Qater/DL Atlanta A380 Premiere
Jun 6, 2016, 8:28 pm
#151
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Enlighten us how a 30 member crew are going to help evacuate 500 including 100 old and frail at a offsite where there is no Fire Rescue nearby.
Jun 6, 2016, 9:26 pm
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Apologies if this has been linked, I scrolled through the posts and didn't see this link to a letter I saw via a post on airliners.net. A blogger has posted a screen shot of the letter the interim GM of ATL sent to Qatar about the issue on 5/31. Options were given for them to use E1/E3 at different arrival/departure times for their first flight.
Good God. Do you ever listen to yourself?
Jun 6, 2016, 9:31 pm
#154
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Jun 7, 2016, 6:09 am
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Jun 7, 2016, 7:04 am
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Oh please.
DL is a customer of ATL just like QR. Only 1000x bigger. DL has no role or responsibility to make QR stay a pleasurable one.
DL probably creates 200,000 jobs and brings $20 Billion/year to Atlanta MSA.
The whopping 50 jobs created by QR are irrelevant. Chicago Mayor's filing with USDOT clearly states ME carriers won't create more than 50 jobs per flight.
I think its about time DL legal have a chat with the blogger who fed this false story to CNN.
DL is a customer of ATL just like QR. Only 1000x bigger. DL has no role or responsibility to make QR stay a pleasurable one.
DL probably creates 200,000 jobs and brings $20 Billion/year to Atlanta MSA.
The whopping 50 jobs created by QR are irrelevant. Chicago Mayor's filing with USDOT clearly states ME carriers won't create more than 50 jobs per flight.
I think its about time DL legal have a chat with the blogger who fed this false story to CNN.
Jun 7, 2016, 11:35 am
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Oh QR. You were so excited to bring the ME3 to ATL. You threw a ton of shade in the media, and sent the A380 to christen the event but forgot that the one off A380 was different from the regularly scheduled 777.
FACE --> PALM!
FACE --> PALM!
Jun 7, 2016, 12:29 pm
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It's amazing how many people in this thread think the fact that delta routinely changes gates for a particular flight is relevant here. When delta changes a gate for a flight it's not like the old gate doesn't get used. Accomodating the QR flight here would have required TWO gates, which delta would have no way of replacing, and would require them for multiple hours. It's not even close to the same thing.
Jun 7, 2016, 12:39 pm
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It's amazing how many people in this thread think the fact that delta routinely changes gates for a particular flight is relevant here. When delta changes a gate for a flight it's not like the old gate doesn't get used. Accomodating the QR flight here would have required TWO gates, which delta would have no way of replacing, and would require them for multiple hours. It's not even close to the same thing.
Jun 7, 2016, 2:12 pm
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Oh please.
DL is a customer of ATL just like QR. Only 1000x bigger. DL has no role or responsibility to make QR stay a pleasurable one.
DL probably creates 200,000 jobs and brings $20 Billion/year to Atlanta MSA.
The whopping 50 jobs created by QR are irrelevant. Chicago Mayor's filing with USDOT clearly states ME carriers won't create more than 50 jobs per flight.
I think its about time DL legal have a chat with the blogger who fed this false story to CNN.
DL is a customer of ATL just like QR. Only 1000x bigger. DL has no role or responsibility to make QR stay a pleasurable one.
DL probably creates 200,000 jobs and brings $20 Billion/year to Atlanta MSA.
The whopping 50 jobs created by QR are irrelevant. Chicago Mayor's filing with USDOT clearly states ME carriers won't create more than 50 jobs per flight.
I think its about time DL legal have a chat with the blogger who fed this false story to CNN.
Jun 7, 2016, 4:56 pm
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Let me rephrase it for you, DL has nothing to do with this story. At all.
Some blogger made this a DL issue and Confused News Network ran the story with a catchy headline, and everyone jumped on the bandwagon.
Unfortunately any action by DL will attract more negative publicity.
Some blogger made this a DL issue and Confused News Network ran the story with a catchy headline, and everyone jumped on the bandwagon.
Unfortunately any action by DL will attract more negative publicity.
Jun 7, 2016, 6:13 pm
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Let me rephrase it for you, DL has nothing to do with this story. At all.
Some blogger made this a DL issue and Confused News Network ran the story with a catchy headline, and everyone jumped on the bandwagon.
Unfortunately any action by DL will attract more negative publicity.
Some blogger made this a DL issue and Confused News Network ran the story with a catchy headline, and everyone jumped on the bandwagon.
Unfortunately any action by DL will attract more negative publicity.
Jun 8, 2016, 7:27 am
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Almost all my flights from South Asia and Indian continent have been to remote stands in DOH. In some cases, there were old pax (not disabled) who could have used the jet bridge walking down the stairs. I do not know why Qatar is making a big scene of this incident in ATL while back home they do it on certain routes almost always.
Ethically, what DL did might not be right. But hey, why would DL go out of its way to help someone who flew to ATL to "rub it in DL's wounds"
Ethically, what DL did might not be right. But hey, why would DL go out of its way to help someone who flew to ATL to "rub it in DL's wounds"
Jun 8, 2016, 7:39 am
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As long as the weather is nice I wouldn't mind using stairs. These days even CRJ's and ERJ's use jetways and that kind of takes away the fun from flying the 50 seat jets. I think the last time I got to boad an rj using stairs was a few years ago on a CRJ-700 from SAN-LAX from the commuter terminal. But I think DL has moved those flights to the main terminal now.