I got a wild idea. What if someone email DS. Like start out wishing him good luck, then add a couple of ego boosting words, then ask him why he's leaving, and what the future hold for us. Just a wag.

 

Yeah, like his buyout wouldn't be predicated on a strict non-disclosure agreement. In addition, I'm sure he's just dying to tell a member of the pilot group, which he has always been so tight with, anything other than "!$%#&!@"

 

Regional carrier Comair shed nearly 2,800 jobs over the past year as the company whittled down flights and operations and spun off its customer service unit.

That’s a 53 percent decline from June 2009 when the company had about 5,300 full-time equivalent jobs, according to the latest figures from the Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Service.

The drop represents the biggest decline in employment among all regional carriers tracked by the BTS in its monthly passenger airline employment data report. Since 2006, Comair’s employment is down 60 percent from a high of 6,210.

Comair is based at the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport, where its parent Delta Air Lines Inc. (NYSE: DAL) has been steadily cutting flights. Delta and its carriers now have about 170 daily flights departing from Cincinnati, down from about 250 in 2009.

A Comair spokeswoman said the carrier had about 3,300 employees at the Cincinnati airport last summer. That was before its customer services team was spun off to form Regional Elite Airline Services. Today, Comair employs about 1,800 locally.

On the flip side, Comair’s parent Delta reported a big jump in year-over-year employment. The Atlanta-based carrier reported 68 percent more employees, growing to 75,600 FTE workers from a staff of 45,600 in 2009. Those figures reflect the merger of Delta and Northwest Airlines.

Overall, U.S. passenger airlines employed 2.4 percent fewer workers in June 2010 than in June 2009, representing the 24th consecutive decrease in FTE levels for carriers from the same month of the previous year.



Read more: Comair employment down 53% from a year ago - Business Courier of Cincinnati

 

Wife just came back from National Board travelers association, global organzation comprised of global financial and consultant firms. Delta was represented by a major player and advised specifically that comair does not produce the income to debt ratio and decision has been made to offset this cost to delta. Just relaying what was said.
As for the comment on Wings, I personally have seen the wings as well as worn by an FO in GSO last week. The overall sense is that comair will no longer be affiliated with Delta.

 

The writing is on the wall and the fat lady is about to sing.

 

ya but whats the tune?

 

F Minor...

 

I remember when comair was the envy of the regional world.

 

Life goes on

 

sad isnt it....?