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True, but that doesn't prevent Delta from coming to Comair pilots and saying,Originally Posted by acl65pilot
Pilot costs are a small portion of total costs.
"See what you made us do? Now find a way to take $17 million out of the next contract or we'll have no choice but to do the same with the planes you have left"
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But Delta still winds up owning the planes. They just move them from Comair to Freedom to Comair to Pinnacle to Mesaba to ASA (The NxxxLR 900s) or from Comair to ASA to SKW to GoJetssss (The NxxxCA 700s).Originally Posted by acl65pilot
As I stated a few pages ago, the real costs are the costs of ownership and carrying the added debt on your balance sheet.
All that moving around trying to save a buck and the hulls are still on Delta's debt sheet.