I predicted before I got furloughed that Comair would become like Air Whiskey. Just a small northeast carrier. I think it's getting closer and closer to that.

 

This might be an odd request, but this is for WIA purposes...

Does anyone have any Memos or Emails (company or union) where it says that they are no expecting any recalls in the near future. I know there have been Memos on Epic that stated that and it was also mentioned on conference calls. They recently cleaned up the Epic pages and all the memos are gone. If you have anything, please let me know.

 

Ya but at least AirWhiskey is recalling

 

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True, but they have about 700, we have about 1,100 active or so. They are going to have to furlough another few hundred, close CVG, and get some sort of stability, i.e. no growth, but no loss of flying either, before I consider my predictions true. Then they will just recall for attrition. Maybe even open a few more small bases in the Northeast to take the load off of JFK. BOS, LGA, and DCA? Maybe. Doubt it will happen like that or anytime soon, but there ya go. At the very least I think they will stabilize significantly below 1,000 pilots before they will be able to turn around. What happened to Mesaba and/or Air Wisconsin, a few years ago, are good examples of what will likely happen.

 

Ah, but your living in a post-merger world now. All the Comair ground people will not be Comair anymore (RHS) and then they will furlough more aircrews and get it down to an easier to manage number of employees. When this happens, it will be merged with Mesaba and be called something stupid like "AirAlliance" This will be an easier to manage wholly owned subsiderary of Delta.
Oh, by the way....
RHS?
Real Horse S*#t (in case you did not know what it stood for)

 

all of you old guys that keep talking crap.... leave. I would kill to be in JFK flying again just to have a job. I actually had the pleasure of hearing a FO say when I was in CVG this weekend say, "I wish I was furloughed so I can be at my other job."

All of you that feel this way can kiss my @$$. To all of you complaining about commuting or moving to JFK, you signed up for this job and knew that was a possibility of getting tranferred so dont moan and groan. You have a job. Granted I have been resourceful enough to use my time on furlough to use WIA funding to get my ATP and a Citation type, but I would kill to be at Comair and have a job.

The grass is always greener you asses. Be thankful for the job you have. And if you aren't... do all us furloughed guys a favor and leave so we can make Comair a better place to work since we appreciate the job we have.

 

4 FO's left in JFK today! All of them can't be touched until after noon. a6 a7 and the 2 late ready reserves.

They do have like 6 guys that are taggable getting back in the afternoon but still. I thought this month was gonna be bad and the last 3 days everyone is getting used.

 

If any of you guys are furloughed and live in Texas, give me a PM. A friend and myself are working with a state employee trying to get funding from WIA for a type rating. Supposedly they have not provided any money for anyone in an aviation field for the past 5 or 6 years and if we can get some more on board we might be able to get that changed.

 

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