapter 11 itself. Remind me again of the virtues of the portfollio concept. Is it worth this terrible price in a service based industry to keep labor down? Southwest management thinks that having the employees on your side is an advantage.

Could it get any wackier? You would hope the corporate memory would be a little bit longer. When Delta parked all their DC-9s that were replaced by the MD-80, they were bought by Value Jet, now Air Tran, who proceeded to beat Delta about the head and shoulders with those same airplanes out of Atlanta, their own home terf.

Fool me once, shame on you - fool me twice, I'm a moron. Good goes around!