Originally Posted by
TurboDog
Does anyone find this portion of the President's Message on EPIC important?
"The other 2,600 employees, who currently work in various capacities within our Customer Services organization, will become RHS employees as soon as this fall."
There were 5700 employees at comair and 3100 of them just got spun off into another company. the remaining 2600 would include unionized workgroups.
Originally Posted by
Boomer
As I read it, the 2600 will be spun off from Comair and become RHS.
3100 will remain, including the unionized groups.
Originally Posted by
TurboDog
How many employees do you think this company has? We don't have 5700 customer service employees + all of the unionized employees. As of today a few thousand employees were spun off and became Regional Handling Services. The memo say by fall the remaining few thousand will then become Regional Handling Services. That's what I don't get.
Here's the quote I saw (from Epic) -
Straight Talk: RHS Announcement, Operational Performance10-Feb-2009
In his most recent message, recorded on Tuesday, February 10, President John Bendoraitis talks to the Comair team regarding today's announcement about the formation of Regional Handling Services, specifically how the news is a "win-win" for Delta, Comair and our Customer Services team members.
"This is obviously a very big change for us, as with this announcement, Comair will reduce our overall size by nearly half, from about 5,700 to 3,100 employees," John said in his message. "The other 2,600 employees, who currently work in various capacities within our Customer Services organization, will become RHS employees as soon as this fall."
The 5700 is Comair today. 2600 will leave in the fall and become RHS. That leaves 3100 still at Comair (including pilots, FAs, MX, dispatchers, and potential CEOs).
I agree the paragraph could have been worded better. I don't think Bendo is saying that Comair is laying off 2600 employees now and then will lose another 2600 to RHS in the fall. That would leave Comair with around 500 employees, and when you subtract the potential CEOs and schedulers-in-training you're left with 34 crusty old pilots wondering why half of them are going to JFK as First Officers.
