Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler

Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler | Airline Operations | Delta Private Jets

DVA12321
Captain, B737-800

Joined on August 20 2014
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"Keep Climbing"
Herndon, VA

148 legs, 269.9 hours
125 legs, 229.6 hours online
127 legs, 230.2 hours ACARS
12 legs, 27.4 hours event

Posted onPost created on July 31 2015 13:00 ET by Piper Forsen

So, I'm sure many of you have heard of the 'new' "Delta Private Jets." (If not, here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_Private_Jets) I have a couple of questions.
1: What are your thoughts on this? Should airlines stay airlines and not get involved with bizjets, or should there be something nice to look forwards to using your miles on?
2 (the big one): Is DVA going to try to somehow incorporate DPJ into our amazing VA? I like the DPJ idea, and adding DPJ to DVA could be a nice departure (pun intended) from commercial flights. You could drop off your 737, then go ferry a VIP from ATL-MCO in a Phenom 300. I think this could be a good idea, so I'm asking this.

Will we ever try to incorporate DPJ?

Richmond

PS. One reason I'm asking this is that, today, the CL300 for X-Plane is on sale for 33% off

Piper Forsen

Captain, B737-800

DVA9263
Senior Captain, B737-800
OLP

Joined on December 11 2010
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Scandinavia

1,204 legs, 5,875.8 hours
1,187 legs, 5,792.3 hours online
1,202 legs, 5,870.0 hours ACARS
19 legs, 77.1 hours event

Posted onPost created on August 01 2015 07:15 ET by Peter Lund

I have heard of Delta Private Jets before and Qatar also have a Executive company with similar colour scheme to the commercial one. I don´t care if an airline have a executive company or not as long as it works out.

I don´t think DVA will incorperate DPJ, but never say never. I will leave it to the big bosses.

Peter Lund

Senior Captain, B737-800

DVA2887
Senior Captain, A320
OLP, 737-ATP, VFRADV
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Joined on January 30 2006
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Charlotte, NC

1,286 legs, 1,796.2 hours
840 legs, 1,047.8 hours online
1,268 legs, 1,774.2 hours ACARS
31 legs, 49.6 hours event
3 legs dispatched, 2.5 hours

Posted onPost created on August 01 2015 07:26 ET by Andrew Vane

We don't plan on implementing business jets at this time. The only business type jet we have in our fleet is the 737-BBJ which is part of the 737 rating.

Andrew Vane (DVA2887)

Posted onPost created on August 04 2015 12:59 ET by Piper Forsen

Ok. Thanks for the response. It would be nice to cool down in a small bizjet, but I guess that's why we have the Saab 340 (my favorite prop) wink

Piper Forsen

Captain, B737-800

DVA6622
Captain, B767-300
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Joined on November 09 2008
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Vandalia, OH USA

365 legs, 635.8 hours
347 legs, 610.0 hours ACARS

Posted onPost created on August 05 2015 00:25 ET by Daniel Betts

By the way, Delta Private Jets is not something new, it's been around for a while. It started out with Comair back in 1984 before becoming Delta Air Elite in 2000.

Daniel Betts

Captain, B767-300

Posted onPost created on August 05 2015 13:39 ET by Piper Forsen

Daniel Betts wrote:

By the way, Delta Private Jets is not something new, it's been around for a while. It started out with Comair back in 1984 before becoming Delta Air Elite in 2000.

Yeah, I meant that the "Upgrading for $300" thing is new, not DPJ itself. That was just a case of bad wording on my part.

Piper Forsen

Captain, B737-800

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