I'll believe it when I see it. Not saying I don't want this to happen. I just think the company should slow down and figure out Florida before anything else. Our Saabs that were supposed to be in FL months ago are now up north doing contract flying. As a result our 1900s will still be in FL until at least January...adding to that is MIA opening in the next two or three months.

They need to figure out ATL too. 0 reserves in GLH, MEI, and ATL for the weekend and trips that need to be covered tomorrow.

He'll they need to figure out just how to be an airline...

They are going to put the q400 on that we are Colgan in fast forward. The rumours are Iah, msp, lga, sju am I missing any?

[QUOTE=joethepilot;1271067]I heard they're going to pick up some of the Northwest Saab routes that Daddy Delta dropped in MSP ie St Cloud[/QUOTE

Most are EAS routes and most have been picked up already by SkyWest and Great Lakes.

[QUOTE=PerpetualFlyer;1273232]Actually not true... st. cloud for example is not. there's quite a few others that are not EAS... CWA, st. cloud, BJI and a few others come to mind

ATL operation is Hot mess!!!! I am sure they will get it sorted , but man for now they are upsetting customers !

Hopefully it will get better ,

??? (Filler)

Seattle, keep hearing that in the crew room. Until something is on a staffing bid, I am a skeptic about it. No use in getting excited over something that is ONLY a rumor.

What's going on with the ATL ops? I hear the same thing about IAD and wonder if it's like the FLL-TLH routes, but on a larger scale.

Might want to do a little research here. Here's a link to the 24 cities Delta reduced or cut service to:

Delta Air Lines Newsroom - Press Kit

Of these 24, 17 are EAS subsidized and 7 are not. I think it's safe to say MOST are EAS subsidized.

Of these 17, 4 were awarded to Delta to be contracted out by them to one of their code share partners (Hibbing and Escabana to SkyWest, and pelliston and Sault Ste Marie to Pinnacle). 3 were awarded to SkyWest (Alpena, Iron Mountain, and international falls). 6 were awarded to Great Lakes (Thief River Falls, Devils Lake, Watertown, Ft Dodge, Jamestown, and Mason City). And 4 were Awarded to Silver, but these 4 were always flown to either Memphis or Atlanta, so they are irrelevant (Greenville, Muscle Shoals, Tupelo, and Hattiesburg).

So, that's 17 EAS contracts, 11 to SkyWest and Great Lakes, 2 to Pinnacle, and 4 to Silver. So once again, I think it's safe to say MOST were awarded to Skywest and Great Lakes.

As for the other 7 unsubsidized out of the 24 cities, 3 are serviced by SkyWest (Butte, Aberdeen, and Bemidji), 2 by Great Lakes (Pierre and Brainard), and the other two were always serviced by Eagle (Waterloo and Sioux City).

This brings the total distribution of the 24 cities to 8 for Great Lakes, 8 for Skywest, 4 Silver, 2 Pinnacle, and 2 Eagle (Again, safely saying most went to Skywest and Great Lakes).

So where exactly is this opportunity for Silver to pick up flying for Delta out of MSP?