Comair updates?
02-07-2011 | 06:51 AM
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Hey guys, something I noticed today in the March bid.
According to the Pilot count we have exactly 1000 in the roster. Supposedly we only lost 13 in Feb. That total remaining include 50 & 70/90. My believe is out that total, about 620 (+/-) are DTW based.
The hours for DTW are a tad over 10k for March (1K more that Feb). So my question is, how do they expect to cover all that flying since we were barely able the cover Feb with less hours and more pilots?. Yes they are moving people from CVG, but we are still losing more people between now and end of March. I'm a bit perplexed byt this.
Anyone with a good theory, I'd like to hear it.
Y'all be good.
According to the Pilot count we have exactly 1000 in the roster. Supposedly we only lost 13 in Feb. That total remaining include 50 & 70/90. My believe is out that total, about 620 (+/-) are DTW based.
The hours for DTW are a tad over 10k for March (1K more that Feb). So my question is, how do they expect to cover all that flying since we were barely able the cover Feb with less hours and more pilots?. Yes they are moving people from CVG, but we are still losing more people between now and end of March. I'm a bit perplexed byt this.
Anyone with a good theory, I'd like to hear it.
Y'all be good.
02-07-2011 | 07:18 AM
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From: B76ER
Hey guys, something I noticed today in the March bid.
According to the Pilot count we have exactly 1000 in the roster. Supposedly we only lost 13 in Feb. That total remaining include 50 & 70/90. My believe is out that total, about 620 (+/-) are DTW based.
The hours for DTW are a tad over 10k for March (1K more that Feb). So my question is, how do they expect to cover all that flying since we were barely able the cover Feb with less hours and more pilots?. Yes they are moving people from CVG, but we are still losing more people between now and end of March. I'm a bit perplexed byt this.
Anyone with a good theory, I'd like to hear it.
Y'all be good.
According to the Pilot count we have exactly 1000 in the roster. Supposedly we only lost 13 in Feb. That total remaining include 50 & 70/90. My believe is out that total, about 620 (+/-) are DTW based.
The hours for DTW are a tad over 10k for March (1K more that Feb). So my question is, how do they expect to cover all that flying since we were barely able the cover Feb with less hours and more pilots?. Yes they are moving people from CVG, but we are still losing more people between now and end of March. I'm a bit perplexed byt this.
Anyone with a good theory, I'd like to hear it.
Y'all be good.
02-08-2011 | 09:23 AM
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From: MD-80 FO
1000 people left on the active seniority list?
How many people would you guess paid the merger fund assesment?
1500?
It goes without saying that ALPA national isn't much help in most pilots eyes, but I am amazed how much local Comair ALPA sucks.
Has anyone heard anything from these guys? Last I heard they were still pipe dreaming about merging with someone.
Why? Because obsorbing hundreds of 20 year captains is way more cost effective than just buying the airplanes from Comair and hiring off the street at 1st year pay?
How many people would you guess paid the merger fund assesment?
1500?
It goes without saying that ALPA national isn't much help in most pilots eyes, but I am amazed how much local Comair ALPA sucks.
Has anyone heard anything from these guys? Last I heard they were still pipe dreaming about merging with someone.
Why? Because obsorbing hundreds of 20 year captains is way more cost effective than just buying the airplanes from Comair and hiring off the street at 1st year pay?
02-08-2011 | 09:27 AM
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1000 people left on the active seniority list?
How many people would you guess paid the merger fund assesment?
1500?
It goes without saying that ALPA national isn't much help in most pilots eyes, but I am amazed how much local Comair ALPA sucks.
Has anyone heard anything from these guys? Last I heard they were still pipe dreaming about merging with someone.
Why? Because obsorbing hundreds of 20 year captains is way more cost effective than just buying the airplanes from Comair and hiring off the street at 1st year pay?
How many people would you guess paid the merger fund assesment?
1500?
It goes without saying that ALPA national isn't much help in most pilots eyes, but I am amazed how much local Comair ALPA sucks.
Has anyone heard anything from these guys? Last I heard they were still pipe dreaming about merging with someone.
Why? Because obsorbing hundreds of 20 year captains is way more cost effective than just buying the airplanes from Comair and hiring off the street at 1st year pay?
02-08-2011 | 09:37 AM
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1000 people left on the active seniority list?
How many people would you guess paid the merger fund assesment?
1500?
It goes without saying that ALPA national isn't much help in most pilots eyes, but I am amazed how much local Comair ALPA sucks.
Has anyone heard anything from these guys? Last I heard they were still pipe dreaming about merging with someone.
Why? Because obsorbing hundreds of 20 year captains is way more cost effective than just buying the airplanes from Comair and hiring off the street at 1st year pay?
How many people would you guess paid the merger fund assesment?
1500?
It goes without saying that ALPA national isn't much help in most pilots eyes, but I am amazed how much local Comair ALPA sucks.
Has anyone heard anything from these guys? Last I heard they were still pipe dreaming about merging with someone.
Why? Because obsorbing hundreds of 20 year captains is way more cost effective than just buying the airplanes from Comair and hiring off the street at 1st year pay?
02-08-2011 | 11:33 AM
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1000 people left on the active seniority list?
How many people would you guess paid the merger fund assesment?
1500?
It goes without saying that ALPA national isn't much help in most pilots eyes, but I am amazed how much local Comair ALPA sucks.
Has anyone heard anything from these guys? Last I heard they were still pipe dreaming about merging with someone.
Why? Because obsorbing hundreds of 20 year captains is way more cost effective than just buying the airplanes from Comair and hiring off the street at 1st year pay?
How many people would you guess paid the merger fund assesment?
1500?
It goes without saying that ALPA national isn't much help in most pilots eyes, but I am amazed how much local Comair ALPA sucks.
Has anyone heard anything from these guys? Last I heard they were still pipe dreaming about merging with someone.
Why? Because obsorbing hundreds of 20 year captains is way more cost effective than just buying the airplanes from Comair and hiring off the street at 1st year pay?
I wouldn't exactly advertise being a part of the Comair MEC or LEC if I were job hunting. Not only did they manager to anger the hand that feeds (Delta) they came after their own.
02-08-2011 | 12:04 PM
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Comair Alpa sucks? Now that's not true. They have done an excellent job at screwing everyone on the last half of the seniority list, and as a final kicker screwed many many involuntary furloughees out of their travel benefits.
I wouldn't exactly advertise being a part of the Comair MEC or LEC if I were job hunting. Not only did they manager to anger the hand that feeds (Delta) they came after their own.
I wouldn't exactly advertise being a part of the Comair MEC or LEC if I were job hunting. Not only did they manager to anger the hand that feeds (Delta) they came after their own.
Also, I have really felt the love and appreciation with the emails stating something like: "Don't forget, we have XXX furloughed brothers. If you have any yardwork, sewage cleanup, need a guinea pig for a non-FDA approved drug trial or even just a crash test dummy - let us know so we can pass the word along."
02-08-2011 | 02:04 PM
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02-10-2011 | 09:20 AM
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Not flamebait, but how were the invols screwed by ALPA out of their travel benefits?
02-10-2011 | 11:04 AM
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That is what I was advised as to how it went down. If accurate then I'll go out on a limb and say......one takes what he can get when in the weaker position, which clearly the union was. But in the usual fashion, the parties negotiating were unaffected by the results and walked away with nothing but inflated egos. They really showed the managers didn't they?
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