Midnight tonight is deadline for old people to pull their bids for the early out. What is the final number we are going to see?
My best guess is 17 will pull their papers leaving 234 heading for the door

Delta Air Lines Inc. will spend up to $20.5 million on severance packages for Comair pilots, a union official said Tuesday.

That works out to about $31,000 for each of Comair’s 660 active pilots.

“It’s quite a bit more than what the company was contractually required to give us,” said Alan Cook, spokesman for the local bargaining unit of the Air Line Pilots Association.

Delta (NYSE: DAL) last month announced the closure of its wholly owned regional carrier, effective Sept. 29.

The Atlanta-based airline confirmed Monday that it reached severance deals with unions representing pilots, machinists and flight attendants.

But it referred questions about severance packages to union leaders.

Cook said the pilot’s union secured three months of health coverage and an assurance that all sick days and vacation days would be fully paid. Eighty percent of payments will be dependant on pilots showing up for at least 85 percent of their scheduled flights. Another 20 percent of payments will depend on how many Comair flights are cancelled because of maintenance problems, crew shortages and other issues.

“Right after the (Comair closure) announcement, we had over 100 sick calls per day,” Cook said. “We’ve got a lot of pilots who had a lot of sick time. They were concerned that they weren’t going to be paid for that.”

The union representing Comair machinists said yesterday that its 240 members would receive severance benefits of up to $40,000 per employee, depending on tenure. Both unions secured a provision for its members to fly free on Delta after Comair closes.

I agree with what you're saying, but I will add that under labor law, no scope contract is a solid scope contract. Permitted flying must be specially stated in a scope contract for it to be legally outsourced. So while it appeared that scope was being restricted in that contract, it was actually being sold off.

That's putting it mildly!!:eek::) I'd make a comment but it's not worth getting in the middle of said "fur ball."

Denny

Bucking Bar

I like your posts, smart, on point, humorous, but you have some splainin' to do about EA starting "scope sales", please, Sir. Unless you consider Air New England's DC-3s. There weren't any planes that were worth outsourcing, back before the DC-9 became the Mad Dog.

GF

Randy Babbit, spoke about his work as Eastern's MEC Chair and is the only ALPA leader who I've heard apologize for permitted flying. He stated that union facilitated outsourcing began under his watch, I think it was with Eastern Metro, Bar Harbor and Southeast. He stated something along the lines of "we pushed B scale off the property." He praised what the Pan Am pilots did, expanding their seniority list down to capture their Pan Am Expess pilots.

The Metroliners and Bandits had their day. The Dash 8's and ATR's are still going strong.

If you want specifics I'll have to dig through a couple of books. Most of this happened pre-internet.

Mr. Babbit, from what I can tell, is a straight shooter and has my respect.

Hmmm. I don't remember this. Not saying it didn't happen, but I was on the Scope-Jet (BAe146-200) from the very beginning, until the time ASA got rid of them. I was Bee-ill's (say that like I typed it, and you'll know who I speak of) training partner at IAD at the Presidential Airlines facility. They were 108 seat jets, reconfigured to 88 pax seats. I never heard about any potential 737's, but Pickett and Beiser never told me jack squat.

Amen brother! We will never accomplish what we are able to with such bickering among ourselves.

I think what Bar is referring to is related to actually training and typing ASA pilots on the 73NG sometime around 2001-2 (if I remember correctly). It did happen, but I don't know for how many pilots it happened.

Agreed. Contract passed, we have to get behind it. Now, just how senior will reserve go now that the ALVs are shrinking. Wonder also how this will affect the bids for the AE.