News and notes from around the interweb:
- Live and Let’s Fly says Singapore Airlines economy is fantastic. I told you…
- Hawaii tourism authority officials are in hot water for taking upgrades from Japan Airlines, China Airlines, Air China and China Southern Airlines (HT: Michael Park)
- Lufthansa’s Miles and More now offers online partner award booking
- Delta ordered 100 Airbus A321neos while continuing to claim of course that major Boeing customers Etihad, Emirates, and Qatar are a threat to US jobs. The deal is ‘valued at $12.7 billion’ which means it’s really no more than half that. Meanwhile Bloomberg‘s Julie Johnsson points out,
Don't underestimate the role of services in Delta's monster @Airbus order. The agreement to repair 5,000+ Pratt engines via @Delta TechOps provides a 2nd revenue stream.https://t.co/AJlx9a8bQJ
— Julie Johnsson (@juliejohnsson) December 14, 2017
- Sun Country Airlines is being sold
- 5 Fairmont stays or 10 nights plus 90 Euros gets Accor Platinum status (use Google translate) this arbitrages the way Accor will fold Fairmont into its loyalty program with status matches.
Wandering Aramean had a GREAT writeup of the DL Airbus deal.
Continued attacks against DL by @gary are really getting tired…
@Robert and I chose not to write up the Airbus deal because it wasn’t that interesting to me today, I simply made not of it here. I see that Wandering Aramean noted the jet engine deal maintenance, and I simply referenced Julie Johnsson who made the point earlier.
As far as “Continued attacks against DL by @gary are really getting tired…” Continued Delta hypocrisy gets really tired, the attacks from me are REALLY easy to stop . . .
Trick would be getting the status free and clear … but thanks anyhow!
I thought Seth was nuts, claiming that “the profits from the Pratt & Whitney MRO contract could essentially pay out the capital costs of acquiring the aircraft.” with no substantiation. When you even do a cursory attempt at running the numbers, the cost of the 100 planes will be north of $6B- how do you turn out that kind of profit servicing $15B worth of engine repairs?
Plus, much, if not most of the money paid to DTO to service the 1,100’s will be paid by Delta! What’s next- a claim that better Delta meals will pay for themselves by the higher profits generated by the Delta catering arm!
At least Gary, as a CFO, gets his basic math right. And Delta deserves to be bashed over buying Airbus when it wraps itself in the flag vs the ME3.