What is our current fleet guarantee?

When it expires, what will that do to Comair?

Airline Quality Rating 2010
Comair (OH) On-time performance dropped slightly from 69.9% in 2008 to 69.0% in 2009. Comair’s denied boarding performance improved from 3.41 in 2008 to 2.63 per 10,000 passengers in 2009. A drop in the rate of customer complaints to 1.03 complaints per 100,000 passengers in 2009 from 1.26 in 2008 was near the industry average of 0.97 for 2009. Their mishandled baggage rate of 6.04 per 1,000 passengers in 2009 is higher than the industry rate of 3.88 but better than their 2008 rate of 8.32. Overall, Comair had the third worst AQR score (-2.22) of the eighteen airlines rated.

http://downloads.aqr.aero/reports/2010aqr.pdf

I got a questions are the 12 new recalls to fill the remaining 5 spot of the original 22 or they will be adding 12 more new spot?

They'll send out 12 more recall letters to the next guys on the list and probably take whoever accepts.

Hey Diver Driver. It says you are a Q200 new hire. I'm guessing CommutAir? I hope you researched their pay and contract. If you think Comair was bad...

The guarantee says Delta can not strip us of more than 3 of our 15 70s until January 1, 2011. If any are damaged beyond economical repair Delta can scrap them.

Delta can take or park 10% of the 50s we had at the time, and in addition can park any 50s according to a "lease return schedule" to be named later.

I say "to be named later" because, to the best of my knowledge, nobody at ALPA had access to this lease return schedule prior to the TA vote. I asked at road shows and got blank stares and shrugs - ALPA leadership at its finest.

I made a mistake in the earlier post - the fleet guarantee apparently expires on January 1, 2011. The pilot contract is amendable March 1, 2011, so Delta has two full months to pull those aircraft and not be in violation of "status quo" when negotiations begin.

On a totally unrelated topic, how long is Delta taking to eliminate the CVG840? About two months, right?

Hell if you think Mesa was bad. Let's face it Commutair's pay is downright awful but so was Lynx, and I would go back there in a heartbeat. They didn't treat me like the abused mutt Comair did.

Besides, go easy on him, He's been flying a washing machine the last year and he's taken every opportunity he's gotten for a ride in an airplane just to stay current. You know what that does to someone!? It makes anything with wings and a paycheck look good.

How's the new gig?

LOL, it's not an airline job for sure! It's very different. I'm home, weekends and holidays off, great hours actually. Lots of time during the day to... do stuff. I work about 5pm to midnight, two to three legs and I'm done. It's fun, but it is solid IFR with basic, basic, equipment. All the airplanes out here do have boots and DME though which is nice. One even has radar but I haven't gotten the chance to use it yet though so I don't even know if it works.

What you are describing is the job that pilots SHOULD have before ever being allowed in a jet full of people. Night cargo, hard IFR, single pilot is what learning to fly is all about.