Category American Airlines
The Mad Dog won’t go the way of old planes for a while
Bloomberg has this interesting story on Delta and its MD-88 fleet. Plans are to keep these aircraft flying for another three years. American has been retiring its MD-80s as quickly as Boeing delivers its new 737-800s. Well it is interesting…
Delta Versus the ME3 on Open Skies
Delta Air Lines last week produced a 15-minute film to educate employees about the company’s aggressive stance against the ME3. That video can be viewed here. This film is the latest effort in Delta’s campaign to urge the US government…
Delta reaffirms CSeries commitment
In the quarterly earnings report yesterday, Delta’s Glen Hauenstein announced the airline would base its first CS100 in New York. The idea is to relieve that hub of the 76-seaters which be moved elsewhere to replace the 50-seaters which will…
Qatar Airways is Making News at the Paris Air Show
Once again, Akbar Al Baker, Chief Executive of Qatar Airways is making news at the Paris Air Show in several areas. We will quickly summarize them here: 1. An Equity Stake in American Today’s announcement that Qatar has approached American…