Originally Posted by
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Farva - there was no doom and gloom painted in RGS. Furloughs are no more imminent today than they were a month ago. Yes, they're working on furlough mitigation projects and besides TOWOP, nothing further has been announced. So... I don't take that as being doom and gloom. You new guys have no idea what doom and gloom is! You will definitely know, when things are bad around here.
DL has changed as the wind blows with respect to many things. It's becoming VERY obvious that DL shoots from the hip, whereas NWA was very calculated, precise and predictable. So worrying about FALL block hours today will only waste energy.
Don't be such a negative nelly.
I agree.. I was in RGS recently and I didn't take anything away from it other than there wasn't anything new happening.
It was reiterated to us that SLC was NOT a testing run, temporary step. Mesaba was, in fact, to have more in SLC because they did NOT want JFK, or the performance numbers that go with it, under any circumstance. Skywest said they wanted JFK and we ended up with 5 planes instead of 10 in SLC (the remaining 5 in ATL) because of the current contract with Skywest / ASA.
Nothing more, nothing less.