Originally Posted by Boomer

Sure, I already mentioned it. Delta came to Comair with a deal for ALPA: 2 year pay freeze in exchange for 35 aircraft. A no vote means the aircraft go to Republic and Skywest. Vote passes 61% to 39%. Delta grabs one CRJ off of ASA’s certificate, gives it to Comair, and the pay freeze kicks in the first day it’s in revenue service. ASA guys throw a cow because “Comair took concessions to fly our planes” but they forget it overnight because Delta announces that ASA has just been sold to SKW.

Fast forward several weeks. Delta files bankruptcy, and as a wholly-owned, Comair goes BK as well. Delta immediately notifies Comair that, due to Comair’s BK status, they will not be able to receive any more aircraft. The aircraft slated for Comair are instead going to Republic. Several aircraft currently at Comair are also redistributed amongst other Delta regionals. Guess what happened to our pay? Still frozen, because a deal’s a deal.

The deal was, if Delta didn’t award Comair the promised aircraft, then TWO YEAR LATER our pay freeze is unfrozen. But in the meantime Delta 1113’d the Comair ALPA and the contract was negated. We never got the planes or the pay.

No hard feelings, though. I’m sure Delta had no idea that they were weeks from BK when, in good faith, they signed the deal with Comair.