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Delta adds back 1,000 attendants

Delta Air Lines said Friday that it is adding back 1,000 flight attendants, including recalling 425 who were on a voluntary furlough.
The focus of the hiring is on foreign-language speakers who can work on international flights and speak languages including Japanese, Mandarin, Dutch and Spanish, airline spokeswoman Betsy Talton said.
The new flight attendants will begin training in January and should be flying by the middle of next year, she said.
Delta, the largest airline at Detroit Metro, has received more than 85,000 applications for the flight attendant jobs. The last time Delta hired new flight attendants was in 2008. The 425 who are returning to work came from a pool of about 730 who volunteered for furloughs. All those who wanted to come back to work, did, Talton said.
Delta flight attendants are voting on whether they want to be represented by the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, or go without a union. The airline said the recalled flight attendants would have been able to vote in the election whether or not they had come back to work.

Delta posts $363 million third-quarter net profit

Delta Air Lines kicked off US majors' third-quarter earnings reporting period Wednesday by announcing a $363 million net profit, reversed from a $161 million net loss in the year-ago quarter, and predicted it will achieve its first profitable fourth quarter since 2000.
Speaking to analysts and reporters, CEO Richard Anderson said the positive three-month period was driven by "revenue performance, cost discipline and harvesting the synergies from the [Northwest Airlines] merger." DL said it would have earned third-quarter net income of $929 million excluding special charges that included $256 million in interest expenses and a $360 million loss on the extinguishment of debt. Anderson emphasized that lowering debt is "one of our highest financial priorities" and highlighted $750 million in debt reduction during the September quarter ([Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien]).
DL's adjusted net debt stood at $15.2 billion on Sept. 30, down 10.6% from $17 billion at the start of the year. Its goal is to have adjusted net debt of "$10 billion by the end of 2012 and we'd really like to be even lower," Anderson said. He commented that a great deal of the company's focus going forward will be on "debt reduction, shrewd deployment of capital and cost discipline." That discipline will extend to capacity growth, which will stay "in check," President Ed Bastian noted. Added Anderson, "Whatever growth you have in the business has to be below GDP and not at the expense of RASM and yield improvement."
Fourth-quarter system capacity will be up 5%-7% year-over-year but is "still down 5% from 2007 levels," Bastian said. Most of the growth will be on the international side, where fourth-quarter capacity will lift 10%-12% compared to 2009. Domestic capacity during the quarter will be down 10% from combined DL/NWA 2007 fourth-quarter domestic ASMs, he pointed out.
Third-quarter revenue surged 18% year-over-year to $8.95 billion, outpacing an 8% rise in expenses to $7.95 billion. Operating income of $1 billion was nearly five times better than a $204 million operating profit in the 2009 third quarter. Consolidated traffic increased 2% to 54.68 billion RPKs on a 2% rise in capacity to 63.66 billion ASMs, producing a load factor of 85.9%, up 0.1 point. Yield jumped 16% to 14.22 cents as PRASM heightened 16% to 12.21 cents and CASM rose 6% to 12.22 cents. CASM ex-fuel was flat at 7.84 cents.
Bastian said DL's prospects are bright in the months ahead. "We're continuing to see demand stay strong as we move towards the end of the year," he stated. "We expect that momentum will continue."

Delta Air Lines To Receive First Of 18 Boeing 787s In 2020

Delta Air Lines Inc. (DAL) said Monday that it will take delivery of the first of 18 Boeing 787s in 2020, ending long-running uncertainty over the fate of the order.
The second-largest U.S. carrier by traffic inherited the order when it acquired Northwest Airlines, and has been in talks with Boeing Co. (BA) about the planes' fate following protracted delays in the aircraft's entry into service.
Delta said in a regulatory filing that it had reached a deal to reaffirm the order for the 787-8 variant for delivery from 2020 to 2022. They were originally slated to arrive between 2008 and 2010.
All Nippon Airways Co. (ALNPY, 9202.TO) is due to receive the first 787 in February 2011, almost three years late.
Continental Airlines, a unit of United Continental Holdings Inc. (UAL), is the U.S. launch customer for the plane, with the first of its 25 due to arrive in the second half of next year.

Priscott a écrit:2020 !! C'est sérieux ? Il semble que oui....

Jamais vu un truc pareil. :o

Et le remplaçant du 737, on peut réserver quand ? ?

Jeannot a écrit:Pour finir Delta garde les 787 de Northwest mais... pas pour tout de suite....

Delta Air Lines To Receive First Of 18 Boeing 787s In 2020

Delta Air Lines Inc. (DAL) said Monday that it will take delivery of the first of 18 Boeing 787s in 2020, ending long-running uncertainty over the fate of the order.
The second-largest U.S. carrier by traffic inherited the order when it acquired Northwest Airlines, and has been in talks with Boeing Co. (BA) about the planes' fate following protracted delays in the aircraft's entry into service.
Delta said in a regulatory filing that it had reached a deal to reaffirm the order for the 787-8 variant for delivery from 2020 to 2022. They were originally slated to arrive between 2008 and 2010.
All Nippon Airways Co. (ALNPY, 9202.TO) is due to receive the first 787 in February 2011, almost three years late.
Continental Airlines, a unit of United Continental Holdings Inc. (UAL), is the U.S. launch customer for the plane, with the first of its 25 due to arrive in the second half of next year.

J'ai lu par ailleurs 6 par an à partir de 2020... Cela laisse du temps pour renégotier vers d'autres modèles ou d'autres variantes.

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Delta Air Lines has reconfirmed its order for 18 Boeing 787-8s but has deferred deliveries to between 2020 and 2022.

Ending extended uncertainty around the state of its 787 order, Delta disclosed today in a filing with the US Security and Exchange Commission that it has entered into an agreement with Boeing to reaffirm the order. As part of the agreement Delta discloses it has deferred delivery of the 18 aircraft, which originally were slated to arrive between 2008 and 2010, to between 2020 and 2022.

Delta inherited the $2.2 billion order from Northwest Airlines. The two carriers completed their merger last year.
Northwest was initially allocated two of the original six flight test aircraft, Airplanes Three and Four. But this changed when the first three aircraft were determined to have no value. The remaining three that are being used in
the flight test programme are now set aside for potential VIP usage.

Delays to the 787 programme earlier prompted Delta to extend the life of its Boeing 747-400s. Delta earlier this year unveiled plans to refurbish its 14 747-400s, which will continue operating routes to Asia that were originally slated to receive 787s.
The 18 aircraft order also includes options for an additional 50 aircraft, although the regulatory filing appears to reflect only the firm orders.

Delta Air Line's maintenance division is evaluating expansion of its engine overhaul offerings to include services on the International Aero Engines IAE V2500s powering Airbus A320 narrowbodies and McDonnell Douglas MD-90s.


During the International Aviation Forecast Summit hosted by the Boyd Group International in late October, TechOps president Tony Charaf said that Delta - which operates a fleet of V2500-powered MD-90-30 twinjets - was in the process of determining if maintenance of the powerplant type was "something we want to get into".

As part of the evaluation, it is considering whether it would acquire tooling or purchase a company already offering V2500 overhauls. "There are many opportunities," says Charaf, "but we're not sure."
Charaf believes the global maintenance, repair and overhaul market is not likely to pick up until mid- to late 2011 as demand for overhaul and repair started slowing after passenger and cargo levels began to fall.
Delta TechOps recorded about $560 million in revenue for 2009. Charaf says revenue should be close to $500 million for 2010.

Forsythe a écrit:Problème moteur sur un B-767 de DL

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A Delta Airlines Boeing 767-300, registration N1200K performing flight DL-30 from New York,JFK (USA) to Moscow Sheremetyevo (Russia) with 193 passengers, was in the initial climb out of JFK's runway 04L when the crew declared emergency about 80 seconds after receiving take off clearance.

Tower asked the next departure waiting for takeoff clearance whether they had seen any fire or smoke from the #1 engine of the departing aircraft with a negative reply, another crew and tower reported seeing a flash from the departing aircraft during takeoff.

A third crew reported seeing a flame out and smoke from the departing aircraft.

The Boeing 767 crew reported they had lost the left hand engine (PW4060), climbed to 5000 feet, dumped fuel and returned for a safe landing on runway 04L about 50 minutes after departure. Emergency services found no traces of an engine fire.

The FAA said, the crew reported engine problems, turned back to New York, landed safely and taxied to the apron. Initial reports of an engine fire were incorrect.

Jetblue flight B6-74, next in line to depart after the Delta Boeing, declined takeoff clearance from runway 04L twice requesting a runway inspection before departure. The airplane departed 10 minutes after the first takeoff clearance following ground vehicles reporting the runway was clear.

Local news helicopters started swarming the airport about 10 minutes after the departure of DL-30.

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A suivre (ou va-t-on taire la suite ?) !

• 40 DC9s,
  
• 117 MD88s,
  
• 179 757s
  
• 126 Airbus A32xs.
  

Delta prepares for full narrowbody analysis in early 2011

Delta Air Lines is preparing to start discussions early next year with manufacturers about replacing its aging narrowbodies.
Speaking during the carrier's annual investor day Delta president Ed Bastian said: "We clearly need to get the DC9s retired. We clearly need to start to build a replenishment strategy for our older MD88s and some of our Airbus narrowbodies as well as the [Boeing] 757s."
Flightglobal's ACAS database shows that Delta currently operates 40 DC9s, 117 MD88s, 179 757s and 126 Airbus A320 family aircraft.
"We'll have more data as we talk to the manufacturers," says Bastian. "We've not been in a position the last couple of years because when you put two airlines together you really pop out so much capacity that you want to make sure it is fully allocated and fully productive." Delta and Northwest merged in 2008, and attained a single operating certificate from the FAA in December 2009.
Bastain explains now Delta is "at the point of the cycle where we think we should have those conversations", with airframers.
Delta's president also states the carrier is "open to different economic financial models" in acquiring new aircraft, and would consider both direct ownership and leasing.

Jeannot a écrit:Delta prépare pour début 2011 une étude sur le renouvellement de sa flotte de moyens porteurs :

• 40 DC9s,
  
• 117 MD88s,
  
• 179 757s
  
• 126 Airbus A32xs.
  

Delta prepares for full narrowbody analysis in early 2011

Delta Air Lines is preparing to start discussions early next year with manufacturers about replacing its aging narrowbodies.
Speaking during the carrier's annual investor day Delta president Ed Bastian said: "We clearly need to get the DC9s retired. We clearly need to start to build a replenishment strategy for our older MD88s and some of our Airbus narrowbodies as well as the [Boeing] 757s."
Flightglobal's ACAS database shows that Delta currently operates 40 DC9s, 117 MD88s, 179 757s and 126 Airbus A320 family aircraft.
"We'll have more data as we talk to the manufacturers," says Bastian. "We've not been in a position the last couple of years because when you put two airlines together you really pop out so much capacity that you want to make sure it is fully allocated and fully productive." Delta and Northwest merged in 2008, and attained a single operating certificate from the FAA in December 2009.
Bastain explains now Delta is "at the point of the cycle where we think we should have those conversations", with airframers.
Delta's president also states the carrier is "open to different economic financial models" in acquiring new aircraft, and would consider both direct ownership and leasing.

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Ramjet2 a écrit:L'équipage d'un B-757-300 de Delta coupe un moteur ( P&W 2040 ) en vol

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A Delta Airlines Boeing 757-300, registration N584NW performing flight DL-1921 from Detroit,MI to Phoenix,AZ (USA) with 224 passengers, was enroute at FL360 about 200nm eastsoutheast of Colorado Springs,CO (USA) when the crew reported problems with the right hand engine (PW2040).

The crew shut the engine down, drifted down to FL230 and diverted to Coloroda Springs for a safe landing on Colorado
Spring's runway 35L about 45 minutes later.

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Delta May Buy 200 Single-Aisle Jets in Record Order


Jan. 13 (Bloomberg) -- Delta Air Lines Inc. plans to order 100 to 200 narrow-body jets and seek options for 200 more, a deal that may become the biggest in commercial aviation history, as it replaces some of its oldest planes.

A request for proposals went to “several” planemakers last month, and deliveries may begin as soon as 2013, Atlanta- based Delta told employees today on an internal website without identifying the companies. Airbus SAS and Boeing Co. are the biggest commercial-jet makers.

Ordering the full 200 planes would be a record, topping the plan unveiled this week by Indian discounter IndiGo Airlines to buy 180 Airbus A320s, with a value of $15 billion at list prices. Delta traditionally bought jets from Boeing until adding Airbus jets in its 2008 acquisition of Northwest Airlines.

“There’s a better chance for Airbus now that Delta no longer exclusively flies Boeing aircraft,” said Jeff Straebler, a debt strategist at RBS Securities Inc. in Stamford, Connecticut. “Delta’s big enough that they could continue with both Airbus and Boeing families, and maybe even the CSeries if they wanted to.”

Bombardier Inc.’s CSeries, which seats 100 to 145 people, seeks to compete with the smallest single-aisle jets from Airbus and Boeing and replace older models such as the DC-9 built by a Boeing predecessor. The Montreal-based company is targeting the end of 2013 for the first deliveries.

List Prices

Boeing’s 737 and the A320 are twin-engine models seating about 125 to 185 people. Their list prices, on which airlines typically get a discount, range from about $63 million to $95 million, depending on the version. Buying 200 737-800s, the top- selling U.S. jet, would cost $16.2 billion at list prices.

Delta will consider “large, medium and small” narrow-body jets, Chief Executive Officer Richard Anderson said today in a separate weekly recorded message to employees.

“It’s important we take a very long-term view of our fleet,” Anderson said.

A new jet order will replace planes including Boeing DC-9s that average 34 years old, Boeing 757-200s that are 18 years old and A320s that are 16 years old, Nat Pieper, vice president of fleet strategy and transactions, said on Delta’s website posting. The new planes would be used on domestic routes.

Trebor Banstetter, a Delta spokesman, confirmed the posting’s authenticity and said the company declined to comment further on its fleet plans.

Confidential Conversations

“Airbus talks to customers and potential customers worldwide on an ongoing basis,” said Mary Anne Greczyn, a spokeswoman in Washington for the Toulouse, France-based company. “When it comes down to specific conversations about fleet needs and how Airbus can meet those needs, the content of those conversations, and even the existence of those conversations, are confidential.”

A spokesman for Chicago-based Boeing wasn’t immediately available to comment.

Delta also has been acquiring used jets, including five Boeing 757-200s and 33 MD-90s, and will continue to look for additional used planes, Pieper said.

“We’ll evaluate all our options,” he wrote.

Single-aisle jets made up more than 80 percent of Delta’s fleet, which totaled 821 planes as of September. Delta said in October it was keeping its order for 18 of Boeing’s wide-body 787 Dreamliners, a new plane now running three years behind schedule, while deferring deliveries into the next decade.

Engine Boost

A Delta order of narrow-body jets also would boost engine makers that are readying a new generation of engines that are about 15 percent more fuel efficient and quieter than the models they would supplant.

The geared turbofan engine from United Technologies Corp.’s Pratt & Whitney and the Leap-X from CFM International, the venture of General Electric Co. and Safran SA of France, are the choices on the announced A320 unveiled by Airbus last month. The CSeries will run on Pratt & Whitney’s geared turbofan.

Current 737s use engines from CFM, while existing A320 models use engines from International Aero Engines, a venture led by Pratt & Whitney and London-based Rolls-Royce Group Plc.

Jeannot a écrit:Delta pourrait bien passer une commande de 200 mono-couloirs

Delta May Buy 200 Single-Aisle Jets in Record Order


Jan. 13 (Bloomberg) -- Delta Air Lines Inc. plans to order 100 to 200 narrow-body jets and seek options for 200 more, a deal that may become the biggest in commercial aviation history, as it replaces some of its oldest planes.

A request for proposals went to “several” planemakers last month, and deliveries may begin as soon as 2013, Atlanta- based Delta told employees today on an internal website without identifying the companies. Airbus SAS and Boeing Co. are the biggest commercial-jet makers.

Ordering the full 200 planes would be a record, topping the plan unveiled this week by Indian discounter IndiGo Airlines to buy 180 Airbus A320s, with a value of $15 billion at list prices. Delta traditionally bought jets from Boeing until adding Airbus jets in its 2008 acquisition of Northwest Airlines.

“There’s a better chance for Airbus now that Delta no longer exclusively flies Boeing aircraft,” said Jeff Straebler, a debt strategist at RBS Securities Inc. in Stamford, Connecticut. “Delta’s big enough that they could continue with both Airbus and Boeing families, and maybe even the CSeries if they wanted to.”

Bombardier Inc.’s CSeries, which seats 100 to 145 people, seeks to compete with the smallest single-aisle jets from Airbus and Boeing and replace older models such as the DC-9 built by a Boeing predecessor. The Montreal-based company is targeting the end of 2013 for the first deliveries.

List Prices

Boeing’s 737 and the A320 are twin-engine models seating about 125 to 185 people. Their list prices, on which airlines typically get a discount, range from about $63 million to $95 million, depending on the version. Buying 200 737-800s, the top- selling U.S. jet, would cost $16.2 billion at list prices.

Delta will consider “large, medium and small” narrow-body jets, Chief Executive Officer Richard Anderson said today in a separate weekly recorded message to employees.

“It’s important we take a very long-term view of our fleet,” Anderson said.

A new jet order will replace planes including Boeing DC-9s that average 34 years old, Boeing 757-200s that are 18 years old and A320s that are 16 years old, Nat Pieper, vice president of fleet strategy and transactions, said on Delta’s website posting. The new planes would be used on domestic routes.

Trebor Banstetter, a Delta spokesman, confirmed the posting’s authenticity and said the company declined to comment further on its fleet plans.

Confidential Conversations

“Airbus talks to customers and potential customers worldwide on an ongoing basis,” said Mary Anne Greczyn, a spokeswoman in Washington for the Toulouse, France-based company. “When it comes down to specific conversations about fleet needs and how Airbus can meet those needs, the content of those conversations, and even the existence of those conversations, are confidential.”

A spokesman for Chicago-based Boeing wasn’t immediately available to comment.

Delta also has been acquiring used jets, including five Boeing 757-200s and 33 MD-90s, and will continue to look for additional used planes, Pieper said.

“We’ll evaluate all our options,” he wrote.

Single-aisle jets made up more than 80 percent of Delta’s fleet, which totaled 821 planes as of September. Delta said in October it was keeping its order for 18 of Boeing’s wide-body 787 Dreamliners, a new plane now running three years behind schedule, while deferring deliveries into the next decade.

Engine Boost

A Delta order of narrow-body jets also would boost engine makers that are readying a new generation of engines that are about 15 percent more fuel efficient and quieter than the models they would supplant.

The geared turbofan engine from United Technologies Corp.’s Pratt & Whitney and the Leap-X from CFM International, the venture of General Electric Co. and Safran SA of France, are the choices on the announced A320 unveiled by Airbus last month. The CSeries will run on Pratt & Whitney’s geared turbofan.

Current 737s use engines from CFM, while existing A320 models use engines from International Aero Engines, a venture led by Pratt & Whitney and London-based Rolls-Royce Group Plc.

Résultat intéressant à suivre... CSeries ? NEO ? NG ? Mais avec des dates de livraison commençant en 2013 cela va être dur pour le NEO...

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Superjet responds to Delta RFP

Delta Air Lines has received a bid from the Sukhoi Superjet 100 in response to a request for proposal for as many 200 narrowbodies, according to sources close to the situation.
The Superjet is now confirmed among five likely bidders for Delta's contract.
Since Delta released the RFP in early January, Delta CEO Richard Anderson has favourably commented on the Pratt & Whitney PW1000G geared turbofan (GTF), which powers the Airbus A320neo and the Bombardier CSeries.
Anderson also said Boeing, which may offer a re-engined or clean-sheet 737, must equal the performance of the GTF-powered aircraft in the competition. Embraer is also expected to bid for the contract.
Delta is considering a wide range of aircraft types to replace Airbus A320s, Boeing 757-200s and DC-9s after 2013.
Flightglobal's ACAS fleet database shows Delta operates 69 Airbus A320s, 34 DC9-50s and 167 Boeing 757-200s.
Sukhoi Superjet, which is marketed in the US by Alenia North America, received Russian type certification for the Superjet 100 earlier this month

Toucan a écrit:DL publie ses résultats février. Hausse générale, capacité, trafic....et facture de kero. Sauf load factor !

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Mar 3, 2011

ATLANTA, March 3, 2011 /[Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien]/ -- Delta Air Lines (NYSE: DAL) today reported traffic results for February 2011.

System traffic in February 2011 increased 1.4 percent compared to February 2010 on a 6.1 percent increase in capacity.

Load factor decreased 3.4 points to 73.7 percent.

Domestic traffic decreased 0.2 percent year over year on a 1.9 percent increase in capacity.

Domestic load factor decreased 1.7 points to 77.1 percent.

International traffic increased 4.0 percent year over year on a 12.5 percent increase in capacity, and load factor decreased 5.6 points to 68.8 percent.

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