Paok,

I'm sorry to hear about that response. Do you think a planning supervisor maybe able to help? Perhaps you can pick up some extra flying out of CVG or something. Just a thought.....Otherwise its time to go over memory items and limitations again.

 

Something is wrong when scheduling tells you that you HAVE to fly on your days off if you "want" your 100 hours. It's their responsibility to get you to your 100 hours, and in most cases, they should want to so they could pair you with whoever.

 

Does anyone know if we are still losing pilots as quickly as before? It seems that we have about 8-9 FO's from GSO come to JFK for October and another 12 will come in from MCO. Now I also notice that training said they were going to run 3 new hire classes per month. But is the shortage of pilots really that bad???

Just Curious.

 

Right now we are under-staffed with Captains and overstaffed with FO's. Seems to be only one solution to me...

 

Upgrade People!!!! More Of Them! Jesus!

 

From what i've heard from the Director of training, the attrition is still fairly high..with 24 confirmed new hires a month in oct, nov..and possibly more in december...hiring should continue at that pace through june.

That's just what's being told to our class..so who knows where that's gonna lead.

He also said that comair's loosing 10 airframes due to time limitations in the next 18 months..are they doing anything to replace these 50's..or are they just gonnd use the 14 or so 900's they got and restructure their routes a bit?

I did hear the routes for the 900 to JFK, Denver etcetc from CVG.

 

Thought you all might find this interesting:

http://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnat...7/daily12.html

Pasted from link:

The two airlines that do the most business at the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport have boosted their profit margins considerably over the last year, the U.S. Department of Transportation said.

The department's Bureau of Transportation Statistics on Monday released second-quarter financial numbers for 21 U.S. carriers. The average profit margin for all airlines was 8 percent, the highest since 2000, the bureau said in a news release.

Delta Air Lines and its subsidiary Comair followed the trend: Delta posted operating profit of $470 million for the quarter and its profit margin was 9.3 percent, compared to 8 percent in second-quarter 2006. Comair's operating income was $20 million and its profit margin jumped to 7 percent, compared to 2.1 percent in the year-ago quarter.

The airlines in total have had five consecutive profitable quarters, the bureau said in the release.

Atlanta-based Delta (NYSE: DAL) operates a hub at the local airport, where Comair bases its operations.



Five consecutive profitable quarters? The same time frame they used to convince the courts to throw out our contract and impose pay cuts because we weren't making any money??

 

makes you sick doesn't it

 

Let's keep in mind that we're not the accountants here. From what I've heard, the finances between Comair/Delta are a bit grey as it is all muddled together. Before the bankruptcy, it was commonly known that Comair was the most profitable part of delta, but alas we were still part of delta. Delta goes bankrupt, so does comair. Every employee in Comair took a pay cut, not just us pilots. The non-union employees were the first to get hit, a fact that many people have forgotten. They remain at their lower wage. When Delta went into bankruptcy, it needed to lower costs and increase revenue. Pay cuts, company wide, helped that cause. The fact that they profitable shows that the restructuring worked.

 

Don Bornhorst is that you??