Nobody really knows if this is good/bad for Comair. This whole CPZ/XJ being sold off came out of nowhere, but I'm sure it has been in the works for quite some time, and I bet Bendo didn't even know about it.

I was hoping that DL will start bringing the DCI flying in-house (wholly owned), but after today's announcement, I lost all confidence and feel uneasy about Comair's future, especially after reading Bendo's Memo. Things can happen very, very fast in this industry, and all we can do is keep on truckin' and do our jobs. You will drive yourself insane if you play the "What if..." game...

 

We got Freedom flying... Mesaba and Compass didn't.... keep that in mind...

Not saying that the above fact has ANYTHING to do with today... but with the positive rumors from CVG and the extra flying we're getting I stick by my belief that the furlough list will be exhausted by the end of the year...

 

+1

If anyone has a crystal ball this would be the time to use it. FML

 

Hopefully Daddy D tells Comair the plan so nobody quits a job to go back just to get furloughed in 2 months.

 

Hey bubba what have you been hearing?

 

My initial thought is this is a bad thing for Comair. Here's why...

Every former and currently furloughed pilot at Comair found themselves in that position because Delta had airline service agreements in place with non-wholly owned regional "partners"...contracts that very likely specified minimum utilization guarantees for every airline under contract with Delta.

After Delta exited bankruptcy (entered during a time of economic growth, b.t.w.), there was only one wholly owned regional carrier under Delta's direct control...Comair. ASA had been sold to Skywest by this time.

When the need to cut capacity in regional lift struck, initially Delta only had Comair to target. Those 900's that were promised to just about every carrier operating under the DCI brand...the reason Comair went on a hiring binge in 2007 - just to furlough three months later...ultimately went to Skywest/ASA simply because they offered to give Delta some relief on the 50-seat side of their contract in exchange for those airframes.

For a short time, Delta owned three regionals...Comair, Mesaba, and Compass. This took some pressure off Comair, which for a while served as basically the reserve airline for the entire DCI system.

With the sale of Mesaba and Compass, Comair becomes the sole "rubber band" in the DCI network again, and unless things improve in the overall economy, Comair will likely find itself expanding and contracting on a regular basis for the forseeable future.

I know you didn't ask for a story SPJ, but it's tough to just state good or bad without a little rationale to support that position...this is the internet after all.

 

I'm sure you can expect your ALPA merger assessment to be promptly mailed to your address of record.

 

I of course understand it is a complex situation with a complex answer... Thanks for at least giving a short answer in the first line or two...

Correction for you though... hiring binge was 08.

 

If Comair is already written off, then Delta could sell Comair for fifty bucks, the Dick Anderson can claim it all as profit, and then give himself a four million dollar bonus for a job well done.

 

Irrelevant has been around too long to remember those little details.

Each aaswhuppin' tends to blend into the next...