Originally Posted by buzzpat (Post 1230858)

What's your deal? Too much PurpleDrank? How would you know what Delta does/pays? Your grandmother is calling....she wants her basement back.

Originally Posted by TheTriColor (Post 1230920)

Based on his first few posts, he strikes me as one of these FNWA MSP based, always bitter, always complaining about how "Delta"'is screwing him, always talking about how everything NWA did was better than how "Delta" does it....basically complains about anything involving " Delta" type. Quite a joy to fly with. There's quite a few running around MSP.

Originally Posted by DALFA

Quick question.

During the interview process does HR prefer hiring someone coming from AWA/AE/OO etc over someone coming from a smaller regional such as Great Lakes?

Originally Posted by DALFA (Post 1230928)

Quick question.

During the interview process does HR prefer hiring someone coming from AWA/AE/OO etc over someone coming from a smaller regional such as Great Lakes?

Originally Posted by Aviation Week and Space Technology

SkyWest Concerned About 50-Seater Fleet Under Delta’s New Feeder Plan
Aviation Daily Jul16, 2012 , p. 1.01
Andrew Compart



Delta Air Lines ’ plan to encourage its regional airline partners to end their 50-seat regional jet flying before feeder contracts expire could run into resistance at SkyWest , the largest regional operator in the U.S., unless the affected aircraft can continue to generate revenue.

Delta plans to offer its regional airline partners contracts for new or additional 76-seat flying as an incentive to break current capacity supply agreements and reduce 50-seat regional jet operations, Delta’s pilots union says. Enabling that plan was a major motivator for the new labor contract that Delta and the AirLinePilotsAssociation ( ALPA ) finalized in June.

SkyWest CFO Michael Kraupp, however, tells Aviation Week that such an offer would not be acceptable unless an alternative is provided for the 50-seat jets.

“We have no interest in parking aircraft,” Kraupp says. “I don’t think you can make enough on dual-class aircraft coming in to justify the costs in parking the aircraft.”

Various DeltaConnection carriers currently operate about 345 50-seat regional jets for Delta, but the airline wants to reduce the number to 125 as soon as the end of 2015 because high fuel costs have made the aircraft increasingly uneconomical and many of the engines are coming due for expensive overhauls.

Delta is contractually obligated to operate 311 of its 50-seat aircraft through the end of 2015 and 155 through 2019, according to ALPA .

SkyWest subsidiaries SkyWest Airlines and ExpressJet operate about 90 and 60 Bombardier CRJ200 aircraft , respectively, for Delta, under 15-year contracts that Kraupp says do not expire until 2020. Kraupp is emphatic that Delta does not have any rights in the current contract to tell SkyWest to cease the 50-seater operations before the agreements expire.

Apart from SkyWest ’s two divisions, Delta also contracts 50-seat jet feed from Pinnacle Airlines, which is operating under Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection with Delta financing, and from Republic Airways subsidiary Chautauqua Airlines. Delta’s own subsidiary, Comair, also operates 50-seat jets .

Pinnacle, however, is the most venerable of these feeders , with 141 CRJ200s assigned to the Delta contract .

Originally Posted by KC10 FATboy (Post 1230917)

Need crashpad information for NYC. Can someone please message me.

Thanks.

Originally Posted by Bucking Bar (Post 1230970)

Regionals already pushing back against plan to park 50 seaters: