Originally Posted by
NuGuy
Heyas,
Bummer about Comair. Karma can be a real biatch, sometimes.
I predicted ages ago that Comair would become the DCI version of Piedmont. Slim down to just enough lift to where ATL can pickup the phone and get lift someplace tomorrow to protect a slot pair, and thats about it.
This is why also why counting on the commuters to pull themselves up and "protect wages" is a fool's errand by ALPA. You can't do that unless you own the flying.
We should own it all here.
Nu
As very junior Comair guy, I really wished that Delta owned all the flying (so hopefully I would have a shot at Delta as opposed to the unemployment line).
I know the whole history of Comair's MEC being rude to Delta folks.... and I'm sorry they acted like that. I was hired in 2007 by Comair. I wish I knew how bad the blood was before I went to Comair, because my main reason for going to Comair was to be a Delta FO at some point. The people in our old MEC were the same people who were telling FO's today that, "This announcement doesn't affect me much, i'm in the top 50." These people you hate-- well, we hate them too.
All I'm asking, is to please don't lump us together, and realize that some of us don't want to spend our lives at a regional, and believe it or not-- we aren't jerks like some of the super senior Comair folk.
Thanks,
Pilotguy143