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Burkhard From Germany, joined Nov 2006, 911 posts, RR: 0 Reply 4, posted (2 years 2 days 8 hours ago) and read 3347 times:
You guys are so funny! You love to speculate about aircrafts that are ten years away from first service and 20 years away from having a severe impact on revenues.
These guys have problems now. They have A330s,777,767,757, A320s, B737 classic and NG, MD80, MD90, Emb 190 and more smaller stuff around them now, they are an active museum of last 20 years of aircraft history. They have enough to sort out now - so we can speculate without danger anybody will proven false as long as anybody else remembers...
Mariner From New Zealand, joined exactly 7 years ago today! , 10434 posts, RR: 79 Reply 6, posted (2 years 2 days 3 hours ago) and read 3066 times:
Quoting D L X (Reply 3): US isn't committed to the 350. If Parker wants out, it's just a phone call away, iirc.
Correct. In the meantime, he gets the best of both worlds.
Presumably, he gets the A350 somewhere near the price originally negotiated and he gets the launch customer discount.
If he doesn't like the aircraft on launch, if it is too much plane or whatever, he can cancel. If it suits what he wants to do he gets the new aircraft at a darn good price.
If he complains that the plane is too late for him, he'd probably get a good deal on some A330's in the interim.
He's in the catbird seat.
Quoting HPRamper (Reply 1): in part, be US sending a message to Airbus?
In view of the above, what message would he want to send?
Steeler83 From United States, joined Feb 2006, 6244 posts, RR: 11 Reply 8, posted (2 years 1 day 22 hours ago) and read 2830 times:
Quoting USAF336TFS (Reply 2): I do... I wouldn't be surprised if Parker is trying to get out of the A350 commitment.
Quoting D L X (Reply 3): US isn't committed to the 350. If Parker wants out, it's just a phone call away, iirc.
And someone above already said they have long-haul 767s, 777s, and aren't they taking order of the 787? To Parker, an easy way of getting very long-haul aircraft to open Asian routes, and PHX-Europe routes...
EA CO AS From United States, joined Nov 2001, 9362 posts, RR: 69 Reply 9, posted (2 years 1 day 22 hours ago) and read 2807 times:
Quoting FutureFO (Reply 7): The M90's are still flying for DL.
Really? I thought they'd elected to retire that fleet type, since there were so few of them and therefore they were more of a burden to the bottom line.
I could have sworn they were gone. Weird.
Well, I'd guess that would be the first sub-fleet gone if said merger occurs. Thoughts?
"In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem - government IS the problem." - Ronald Reagan
WesternA318 From United States, joined Oct 2004, 4268 posts, RR: 16 Reply 11, posted (2 years 1 day 20 hours ago) and read 2694 times:
Quoting EA CO AS (Reply 5): Not that it helps the fleet picture much, but I thought DL removed their few MD90s from the fleet?
All 15 of them make their way through SLC and to a smaller extent CVG on a daily basis...
Quoting EA CO AS (Reply 9): Well, I'd guess that would be the first sub-fleet gone if said merger occurs. Thoughts?
In my twisted mind, here is what the new airline MIGHT look like
777-200ER/LR, A330-200/-300, 767-200/-300/-400, 757-200 (the DL fleet is larger, so perhaps the US fleet will be reengined?), A319/A320/A321, and the Express....
Get that worldly look, one country at a time. Work Hard, Fly Right.
Steeler83 From United States, joined Feb 2006, 6244 posts, RR: 11 Reply 17, posted (2 years 1 day 19 hours ago) and read 2564 times:
Quoting USPIT10L (Reply 14): SkyWest also flies Embraer-120s from SLC to several cities in UT and ID.
Thanks. I thought that there would be some way of looking up TOTAL fleet information on DL's website. Apparently there is not, unlike on US' website. Then again, airline webpages vary from airline/website to airline/website. I guess it depends on who develops them for the airlines as well...
I was just trying to do my homework if you will and see if I could come up with anything regarding express/regional fleet and think of what a combined service would look like. I know that Comair is nothing more than a financial burden to DL basically, well, according to other a.netters anyway, 50-seat CRJs are not very economical either, I don't know about Beeches, are they too small? But what does that leave really small airports like LNS? I don't think a route like LNS-PIT would be very profitable if operated with a DH8 as opposed to Beech1900s, or would it mean the end to LNS-PIT service (providing that the beeches are cut?)
USPIT10L From United States, joined Mar 2006, 1596 posts, RR: 8 Reply 18, posted (2 years 1 day 18 hours ago) and read 2511 times:
Quoting Steeler83 (Reply 17): But what does that leave really small airports like LNS? I don't think a route like LNS-PIT would be very profitable if operated with a DH8 as opposed to Beech1900s, or would it mean the end to LNS-PIT service (providing that the beeches are cut?)
I think DL with the new management would keep the EAS service. It could just be transferred to Colgan Air. This might take more work than we realize, but there has to be some rationalization of US Airways Express operators. They simply have too many. I think six or seven carriers is enough. No airline needs ten commuter/regional operators to do their local service.
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