Originally Posted by
Truman_Sparks
Anybody wanna bet that either Mesa or Pinnacle do not get the 900 flying out of ATL. Pinnacle cannot even staff their current flying, let alone add a new aircraft type, open a new base for a new partner! Doesn't add up.
Mesa is in hugh difficulty with staffing and attrition, and financial difficulty as well. Add in legal trouble, and maybe Delta would be best served with ASA who is in their backyard already and poised to have labor peace for the forseeable future.
Any takers....
Originally Posted by
ExperimentalAB
Agreed. Somebody will be picking up more DAL flying out of ATL, and I doubt it will be both Mesa and Pinnacle. But I hate rumors and I'm dying for some hard-core evidence here LoL
actually it will be pinnacle. vacancies have already been filled and the guys are getting checked out in the 900 right now.. plus they have to give us the minimum flying for the 10 year contract (pinnacle is purchasing the planes) or they have to pay penalties which add up more then the cost of the 17 900's we are starting out with. uncle phil has already stated that we will not lose the delta flying and he will do anything to keep it and make it grow, its his little baby. the nwa flying is what will suffer, not delta. there is a company conference call tomorrow by uncle phil himself, he is supposedly announcing our new mx bases and the type of flying we will be doing for delta out of atlanta... slc, and lax are future bases, and yes we will have bases there. we had 1100 pilots on the seniority list about 9 months ago, now we have a little over 1400,, getting people here isn't the probably, getting them to stay is, but they don't care about attrition, keeps it cheap.