The toilet paper in Richard Anderson's private bathroom probably cost more than the extra expenses of several p'd off Comair pilots running their APUs a little longer.....

After carefully evaluating both scenarios, it looks like either way, you lose. Therefore, I'd rather take my chances with doing what Delta asks (as far as fuel savings, etc.) over the alternative. Oh, and this is coming from someone that's out of a job in January.

 

Has anyone else noticed this?

When you throw your 100% Completion pin into a fire and then pull it out, strange words suddenly appear...

It says "One Soaper to rule them all"

 

I don't know about you guys but for once i'm glad its not negative news. The first semi-positive announcement in 6 months or more (not really a plus considering we have people on the street but i was for sure the memo from delta meant more cuts.)

 

It must be because of our 100% Completion day today.

 

After talking with the new guy one on one, I actually believe him. So now the question is which DCI carrier is gonna get hit with these reductions? I think they'll be coming after ASA and Skywest this time.

 

How long until JetJock shows up to say that SKW has an iron-clad contract with Delta and it would cost Delta hundreds of millions to even think of changing the deal?

Reminds me of Episode V when Boba Fett watches Lando get scrood by Vader again and again, and Fett saying to himself "Good thing I had Lord Vader put our deal in writing..."

 

I have been hearing that Delta is willing to forgo receiving their last payment for ASA's sale in order to decrase capacity at SkyWest and ASA and allows them to get rid of a lot of the 50 seaters that are owned by Delta.
There will be lots of details about where things are heading, that will be coming out on the 9th from the Delta Shareholders meeting.

 

Other than Freedom finally going away or maybe cutting ASA out of ATL (in spite of the "contract"), I'm not so sure Delta will be going after a DCI carrier. The memo simply states "domestic capacity" and with Delta and Northwest finally one carrier, there is a lot of capacity that can be cut, even at the mainline level. I realize Delta has made it known that they no longer value 50-seat aircraft, but maybe that has moved to the backburner in favor of other routes/aircraft that are bleeding cash with this latest update.

Then again, it's quite possible Delta is not disclosing every detail of this latest cut, to keep a somewhat steady operation going at Comair through the holiday season.

 

Just listened to that memo. Sounds like the new president is trying to send out a thank you during his first address to his employees while also trying to keep people from jumping ship. Kind of expected this though. He wouldn't come out during his first message and tell everyone that he doesn't see good things for us on the horizon. Talked to RP the other day in regards to the memo that was put out about staffing. He didn't really say when we would settle to the magic number, but he said it was around 1054 pilots. 390 CRJ CAs, 365 CRJ FOs, 153 CR7 CAs and 146 CR7 FOs. That is the total number of pilots on the seniority list including anyone on leave. I see this economy getting worse before it gets any better, so the real question is if 6 year FOs and 10 Year CAs feel like being the bottom of the barrel for the next year or so until the world catches it's breathe.

 

Yeah, that's what I meant. I remember when ACA started flying the 328's in there, I knew things were going to go downhill.