Originally Posted by
Okie Play
They are going to have fun trying to cover what flying is left when every last employee is trying to use up their sick bank before it is too late.
According to an internal DL memo, Comair provides only 1% of the DCI lift. That can be covered very easily by mainline and the remaining DCI.
This is not to gloat. This is a very sad day indeed. However, this is also the price to be paid for mainline carriers reducing their reliance on outsourced carriers. The overall loss of pilot seats at the DCI level due to the new PWA scope at mainline in somewhere around 1600. This is after accounting for the extra 70 allowed 76 seaters. Many view that TA as a scope sellout, yet make no mistake, it will cost a lot of regional pilots their jobs as the seats transition back to mainline, (unfortunately not all 1600 due to other "efficiencies" in the TA.
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There will most likely be more company closings and/or merger/accusitions down the road. What we saw at the legacy level back in 2001-2005, we are now seeing at the regional level.
Sad day indeed.
