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New Scope Concerns: 76-Seat Aircraft Fleet Cap
October 22, 2020 20-57 New Scope Concerns: 76-Seat Aircraft Fleet Cap Last week, ALPA received data raising...
One Mile at a Time: Delta Pilots Angry Their Jobs Are Being Outsourced
One Mile At A Time Blog recently covered Delta pilots' scope concerns Delta Air Lines has spent the past many years building up a global network of airline partners, through a combination of joint ventures and equity investments...Delta’s joint venture partners are...
Wandering Aramean asks: “Can Qatar Airways proxy for Delta?”
LATAM’s unlikely recovery funding: Qatar Airways could boost Delta’s position Like so many other airlines around the global today LATAM is in a world of hurt. To help address the financial challenges the South American carrier flied for Chapter 11 bankruptcy...
FORBES covers Delta’s cancellation of 4 A350s as LATAM files for CH11
Forbes's Will Horton outlines how Delta canceled the purchase of four A350from LATAM and pledges to continues Joint-Venture despite LATAM’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing. Click here to read...
Chairman’s Letter
October 26, 2020 “It is true that integrity alone won’t make you a leader,but without integrity, you will never be one.” -Zig Ziglar Dear Fellow Pilot: Delta pilots are foundational to this business's core – and our history and contributions to Delta Air Lines...
Chairman’s Letter: Win Win Solutions
October 20, 2020 Win-Win Solutions “You know. I have heard people say we’re only going to do win-win deals. We keep the Company alive and protect jobs. That’s win-win. Win-win should not be viewed as some pilots are going to leverage the situation to take advantage...
Routesonline covers Alitalia adding US flights from Rome and Milan
Routes Online covers Alitalia expanding their Network with Transatlantic Service to the US/h4> Alitalia is in the process of being nationalized and plans to resume flights from Milan to New York while increasing Rome New York frequencies in August from four times per...
Skift Covers How Latin America’s Airlines Might be Reshaped Forever
Bankrupt LATAM Airlines and Avianca Holdings are dramatically retrenching their once grand ambitions amid the COVID-19 pandemic, reducing competition in Latin America as they mull once-unthinkable cooperation with rivals. Since May, LATAM has exited Argentina,...
OAG Covers How the Ongoing Shake Up in South America is Affecting LATAM
OAG Blog recently covered an increase in scheduled airline capacity as China In recent weeks both LATAM and Avianca have entered bankruptcy protection. While LATAM may emerge with the help of supportive shareholders...This does, however, provide opportunities....
Airline Geeks covers Virgin Atlantic Struggling to Staff
Virgin Atlantic Struggles to Crew July Flights Following Redundancies Virgin Atlantic has written to its pilots asking for volunteers to operate flights in July, admitting it didn’t have enough crew to cover all flights, following the announcement from the...
Executive Traveller Covers Qatar’s Plan To Retire Boeing 777
Qatar to retire all Boeing 777-300ERs “over the next 3-4 years" Qatar Airways will phase out its entire Boeing 777-300ER and 777-200LR fleet by 2024 in favor of new Boeing 777X jets as part of a ‘green modernization’ push which will also see the last Airbus A380...