Originally Posted by
IBPilot
Originally Posted by
ShyGuy 
Vacancy? You do realize the higher ups are tossing the 'F' word around, and this time, I don't see it as a fear grenade. I knew it would happen. You can't park 36+ airplanes and not expect a single layoff. Our attrition isn't high enough to bail out a loss of several dozen airplanes.
soooo which is it? the F bomb because you can't park 36 planes and not expect a layoff, or we were severely understaffed? make up your mind...
Not "WE" , only Pinnacle was understaffed. Not Mesaba, not Colgan. If it wasn't for this merger, you can bet XJ would have tons more furloughs. Some of them for the third time. The attrition has (finally) picked up, and people are leaving in good numbers. That helps avoid the 'f' word.
Originally Posted by SLI bandit
It was brilliant voting in a contract with 50 seat jet rates being higher than 74 seat t-prop rates. Management is laughing at that one. Does everyone here think all those -200's will go to term? If Delta wanted them gone tomorrow, guess what, they'd be gone, contract be damned.
More Q's are coming. Conited wanted 15 Q's added every two years starting in 2008, for a total of 45 by the end of 2012. 2010's deliveries carried over to 2011 due to UA/CAL fleet realization issues, and other reasons as well I'm sure.
No more -200's are coming. They're leaving. The T-prop to jet ratio in 5 years may shock a few hard-liner jet jockeys here.
PS: after the 45 Q's, there are 60 options.... Do the math...
There's no doubt, but the deliveries, like you said, are not happening anytime soon. And you do realize that by last year of this JCBA, the CRJ-200 and Q400 match up to be exact same.
Btw, since you're a Colgan guy, can you confirm exactly how many Qs you operate right now? And how many are on FIRM delivery, coming for sure, for 2012 and onwards?