7,000 Training Cycles!!!!! Ggeeeezzzz!!!
These sims will be so busy they
won’t come up for air:
Delta’s initial downsize crew bid
is starting to unfold, and the story is quite remarkable.
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Delta Will Add
Flights Through August Before ‘Pause’
Sean
Broderick June 19, 2020
Credit: Rob
Finlayson
Delta Air Lines plans to continue
reshaping its network by adding 1,000 daily departures in August, building on a
similarly sized expansion of July’s timetable, before “taking a pause” and
evaluating fall demand trends, CEO Ed Bastian said.
“That would put our domestic
capacity down somewhere between 55% and 60% of what our normal schedule is,”
Bastian said during a virtual shareholders meeting July 18. “Once we get to
that level, then we’ll take a pause, and we’ll see how demand looks post Labor
Day before we decide to add further domestic flights back.”
Bastian said that the
international schedule is “still very early in the recovery phase” because of
myriad travel restrictions. “I think international travel is probably going to
lag domestic by up to 12 months,” he said.
Before the pandemic, Delta’s
typical daily system operated about 5,500 departures, though it varied by
season.
Load factors for June were
approaching Delta’s self-imposed 60% limit put in place through September to
help create social distancing on flights. Earlier in the month, it was trending
in the mid-40% range, but is now closer to 50%, Bastian said.
“The numbers are a bit lower as
compared if we had an uncapped load factor,” he said. “As the business starts
to return, as demand starts to grow, and if people have more confidence in
their travel experience, we will decide later in this year when we start to
ease up on that cap restriction.”
Broader industry figures reflect
Bastian’s cautious optimism. The U.S. Transportation Security Administration
processed 576,514 people through its checkpoints June 18, the highest one-day
figure since March 20, when the novel coronavirus pandemic’s ramifications were
quickly ramping up. While encouraging, the figure still represents a 79%
year-over-year decline.
One of the demand decline’s most
significant trends is fleet downsizing. Delta brought forward its MD-88 and
MD-90 fleet retirement schedules and is phasing out its Boeing 777-200ER and
-200LR fleets. Bastian suggested that Delta’s major fleet-reduction moves may
not be over.
“We’ll continue to look at other
fleet types as well as planes within sub-fleets within our larger fleet family
for retirement decisions,” he said. “There will probably be a few more made
before the end of this year.”
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From: evan gost
Sent: Sunday, May 17, 2020 12:04 PM
To: mark.pcndir@gmail.com
Subject: Survivor benefit worksheet
Sent: Sunday, May 17, 2020 12:04 PM
To: mark.pcndir@gmail.com
Subject: Survivor benefit worksheet
Hi Mark-
Thank you for
continuing to be a major source of information for our retired pilot group.
I noticed that
the PCN link to the Survivor Benefit
Worksheet connects to a 2008-09 version of that worksheet. I update the
worksheet annually to reflect changes in the variable benefit. The latest
version (for deaths that occur between Apr 2020 and Mar 2021) is available on
the DDPSA website (www.ddpsa.org). You will see that the portion that is viewed by the user is
simplified. I found that the inclusion of the background data was confusing to
many.
The feedback
that I have received indicates that the estimate is very close to the figures
provided by Delta. However, I recommend that pilots request an estimate from
Delta and use my worksheet as a cross check.
Ev
Survivor
Benefit Worksheet -- https://nebula.wsimg.com/6ea6a878a6aaea2436cfa7c15b12e957?AccessKeyId=CF8B3819C35D08FCB764&disposition=0&alloworigin=1
Editor: Ev helped me
update the PCN page that points to this worksheet. Instead of pointing to the particular page
the worksheet is on, I will point instead to the HOME page of the www.ddpsa.org because this Home page has a link to the
often updated worksheet. Thanks to Ev
for helping me find a better way to link to the correct spot.
If any member sees a
broken link or one that is not pointing to where it should on the PCN Home
website, please email me to address it.
Thanks. Mark.pcndir@gmail.com
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Thanks to Capt David
Roberts, who has sent me the latest “Active Pilot Seniority List- May 2020”
14,657 on the current list and it is published on a
semi-private page with only PCN members receiving this newsletter and therefore
receiving this page password: pcnpilot
Check it out here: http://pcn.homestead.com/Seniority.html
Note: Delta has targeted a crew compliment of 10,000 for
2021. So that would indicate likely
both, early out incentives and furloughs at the bottom. I am hoping that they will be able to utilize
a pilot complement at this new
level.
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Re: PCN - HL 317 Published and Now Available 7:53 AM
Hi Mark,
I really hate to see that but the company has to do what's
necessary to stay the course. Six hundred and fifty aircraft! When
I started with Delta in 1965 I don't believe the company had even 300 aircraft,
total. Delta is still the only original, legacy carrier I think.
Cheers, Dick Gardner
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Pete Reed sent me this.
Travis Foster
From: flynsail@comcast.net
To: pilots@reedenterprises.com
Sent: 6/19/2020 11:53:03 AM Eastern Standard Time
Subject: The World's Largest Airline Is Now..... Southwest?!
To: pilots@reedenterprises.com
Sent: 6/19/2020 11:53:03 AM Eastern Standard Time
Subject: The World's Largest Airline Is Now..... Southwest?!
Who would have thought this could happen?
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Aircraft
parking, fleet-by-fleet (Updated May 27)
Published
Date 5/27/2020 11:05 AM
As of May 27, Delta has parked 686 aircraft and
reactivated 23 aircraft. The parking plan has been dynamic during this COVID-19
crisis, making it challenging to report information. Here's a
newly updated fleet-by-fleet breakdown of the aircraft either already
parked or identified for parking. Because the current environment
continues to be unpredictable, it’s important to remember this information is
subject to change and does not include details about how long the aircraft will
be out of service.
555 MAINLINE / 131 CONNECTION
717-44
737-140
757/767ER – 132
767-400 - 12
777 – 8
220 – 0
319/320/321 – 142
330 – 27
350 – 4
MD88/90 – 74
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The next few months are going to get very
interesting - and painful.
Tony P
Life is Good
In God We Trust
Date: 5/25/2020 7:01:39 PM
Subject: Fwd: U.S. Legacy Carriers Jockey For Domestic Rebound
Subject: Fwd: U.S. Legacy Carriers Jockey For Domestic Rebound
More Airline News...
Check out this site:
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From: jjfitz167@gmail.com
To:
Sent: 5/25/2020 4:33:30 PM Central Standard Time
Subject: Naval Air Station Hero
To:
Sent: 5/25/2020 4:33:30 PM Central Standard Time
Subject: Naval Air Station Hero
Love
it when a woman snuffs one of these jerks.
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“Thursday morning a terrorist from Syria armed with an AR15, Shotgun and pistol planned to shoot the gate guard, enter the Navy base in Corpus Christi Texas and kill as many on base as possible. The young female navy sailor on duty checking IDs was shot square in the chest with the pistol by the terrorist. Wearing a ceramic and kevlar vest the bullet did not enter her body however the force knocked her to the ground. She was able to quickly regain footing and hit the emergency button to close the security barricade before the terrorist could pass through. She then with great focus and purpose unloaded her side arm into the vehicle killing the terrorist and saving unknown lives.
The media....crickets. Hell of a sailor!”
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