Did anyone else see the video of Ed Bastian basically confirming Compass and GoJet will no longer be flying for Delta. I saw it posted to a FB group today, via youtube.

https://youtu.be/4s8x65QfE0c

 

You are late to the party. Follow along in the other thread.

 

I was talking to a high level Delta Corporate guy yesterday and asked about the 3 regional plan.

He said that the last deal with Compass was just a 2 year deal that they did because Skywest could not handle all the flying that they wanted to give to Skywest at the time. I guess Skywest was already getting a bunch of 175s for them at the time and could not add pilots fast enough to take on more flying.

He said that Skywest moved a bunch of planes east and they gave Compass the west coast flying that Compass has there now. But, when that 2 year contract ends he said that Skywest will be moving back west. I wanted to ask if Skywest was moving the east coast stuff back west or adding new west coast flying, but he was on a roll and I didn't want to slow him down. I'm guessing he meant new west coast flying and he didn't phrase it correctly. Anyone have info on this? He talked faster than I could keep up.

He mentioned that Delta is very concerned with working with TSH because of lawsuits by employees against them for terminating employees taking FMLA and firing protected Guard or Reservists. "The last thing we need is to hear about how are regionals are taking health insurance away from people with cancer to save money or reservists who are fighting for the country." I thought that was interesting. He mentioned the Dr being dragged off of Republic on a United flight was very bad for United.

So is all the Compass flying going to go to American? Maybe United would like those 170s flying for them? Any chance of flying for Alaska? They won't close will they?

 

That’s not... the last deal with Delta was not a 2 year deal. I’ll just leave it at that.

 

Delta CEO said in an invested meeting last month they are done with both gojet and compass. They are consolidating their regionals to endeavor, Skywest and republic. American has been bringing all their flying back in house to their wo’s United already has to rid itself of 25 crj’s for scope so doubt they will be adding compass flying. Don’t see Alaska adding a regional under them

 

I don’t think that the working relationship is very good between Delta and TSH.

 

I don't think TSH management has a good relationship with anybody right now. I think its probable the Delta Compass airplanes still end up at Republic, the Delta Gojet planes at Endeavor, the United Gojet planes get parked, and the TSA 145s end up at as part of the new UAL joint venture. Hopefully with the pilots but we'll see....

 

That’s what my crystal ball says with American taking their flying from compass as well

 

Dead link btw

 

Im sure they took it down because its not public yet... SEC could have a issue with people buying selling stock based off of that videos info...(thats only Republic. Becythe other two are private companies).

Guess what im saying is they could have announced a extension to the Compass contract and snuffed out what he said.. but they didn’t (September it’s up) either way will know soon..