Well I talked to the fat man myself at JFK. He doesn't think Comair can ramp up fast enough to recall furloughs and upgrade captains. He said the next batch of guys that come back have to do a complete class. Basically newhire training. It would be nice to regain some flying. But I doubt it will happen.

BTW I saw DS for the first time ever in my 3.5 years being at comair. It was like a bigfoot sighting.

 

This is so retarded.

No wait that's insulting retarded people.

I would rather have corky run this airline. Down syndrome and all.

 

I went 6 years and never saw him.

First time I actually saw him was last year. And much like Bigfoot, you kinda smell him first.

 

New hire class again, man..... that gets old, wonder if we have to take all the writtens "again".... no big deal... maybe they will get you an ATP out of it ??!!@@##$$%%^^ or not......

 

if they had any intellegence whatsoever they would recall EVERYONE tomorrow... dont compound their mistakes... ramp up as fast as they can or risk losing the company...

 

"to worried" means find worried and go towards it. I think you meant to say "too worried."

Now that you've shown your qualifications, it's not like you're telling us what a grenade is. We can find out what a grenade is, and if you've ever thrown one you'd know what the blast radius was. These are all verifiable using real-world sources.

What you're saying is more like "if a goblin and a troll had a fight the troll would win. I can't tell you how I know, but trust me because I know that I'm right" No evidence, no sources.

That's why everyone is asking where you came across your info. Everyone here knows Comair is circling the bowl, but you start throwing out dates and fleet numbers and Compass and AS(A) and all kinds of imaginary details.

If you really knew anything about Comair, you'd know that you need to change your story every couple weeks anyway.

 

it gets better though... they have to pay us at our pay rate and not at that horrible 240 a week... makes indoc a little more manageable...

 

Same as everyone else, I hear that DTW will open Sept. 1. Only the union guys seem to talk about the 70/90 going to NYC, management side don't think it'll happen.

Mesa decision only takes the heat off our 50s, not expected to mean any new flying for us.

Bendo has turned down flying, but the official explanation is that it was so temporary, we'd have to furlough any recalls within months of calling them back.

rumors are flying, but we should hear soon what's real and what isn't...

 

Well if that temporary flying turns into permanent flying who will probably keep doing it?

The one who stepped up and did it.

It's a risk I think they should take.

 

They've done it before. When I upgraded in Spring 2008, they hired 300 FOs in anticipation of getting some of Mesa's CRJ 900s. Soaper came into class and told us we'd all be lineholders by that Christmas. He was right - I was back in the right seat holding a line by Dec. 1st.

With that exception, Comair has almost always done the minimum required and usually waits too long to adjust staffing shortages. It's been years since I've had flying added in the middle of a trip, but it's happened twice in the last three weeks. I checked reserve staffing at 5 am to make sure there were no reserves who could cover it. That day, they had an A7 and an LC1 for JFK, and an LC2 in CVG. Every other reserve was out flying. I'm actually amazed they're not canceling more flights for lack of crews. I heard that on Derby weekend, they had 400 sick calls (for 1500 active crew members). Apparently the Derby and Halloween get the most sick calls, but it still set a record.