Emirates says Seattle flight delayed 6 hours as Delta withheld $300 spare part

Scary fo the general public ? what, this is a state sponsored Airline taking people to Dubai... the city that real life slaves built. Their goal is to feed everyone thru Dubai or Doha and take over, because they have money to buy A380's & Triple sevens with money we provide over years of oil purchases. Come on - we should do anything and everything to limit unfair operations.
So much of our economy depends on air travel, 9 11 destroyed it and years of growth too.
Yet we have to compete in an unfair world market with subsidized companies like Emirates.
And were all just sleeping thinking it will go away.

The plane is assembled miles from SEA. So why not put a call into Boeing ? There is a lot of ass kissing boeing needs to do to please one its biggest customers - hell they probably had one of the EK birds on the flight line in Everett. Am I crazy to think a cab ride could have saved hours here??

The hype-to-reality ratio on this story is astoundingly out of balance

How is it that Alaska has a part for a 777 apart from it being some universal generic piece?

If the part was actually installed on the Emirates aircraft, it would be of no use to Delta until it went to a shop to be recertified. The serviceable tag is only good for one installation. It would not fit into robbed parts scenario, because it was not a Delta aircraft it was installed on.

Sounds like a sensible policy on Delta's part. I imagine Emirates and Alaska both have a similar policy. This story is written as if "poor little Emirates" is being bullied by "big bad Delta". Most of these G3 against US3 stories are written in the same style. My question is why not ask "code share partner Alaska" in the first place? I guess there would be no hand-wringing story to write otherwise.

Presuming the story's timeline holds as-is..methinks someone from Atlanta with a title beginning with a "C" in it ordered the part removed.

Doubtful that anyone in Delta's Sea-Tac MNTNC dropped everything they were doing and sprinted off with the part for repair on a competitor's A/C, before anyone had the opportunity to assess the min/max inventory order point for this item, or to consider it's critical part nature.

Anyone with experience being in someone else's hub knows about being dropped to the bottom of the bucket as far as priority.

That's just sad and vindictive. Thanks to Alaska Air for coming to the rescue.

Delta has a hub in Salt Lake City and claim to have a hub in Seattle. I bet there are plenty of parts in SLC if SEA was short. It would have been simple to put a few on the next flight to Seattle and let Emirates use it. I agree there were other reasons beside inventory that lead them to decide to pull the part back after issue. It looks like Delta's logistics are in question, too.

There is an agrreement covering lending of spare parts amongst carriers ( in my time it was called ATLAS) and, if applicable, tbis would have compelled Delta to provide the spare whatever quantity was available. If Delta had given and then retrived one this was in complete violation of this agreement ( if applicable in this case.....)

This is a preposterous story. What better place could there be in the world to source even the most rarely used part for a 777 than Seattle which is within driving distance of the plant that makes the aircraft? As someone else has pointed out that part was second-hand as soon as it was removed from the Emirates plane and therefore could not be immediately re-used no matter how dire the need - might as well have let them keep it and get on their way.

How frequently is the part needed? What is the normal inventory level? How long is reorder to receipt delay? If the answers are something like 'frequently', 6, 2 weeks, then Delta may have a point. Otherwise would Alaska stiff Delta?

Hard to disagree with the commercial and operational logic being applied by Delta! After all, their cockpit crew have to constantly be thinking of the worst case scenarios to keep everyone safe...

Thanks DELTA for making our country look bad!

This is scary on so many levels for the general flying public.