Originally Posted by
av8sean
Mesa and Pinnacle WERE meeting the terms of their contracts... You can't blame Mesa or Pinnacle for cancellations when you pro-actively cancel their flights in order to get mainline out. In the case with Pinnacle, they were also making them fly to St. Croix which required deadheading a double crew to fly the plane back, as well as the fact that Pinnacle planes aren't overwater certified - the indirect routings often caused fuel diversions.
As an outside observer, who is writing these contracts then for the regional partner?? Pinnacle certainly didn't cover the details of specific flying and left themselves exposed in a bad busines contract. If this is the case, appears like DAL wrote something they believe is airtight, Why? They dropped Mesa, Mesa gets injunction, DAL obviously believes they will prevail in court against Mesa because they are doing it again and clearly aren't worried about Pinnacle getting an injuction. The DAL lawyers must feel pretty confident about their end of the contract. No excuses in business, ooops, they got us on that one stuff.
I hope you all do OK, but sounds like management signing off on a poor contract and DAL knows exactly what they want. Pilots scrogged by bad management.