Originally Posted by
Lighteningspeed
It is a speculation but if you recall DAL was going to sell before the merger as DAL management felt it was burned by the Comair strike. There are couple of factors against Comair as far as DAL management is concerned and the foremost is that Comair is heavy with 50 seat RJs, which are no longer economically viable for DAL and Anderson needs to unload them and the quickest way to do that is to sell and it also raises cash. The other is there is a bad blood between DAL management team and Comair and more than a few aviation analysts have forecasted the sale of Comair as the likely scenario. But then again, who knows what the new DAL will do. They may just keep Comair and try to convert CRJ200s to all CRJ7 and 9s.
The rumor mill around here is that we are getting more 90's than anticipated. Our presidente mentioned more 90's to a new hire FA class.
I'm really not gonna bite on the "burned by comair strike thing". It's obviously a fact, DL did get shafted when that happened, but it was also about 5 years ago. They did/have wanted to sell comair for a while. But the difficulty selling comair, is the exact problem Delta is having. NO ONE wants to buy a 50 seat heavy airline.
I don't think DL will shed us at this point, hey..maybe even seeing what NW has done with it's two regionals and how it can be a harmonious partnership may change its recent strategy of pitting the regionals against each other...Put us all in a boardroom and have us peck each others eyes out to the tune of "how low can you go?".
Anderson seems like a smart guy, he might realize that "hey, we let Mesa take a *(#$@(#$ load of flying..and now look what's going on"
Cheapest isn't bestest, Comair can be DL's fall back. Even if we're a bit of a cashcow "up front" this company has made A MASSIVE amount of money for daddy D.
Who knows though, anything can happen.