Originally Posted by
9easy
I think a lot of DL pilots think their new contact, comair, 9E, and Regional Elite are some kind of grand altruistic scheme to in-source jobs and have a higher quality product (ala Southwest.)
Sadly this isn't true. The vast majority of RE stations will be turned over to 3rd party companies with employees would don't care about your customers anymore than it requires for them to keep their meager job. The CRJ200's would be going away contract or not, and they continue to source large RJ flying to the most low-quality, cheap lift they can find.
Ah, someone who *gets* the big picture.
I can't help but chuckle when I see all the young and naive believe the rhetoric about how this is "a good thing". DAL is getting a few more planes, that's about it as far as the regionals are concerned and future job opportunities. (Where are all those jobs, BTW? Anyone hear of massive hiring at DAL ANYTIME in the near future???)
They're also getting more inexperienced pilots at the cheap regionals (and he** they keep loweringthe bar in work rules, contract terms, etc.) and add insult to injury, cheap, cheap ground operations. One step forward, two steps back. This is really going to be quite some show in a year or so. DAL will have noone to blame but themselves.