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Old 04-18-2008 | 11:22 AM
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Originally Posted by andy171773
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.
Since you work for Comair, you might be right at that. I did read that DAL likes the CRJ9 performance result coming in to DAL and to NWA versus the E175s, so it would not surprise me one bit if DAL plans to order more CRJ9s for Comair and replace CRJ200s. This is especially true when the fuel price keeps skyrocketing. Even a 10% fuel savings could change the dynamics.
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