Originally Posted by
Ominous
Hmmmm... Short memory displayed here...
ASA lost jets to Comair to satisfy that ridiculous TA you all ratified back in '03 or so. I remember double-taking a CR2 in CLT that had an AS tail number but Comair written on the side. When things were good for Comair, you all didn't seem to mind getting other airline's planes. The shoe is on the other... Table, which has turned.
Karma, IMO.
Ominous, I'm sure you guys had to be dragged kicking and screaming down the jetway to fly those CA and QX tails, right?
Especially at DCI, if somebody's winning, someone else is probably losing. And while it's easy to think of them as "our" jets, one thing Comair taught me is that in reality we only owned a handful. The rest are borrowed. And even that doesn't matter when Delta controls your block hours - our minimum fleet guarantee kept a lot of birds on property for a while, but it didn't stop management from storing them in droves in Old Remote in CVG.
As BlueMoon points out, the tail number doesn't always tell the whole story.
Hope you get out before the other shoe drops...