Originally Posted by jsfBoat

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.

Hell I already bought 2 new crash pads there this is happening

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.

Originally Posted by PerpetualFlyer

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?

Originally Posted by nancy33

I think you answered your own question...Great Lakes... we are no better however people in the north hate Lakes with a passion and would love to see anyone else. We also don't have the same name so they think it is a different company but we still are just as bad but in their eyes we would be better until we got up there

Originally Posted by joethepilot

Amazing how quickly the other shoe has dropped... Silver is offering Voluntary Leave without Pay.

Originally Posted by 200Driver

Wow lol glass half empty? Only reason for the slight over staffing is due to no aircraft deliveries. Once the aircraft start arriving the staffing levels will be back to normal and I bet we will be short people / pilots once again.

Originally Posted by 200Driver

Wow lol glass half empty? Only reason for the slight over staffing is due to no aircraft deliveries. Once the aircraft start arriving the staffing levels will be back to normal and I bet we will be short people / pilots once again.