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.
I obviously don't fly for 9E so I can't speak for either DAL or 9E; but after flying CR9's out of ATL while being based and living in ATL for a solid year, not once did DAL ever cancel a single FLT of mine nor have I ever heard of DAL canceling a single SKW CR9 FLT so that they can either get their a/c out or in...............as a matter of fact the few times I can remember being delayed more than 15 minutes was due to the airport being closed (storms). I'm not saying it doesn't happen but only twice did my FLT get canceled. The first was caused by the ground crew who ran a cart into our parted a/c which accused substantial damage. My second was when we timed out as did many other mainline and regional carrier pilots due to a freak snow storm that hit ATL (it’s ATL, at best it snows once every few years) last January 16th.
But who knows, maybe DAL started laying the foundation for this cancellation attempt many months ago by assisting in 9E poor performance. I’m sure that once your lawyers start researching others performance vs. the number of DAL cancellations vs. the cancellation reasons; it should result in an easy argument on 9E behalf. I’m not confident that it will result in you guys retaining the flying but it should result in a pretty large settlement.
Best of luck guys.