Previous slides [Edited for emphasis] Slide 7 - 120 daily departures increase over the next 3 years - B6 - 150 to 200 (50), DL 100 to 150 (50), WN (surprising) - 41 to 56 - meaning 11 turns a day on their 5 gates.. that's some going... and another surprise UA 44 to 51 (7) July board meeting highlig...
Jump to postWe have no evidence that the A330neo is "tens of millions" cheaper than the 787. It could even be that the 787 is less expensive. And the 787 is also highly efficient at short to moderate stage lengths. Is DL buying the right tool? Maybe. They think so, but is it? And is it the best tool ...
Jump to postWhen you run a business you do not buy "the best," you buy the right tools for each job. Buying the 787 to fly it DTW-AMS is like buying a Bugatti to go 75 MPH. Not necessary. The A330neo is perfect for that job, and tens of millions of dollars cheaper than 787. Again... because the 787 b...
Jump to postBobloblaw wrote:Are there other industries that receive anti trust immunity?
*IF* DL has plans for AUS then this won't deter them. NK & DL chase totally different demographics and I don't think they view each other as true competitors. yes and no. NK's m.o. of 1x daily or less than daily flights and few connecting opportunities makes them less than ideal for business tr...
Jump to postHow often does the central garage get filled? I was there today and I had to park in the terminal E lot I took the last available spot. When walking from A to E I noticed cars double parked that happen often? A lot, hence why Massport is trying to build more, even though they really don’t want to (...
Jump to posthinckley wrote:N717TW wrote:Only BA, IB and LH have all continuously operated from Terminal E since it opened in '74 . . . IB was missing for most of the 80s and 90s.
So did you mean BA and LH only?
Aside from BA, who are the longest serving tenants of terminal E? Logan Terminal Map from June 1974 ... when Terminal E opened as the John A Volpe International Terminal https://scontent.fbed1-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/46055165_10213602474600801_3604604938719592448_n.jpg?_nc_cat=106&_nc_ht=scont...
Jump to postThe "eagles nest " is a nickname used for the old American eagle area. Calling it a terminal is really an exaggeration. No jetbridges or any real amenities. It's located right next to the massport fire station, at the entrance to the J pad Was it originally built as a terminal for America...
Jump to postSome of the answer will depend on how BofA does it corporate travel. I've sat next to a number of Merrill Lynch folks out of NYC and BofA international banking folks from their BOS (former BankBoston/Fleet) office over the last year...a lot more than I used to or remember. It could just be people wh...
Jump to postuh, yeah they can. Example, The Delta/United "swap" of JFK/EWR slots was actually United selling Delta JFK slots and Delta selling United EWR slots. Except it wasn't a sale. It is a lease and the DOT rejected the EWR lease...then did away with slot restrictions at EWR making it all moot a...
Jump to postThe underlying premise of the thread is off: Slots at JFK can't be sold. The airline doesn't "own" the slot, they are simply assigned to the airline for its use with the presumption that they stay with the airline until it doesn't need it anymore. That said, the slots can be swapped and tr...
Jump to postBOS ramp/bag room in the late '80s and '90s was a notoriously rough place to work.
(Edited b/c I thought, about 1/2 hour after writing, that my line could easily be read out of context and therefore be insensitive to those directly or indirectly affected by the murder of Sue Taraskiewicz. Sorry!).
Call me a doubting Thomas I’m just highly skeptical that DL would do this add and fling RJs from DTW to ORH unless it’s to get something in return from MassPort at BOS. I mean they’ve been cutting DCI routes like LIT TUL and CAK from DTW and stuff like FNT and BMI from MSP and we think they may sta...
Jump to postSo when will this route be reallocated to DL? What's the indication that DL really wants the additional China, let alone PEK, authority? I'm not really sure they wanted LAX-PEK beyond blocking AA from adding the route. Now that AA has started LAX-PEK, does DL really want to start that route? At bes...
Jump to postSo when will this route be reallocated to DL? What's the indication that DL really wants the additional China, let alone PEK, authority? I'm not really sure they wanted LAX-PEK beyond blocking AA from adding the route. Now that AA has started LAX-PEK, does DL really want to start that route? At bes...
Jump to postI heard that AF (which has powerful unions as everyone knows) has more relief pilots per long haul flight than required. Can anyone confirm? There are lots of situations that on paper don't require a relief pilot. That doesn't mean it's smart. Honestly is it really a good idea to depart at 10pm for...
Jump to postThe return flight is most certainly longer than the eastbound flight. Plus, depending on how early the return flight departs using the crews "body clock" which would still be on Eastern Time in the US, FAR 117 could required 3 pilots. Interesting. The return clocks in around 7hr on averag...
Jump to postI was just on DL409 flying JFK-EDI and found it really odd that we had three pilots given that its only a 6 hr flight. Not only did I see all three in uniform but the Captain announced herself and the two other pilots just before we pushed off from gate at JFK. I thought that the standard for DL/AA/...
Jump to postI agree on PHL/CLT-Asia flight(s), particularly TYO with the JL JV. It wouldn't shock me to see an ORD-Asia 788 flip to PHL/CLT-TYO. With them talking more about Europe, I'd expect 788s to start appearing in PHL/CLT next year for some of the 763 flying that will need to be covered as those birds ar...
Jump to postI agree on PHL/CLT-Asia flight(s), particularly TYO with the JL JV. It wouldn't shock me to see an ORD-Asia 788 flip to PHL/CLT-TYO. With them talking more about Europe, I'd expect 788s to start appearing in PHL/CLT next year for some of the 763 flying that will need to be covered as those birds ar...
Jump to postWhen UA acquired PA's LHR (and IAD-CDG route) assets (for a bargain $400m) they got 16/17* slots at LHR. For a time, UA was operating 727s into Germany, AMS and OSL. It even ran DEL onto HKG for a while in the mid 90s. Eventually the slots all moved to being used for US nonstops. PA generally ran 9 ...
Jump to postThe didn't sell their remaining slots. AA inherited them through the merger/acquisition post Chapter 11 in 2001. The only slots TWA officially sold off were the LHR routes, and the slots were at LHR, not JFK. The airport wasn't slot controlled except for certain times of the day back when TWA was f...
Jump to postThe didn't sell their remaining slots. AA inherited them through the merger/acquisition post Chapter 11 in 2001. The only slots TWA officially sold off were the LHR routes, and the slots were at LHR, not JFK. The airport wasn't slot controlled except for certain times of the day back when TWA was f...
Jump to postWonder how much does having Procter & Gamble headquarters in Cincinnati weights on CVG traffic. One of Procter major Latin American regional HQ is in Panama City. Perhaps if Procter ask for it, CVG might get CM PTY-CVG at least 3-4 times per day? How is CVG Latin American traffic these days? It...
Jump to postIND has connecting traffic via DL and WN. What connecting traffic is DL flowing through Indianapolis? To be clear, I'm not saying that passengers have not made a connection in IND, but I doubt that connecting passengers are anything but incidental. Indy's DL destinations are almost all hubs / focus...
Jump to postI'm sure DL will find out fairly soon whether or not their JV with KE will be effective or not. That'll probably determine any future plans for reinstating HKG from anywhere. Absolutely. Delta's Asia strategy is a work in progress. While the ICN hub will do a great job of providing 1-stop service t...
Jump to postpray tell, which routes will this happen on? They are already adding two international destinations on their own metal so if anything, they are doing the opposite and growing. What are the two new int'l destinations? MSP-ICN and SEA-KIX Oh. Well, that's two new routes to existing destinations (gran...
Jump to postNot anytime soon. Delta will likely shrink their own metal further in Asia as the JV with KE ramps up. It is a new day for Delta in Asia. pray tell, which routes will this happen on? They are already adding two international destinations on their own metal so if anything, they are doing the opposit...
Jump to postAUS doesn't currently have the infrastructure for a hub operation, but they have plenty of space to develop it. The airport is well laid out for a future hub operation, they could add a third runway next to the current 12,000 ft one with little to no property acquisition and build several new 30+ g...
Jump to postWhile at first glance this appears to be passenger comfort related, I am sure at the heart of it there is a business case to be made for leaving Y in 3 x 3 x 3 and total capacity under 300. Perhaps it’s the fact they don’t need the extra seats and it enables better yield management. Perhaps there a...
Jump to postKLM's role in the company is on transfer traffic KLM was one of the first European carriers to really exploit international connections and similarly it pioneered the JV (with Delta forerunner Northwest) for the sole purpose of flowing as much US-Europe traffic as possible through AMS. That is stil...
Jump to postThere are a lot of generalities on this thread that cause the unless conversations. A few things to ponder The French Labor Paradox Yes the French have among the most days of strikes (https://ind.pn/2lFa3vv) but also the least unionized in Western Europe with only 8% of the workforce unionized. http...
Jump to postI love the optimism of folks on this tread. The Reuters article, which means the press release its essentially cribbed directly from, states this is for the domestic market. Yet, we're talking about connecting secondary markets around India with AMS and CDG. The Max-8 barely has the legs to connect ...
Jump to postUA857 wrote:If DL/NW didn't merge would NW have a hub at SEA?
Overall capacity may not be overwhelming, but it’s a very important business market. Anyone in finance can tell you that. That is 100% true (as is NYC-HKG and NYC-SIN) but its also true that the Asian carriers have a far better service reputation. So when you combine the Asian point-of-sale bias pl...
Jump to postAs a few have pointed out, BOS is in the mix as well here. Logan is roughy a 90 minute drive from downtown Hartford, making that airport appealing for anyone flying Int'l. Conn. is a the land of small cities and most of them (from New Haven to Bridgeport and Stamford) are close enough to NYC that yo...
Jump to postwhat? The Gov't is putting kids on a plane and is lying about why there are on the plane? If that's true, then this whole thing has gone bonkers.
Jump to postmore often that not they are doing good on BOS-SFO in terms of load factor. Just curious, what do you consider good load factor? BTS would show they have quite a bit lower LF than other carriers Here is Q4. BOSSFO VX,58357,72281,80.74% DL,30058,40760,73.74% UA,169360,191562,88.41% B6,88590,110028,8...
Jump to postI think DL competes not on price but on routes underserved on other airlines. Notice how small of an operation they have at ORD. Probably because they don't want to get in price wars with AA and UA. It seems like they go after cities dominated by local airlines. Like they have much more muscle than...
Jump to postOh, AS will pick up the route!! :) Would an LAX-based flight make more sense for DL perhaps? SEA, though, is a strong business market and one of the most rapidly growing large cities in North America. Air Canada seems to do well from Vancouver, which is a smaller city (of course there are very stro...
Jump to postDelta dropping major global market like HKG is indeed certainly a shock. I agree. It strikes me as a City you sorta "have" to serve (along with LON, CDG, FRA, TYO, SYD, GRU etc) if you want to be able to sell yourself to clients as an intentional carrier. Based on the decision I am guessi...
Jump to postI climbed stairs to an AF 747 in NCE in 1990.
There was a lot of stair climbing in CDG in mid-aughts after the roof collapsed in the new 2E (or 2F, can't remember). and people were being bused all over the airport.
Adding ICN with lots of beyond connectivity on KE can only further weaken MSP-HND. While they likely indeed would face uphill battle at DOT, not sure the benefit of keeping poor performing route around year after year. In comparison DL out of LAX, even with AA and NH also offering nonstops to HND p...
Jump to postIs there a plan to extend the north end of TBIT? No. It will stay as is. MSC North and South will add plenty of gates to TBIT. Are they keeping the current gates 135/137/139/141 which is a nub of the old 1981 TBIT? I understand why it was left there originally--as part of the plan to move the runwa...
Jump to postIt was really common, especially overseas for airlines to own hotels in their far flung outposts for guests to stay: Pan Am owned InterContinental; TWA brought Hilton International from Hilton (and created TWCorp), BA/Lufthansa/Swissair owned Penta Hotels even while Swissair also owned Swissôtel; KL...
Jump to postThe non-OneWorld, non-SkyTeam flights will likely move to the mid-field concourse, freeing up gate space for DL and AA plus their partners (AF/KL/MU/KE etc and QF/BA/IB/JL respectively). Do we have a sense for how that will be handled from a check in perspective? TBIT check-in is fully tapped out a...
Jump to postLots of exterior renderings too. So happy they are making the outside look more modern too. https://www.bizjournals.com/losangeles/news/2018/06/01/delta-invests-1-86-billion-into-lax.html Midfield is coming along nice also and that will help AA and DL. Not sure I follow. How will it help AA and DL?...
Jump to postIsn't VS becoming part of the larger JV with AF/KL/AZ, not just with DL? With the AF/KL equity investment they, along with DL, have control of VS. Its definitely a DL/AF-KL/VS thing going forward. https://news.delta.com/delta-air-france-klm-and-virgin-atlantic-sign-agreements-strengthening-trans-at...
Jump to postDL's JFK-PHL started as RJ's and eventually one flight upgraded to a 752, which I thought was likely for rotation purposes for PHL-CDG/LHR. DL has flown PHL-JFK ever since they purchased PA's TATL routes which was before RJs had entered service with any airline and several years before Delta flew t...
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