Re: Are Delta's 777LRs going to FedEx?

Almost certainly parts planes. I don't see FX paying for an STC that would cover so few airplanes. FWIW FX did the same with some of the 757s they bought. Surely a conversation program for 77Es would be more viable thanks to more feedstock to amortize it over and lower values? You would think that B...

Re: UA Maintenance Bases

Pretty sure United closed the HOU hangar when they opened up the new hangar at IAH but I could be wrong.

also, I'm about 99% sure United is doing its V2500 overhauls in-house, even though their web site doesn't say so.

Re: Different manufacturers for jet engines #1 vs. #2

I think I recall from past discussions that engines from different vintages (e.g. line numbers 500 and 900) of the same make/model are allowed on a given airplane. Are airlines allowed to mix/match engines even further and do unusual combinations? Examples: [list] [*] PW4090 for engine #1; PW4098 f...

Re: Delta Network Thread - 2021

Do you think DL would add more routes to South America since that region seems to be more open than other areas? Maybe things like ATL-GYE, LAX-GRU? Haven't they tried LAX-GRU at least 5-6 times? Fails every time. or once. granted without the axe to grind, LAX-GRU has basically been a huge failure....

Re: Delta vs. AA's Strategy at LAX during/post COVID

DL's focus coming out of COVID looks to be becoming the dominant carrier at LAX. They have the resources to try a route map that AA/UA probably can't sustain. Or don't want. UA doesn't really need LAX to be big. It just needs it to be profitable enough to serve the markets it needs to in order to b...

Re: AA large AUS expansion

jfklganyc wrote:

I don’t know about LAX but LaGuardia was past the point of no return. It had to keep going.

Re: Delta MEC Letter

IMO, DL has way too many chiefs and not enough Indians. It's so lopsided it's not even funny. DL had no choice but to pay out the retention bonus. If you look at their careers website, the amount of managerial positions available is just astonishing. From friends that work in DL corporate, the numb...

Re: Delta Fleet Thread - 2021

Would you mind providing evidence of DL A330's being at STR/DUS? Or being on CVG/RDU-CDG, or MCO-AMS? I can't recall ever seeing them scheduled. I didn't say they had been on RDU-CDG or MCO-AMS operated by Delta. I said other carriers have operated larger aircraft in one or both of those marketplac...

Re: Delta Fleet Thread - 2021

No. Airlines aren't going to swap HUNDREDS of aircraft they invested tens of millions in their own product...all for the sake of some "fleet simplification." Did you even look at engine types on the aircraft? Because if so, you would see the simplification you propose isn't all there as D...

Re: Delta Fleet Thread - 2021

Is a big swap possible? UA is not flying their 764s, DL is. DL is not flying their 737-700s, UA is. DL and UA are both flying their A320s and 763s. DL takes all of the UA 764s and UA takes whatever can be agreed on from the DL 737-700s, 763s and/or A320s. No cash. No. Airlines aren't going to swap ...

Re: Eurowings Discover the new LH Group airline

Simplifying the Eurowings structure. The current Eurowings is, or rather was, flying a weird mix of SunExpress Germany and Brussels Airlines aircraft and crews on long haul. And of course it is impossible to make any money with this constellation. This new airline, it really is an entirely new airl...

Re: Amazon Fleet Discussion - 2021

Because ATSG is involved in the Precision 321 conversion, it stands to reason that they are planning to have one of their carriers able to fly the thing, so I think the concern that no current US cargo carriers fly the A320 series is probably off the table. I also think that if you offered 50 to fl...

Re: Delta Fleet Thread - 2021

How come DL got rid of all their younger 767-300ERs that were mostly 20-22 years old? I think even they sold their youngest one (19.6 years) to Amazon Prime... Did they have more hours on them? Well, the ones that were sold to Prime were a subfleet with a different configuration than the rest of th...

Re: American A330s Storage?

With DL's love of the A330 series I wonder if DL is interested in buying the A330's? an airline losing 15 million dollars a day is going to buy airplanes it doesn't need. Hell the company has plenty of its own A330s still sitting. Delta acquired some Gulf Air 763s in the late 90s And going further ...

Re: Why no second commercial airport for Atlanta?

That's true and also I forgot how traffic in Atlanta Metro absolutely sucks during AM and PM rush hour. Especially when I was taking an Uber from Downtown to Alpharetta and back on a 4 day Business Process Onsite. It was on par with Los Angeles (where I live.) That said, I really do like Atlanta as...

Re: 30 Years Ago Today: Eastern Air Lines Ceases Operations

The end of Eastern came because two giant played chicken and their egos made tens of thousands loose their jobs. Frank Lorenzo and the late Charles Bryan. Bryan quickly left Miami and moved a few hundred miles north to the Villages near Orlando, The Villages is a well known retirement community. Ea...

Re: Question About DL's MEM Hub Closure

Yes, DL connected AMA and LBB to MEM... Did it, at the time of the merger announcement? The day the merger was announced I looked at NW's MEM schedules. IIRC, of the 102 n/s destinations only two were unserved by DL from ATL. MEM was destined to be toast. The absence of O&D just fortified the a...

Re: Why no second commercial airport for Atlanta?

Why would there be a second airport for Atlanta? Having the MARTA metro rail station inside Hartsfield which connects directly from the underground monorail to most parts of the city from ATL is severely underrated if you ask me. I've used it twice while on Business Trips to get around and never ha...

Re: American Airlines Network Thread - 2021

If cute how you list all those problems for Delta but act like American doesn't have the same issue. AA/BA aren't tossing a ton of money losing capacity on SEA-LHR, just like DL/VS AA is going to have the same exact limits to China that Delta/United will. Its highly unlikely anyone is flying going ...

Re: Why no second commercial airport for Atlanta?

It's no secret United lacks a southeast hub. Fragmenting the market between two airports can give United the opportunity to push for a 15-gate complex at a new airport. Maybe that's being overzealous on my part, but where else could United land a hub in the southeast? Maybe Orlando? I mean, it's bi...

Re: NW/PA and DL/PA London interchange routes.

The answer is very simple: in pre-deregulation times, PA did not have domestic traffic rights, as it was an international-only airline. I think the question may have been why Pan Am didn't fly MSP-LHR and ATL-LHR (non-stop), which would be a different answer. My guess is not enough demand to make n...

Re: American Airlines Network Thread - 2021

We've already seen DL respond to AA with their own plans for (re)launching SEA-LHR (which sadly, seems to have permanently replaced their PDX-LHR flight. What are the odds that that SEA-LHR even launches? Even VS doesn’t fly on the route now. There is no way DL/VS are flying 2x daily anytime soon. ...

Re: Man lived on the secure side of ORD for three months undetected

jetmatt777 wrote:

I thought Victor Navorski was at JFK? Maybe the SmartCarte returns pay more quarters in ORD.

Re: Updated: AA planning eventual successor, Parker successor planning in work.

https://twitter.com/crankyflier/status/1351299629518786562?s=21 This is far more detail than I'm sure @AmericanAir would like out there, but, uh, congrats Robert? I can't imagine who else but Isom would fit the profile as the new CEO... whenever that may happen. Top A.net fantasy comes true? Not re...

Re: Delta to end Ready Reserve in July 2021

as a retiree i have considered RR preferably at TVC. I have worked ground and CSA before, but this was back in the 80's and 90's. COVID and cancel culture with videos has cured me ,now, of the excitement of the travel industry once and for all, LOL! But it seemed to be a good program for me when I ...

Re: American Airlines Network Thread - 2021

TPAC is not easy for AA. But if they are still keen on it, I see the following in decreasing order of likelihood:- 1. SEA-HKG: AA just dropped LAX-HKG and CX is a close partner (they just pulled down SEA recently). 2x daily to HKG will offer good aircraft utilization. 2. SEA-PKX: CZ is growing quit...

Re: QR finds composite cracks in early build A350

Cracks are certainly not normal It's always so interesting to me when perusing threads on a.net how the non-engineering people say things like "It's just cracks in the fuselage after 4 years. Perfectly normal. Perfectly safe." And then the one guy in the thread who actually has decades of...

Re: DL 767-400 Into RSW

Not sure the reason they are flying them is to “up their wide body hours”. You need to keep the pilots on the widebody aircraft current. This is one of the few times where the domestic traffic is there to support widebody ops, and the widebodies are not being used to euro services. Easy solution to...

Re: AMFA looks to oust AA mechanics union

I don't know anything about any of this, but looking at that list of stuff, it looks like it ensures that hangars and other facilities will have to be cleaned by Members, but not so much that Members will perform actual maintenance work there. JT8D-200: My impression is that those were on the 727s ...

Re: Emergency Slide Deployment at LGA

When people do stuff like this, they should be put on a no-fly list for 25+ years. On every airline. To every destination. That will end it. PTSD???? Whatever. The ones now suffering PTSD are the other passengers and crew from that flight. nah just let them (and by let them I mean make them) pay fo...

Re: Delta Narrow Body Thread - 2020

Interesting to see all the churn in the 717 fleet. You've got: - Reactivations of stored aircraft - Ferry of stored aircraft to more longer-term storage and/or disposal facilities - Storage and/or retirement of aircraft that have been in-service that are either a) out of green time or b) lease term...

Re: Updated: DL retired MD-80/90s quickly

That's exactly what I was suggesting all along. Makes perfect sense that someone would pick up one or two of these well maintained, but oh so retired before their time aircraft. I'm sure they got them for cheap. With hopefully lots of green time on the available engines hopefully they'll keep on fl...

Re: AMFA looks oust AA mechanics union

Yes, AA mechanics would be well served to look at two examples where AMFA took over: NW and UA. Final result at NW was elimination of all union mechanic jobs, and quickly. UA mechanics quickly kicked AMFA right back out. Many unions have large organizational structures that connect with all members...

Re: Delta Narrow Body Thread - 2020

Interesting to see all the churn in the 717 fleet. You've got: - Reactivations of stored aircraft - Ferry of stored aircraft to more longer-term storage and/or disposal facilities - Storage and/or retirement of aircraft that have been in-service that are either a) out of green time or b) lease term...

Re: Delta Narrow Body Thread - 2020

I believe its Aeroman and DL uses them for heavy maintenance checks on A319/A320/A321 & A330s. To be fair, almost all of the storage exits now are for aircraft coming due for maintenance visits. There is a delicate balance going on it seems of aircraft and tending to avoid putting aircraft in l...

Re: Rumor: DL to acquire 7 A350’s from QR

An airline that is burning 22 million dollars a day with more capacity than they know what to do with is certainly going to go out and buy even more airplanes. A350s. 737Maxs. Hell, I'm betting Delta picks up some of the world's parked A380s too.

Re: AMFA looks oust AA mechanics union

The mechanics are trying to distance themselves from the fleet service side, which is also represented by the TWU. Exactly what happened at NW. I hope it works out better for AA though :( Yes, AA mechanics would be well served to look at two examples where AMFA took over: NW and UA. Final result at...

Re: Updated: Asiana Airlines Discussion Thread; KAL makes bid

I don't know what they would do with their doubled-in-size A380 fleet after the merger. Seems like we would see some more dozens of whales being retired. I would say its a good bet that either the KE birds (GE/PW engines) or OZ birds (RR engines) will be parked at the very least. If KE doesn't just...

Re: Delta Widebody Thread - 2020

Source: Scramble.nl I doubt this is the case. You'll see this airplane ferry to NRT once N514DN is finished with PTS (about one more week to go) If that 6 month clause were true, N389DN wouldn't still be flying only international trips to this day after being in the fleet over a year. TechOps is al...

Re: Delta Narrow Body Thread - 2020

If furloughs were to happen with the numbers previously indicated, DL would end up furloughing something like 75% of the A220 FOs (essentially all of the A220 NYC FOs since its the most junior category in the system. In addition there is displacement on the A220 CA as well. There is not enough trai...

Re: Delta Narrow Body Thread - 2020

I wonder how Delta and Airbus will work out the deliveries of 6x A221's and 6x A223's? https://www.planespotters.net/airline/Delta-Air-Lines At YMX, all 6 A221's are finished and have flown. Considering the "fire sale" prices Delta are paying for A221's, you'd think Delta would try to fin...

Re: Delta Widebody Thread - 2020

I'm guessing they are power by the hour am curious...why hasn't A339/N401DZ been reactivated? Savings on engine time. no. Just saving time of the engines. They are in-house motors. I'm not sure Delta has any power by the hour (at least in the true sense of power by the hour) engines. Maybe the CF6s...

Re: DL/NW Merger....12 Years Later

12 years later, the DL/NW merger, which was widely panned by the business press when it was first announced, remains a text book case in how to merge two airlines. Sure, they had a lot of advantages going into it. They both filed Chapter 11 at roughly the same time. Their CEO's had enough knowledge...

Re: In post Covid, do you think Delta's Atlanta-Chennai will work again?

Did I miss something? When did Delta ever fly between Atlanta to Chennai? Apparently 2005 for USA-MAA. Did some googling and they flew JFK-CDG-MAA (https://www.domain-b.com/companies/companies_d/delta_air_lines/20050511_route_map.html) I do not recall them ever flying ATL-MAA, directly or indirectl...

Re: Will Boeing use the "Max" name again?

Whatever your opinion is on the 737 Max crashes, there is one thing that you can't deny is that the the Max name has certainly been tarnished as a result. For this reason do you think Boeing will not use the Max name on other aircraft? no it hasn't. Outside of the FlyerTalk(and now here) wanna be a...

Re: AS claps back at B6, announces LAX and FLL expansion

phatfarmlines wrote:

More like AS clapping back at DL......

Open season on DL especially with the AA/B6 news.

Re: Rumor: Republic Airways furlough 40% of workforce

A lot of companies right now are going on the very, very high end of what they actually expect to let go as far as WARN notices go, so hopefully the job loses wont be as bad as they sound right now. I suspect at least some of this is being done to get more money out of Congress as well as concession...

Re: Delta plans to emerge a "smaller" carrier

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-delta-air-latam-bankruptcy-analysis/deltas-global-growth-drive-stalled-by-latin-american-bankruptcies-idUSKBN2431HV Reuters on Delta's international equity buys: Delta Air Lines had a strategy for years: expand worldwide by buying stakes in airlines and partner wit...

Re: Delta plans to emerge a "smaller" carrier

-CVG and HNL will transition from bases to AFP’s with approximately 80 flight attendants each. -ORM, SAS and TPM AFPs closing. -SFO will transition from base to AFP; will retain current staffing but no backfill for attrition. -EWR will no longer be a coterminal for NY-based crews. EWR flights will ...

Re: Delta plans to emerge a "smaller" carrier

To clarify you mean FA crew bases.....the pilot base realignment was announced several weeks ago. CVG lost the last pilot crew base (73N) so its natural to assume the FA base will go and they won't start/end trips from there any longer. not necessarily Delta has quite a few FA bases (Miami for exam...