Big Foot

OK good looks like an HR mistake not the company screwing with us. Thanks for looking. Can't blame them they only have like 2 people in HR trying to do the job of 100.

andy171773

I'd call the union right away on that one, were you a VERY junior 1/19 furlough?

Big Foot

Right smack in the middle of the group

makersmarc

so.....who will shut the doors first, Comair or Mesa?

sailingfun

How any regional fares under the Delta system will depend on performance. Delta has stated over and over again that regionals that fail to perform will not see growth and contracts will be terminated if possible. If you look at operational statistics they are sticking with this. The one airline that has performed very well has seen nice growth. The others have not been so lucky.

andy171773

WRONG

Airlines that Delta likes takes precedence. Comair had the best performance year of it's history in 2008, and things are worse than ever.

Lowlevel

Yeah! What you said!
Comair had the best year in it's history, with more 100% completion days ever...and things are looking worse by the minute

sailingfun

2008 just ended. You site one statistic. The changes you speak of would have been based on 07 and earlier data. Here is a summary of 07 for comair.

""Comair (oh) Ontime performance dropped from 73.8% in 2006 to 67.9% in 2007. Comair denied boarding performance worsed from 2.47 in 2006 to 3.17 per 10,000 passengers in 2007. An increase in the rate of customer complaints to 1.44 per 100,000 passengers in 2007 from .63 in 2006 was near the industry average of 1.42 for 2007. The mishandled baggage rate of 11.40 per 1,000 passengers in 2007 is higher then the industry average rate of 7.01 bags per 1,000 passengers but better then their 2006 of 11.98. Overall, Comair had the third worst AQR score (-3.78) of the sixteen airlines rated.""

From the reported statistics on key areas it does not look like Comair overall will have improved this performance much in 08. I suspect the overall ranking will be about the same.

Boomer

Do you think the "Freedom" 900s were awarded to Freedom based on performance, then awarded to Comair based on performance, then awarded to Pinnacle based on performance, then awarded to Mesaba based on performance, then awarded to ASA based on performance?

How does Delta change their mind 4 times in six months if performance is the primary criteria they're using?

In my opinion, performance is further down the list when Delta starts playing favorites with their DCI menu.

ExperimentalAB

DAL is only looking for the best deal...BH at ASA gave it to them with the trade-off of those "inefficient" 50's in a 2-for-1. It's really that simple.