Originally Posted by
flyandive
True, but they have about 700, we have about 1,100 active or so. They are going to have to furlough another few hundred, close CVG, and get some sort of stability, i.e. no growth, but no loss of flying either, before I consider my predictions true. Then they will just recall for attrition. Maybe even open a few more small bases in the Northeast to take the load off of JFK. BOS, LGA, and DCA? Maybe. Doubt it will happen like that or anytime soon, but there ya go. At the very least I think they will stabilize significantly below 1,000 pilots before they will be able to turn around. What happened to Mesaba and/or Air Wisconsin, a few years ago, are good examples of what will likely happen.
Ah, but your living in a post-merger world now. All the Comair ground people will not be Comair anymore (RHS) and then they will furlough more aircrews and get it down to an easier to manage number of employees. When this happens, it will be merged with Mesaba and be called something stupid like "AirAlliance" This will be an easier to manage wholly owned subsiderary of Delta.
Oh, by the way....
RHS?
Real Horse S*#t (in case you did not know what it stood for)
