I am officially sick of American Airlines bankruptcy and happy to talk about another airline:  Delta Airlines.

Delta Airlines pilots have ratified a new contract that should put Delta in an excellent position to be the dominant SuperLegacy carrier in the United States.  The new contract allows Delta to shift its flying from loss-making 50 seat regional jets to larger, profit-making regional jets over the next few years.

Part of this contract is what allows Delta to take on the Boeing 717 jets from Southwest Airlines.  Those jets will be flown by Delta pilots and now doubt represent how Delta intends to provide more jobs for its union pilots.

Interesting to me is that 62% of the pilots said yes to the contract.  I suspect this is representative of the former Northwest pilots at the company who are more strident and wish to see more of the flying being done by Delta done by Delta pilots.

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