Pinnacle Contract Terminated by Delta in ATL
#81
DAL management most likely knows what they are doing, with both freedom and pinnacle. I'm pretty certain that the statistics they are using are accurate, although as someone pointed out they may be using weak contract language to punish 9E for performance issues outside of their control. This is not nice, or particulary "fair" but it is legal.
It is entirely possible that DAL has thrown out the poor stats which could be blamed on them, and are basing their decision solely on performance which is directly attributable to mesa/pinnacle. My gut feeling is that mesa would have screwed themselves regardless of what DAL did, or did not, do.
Also, DAL might be basing the decision on numbers from several months ago, or longer. The contract probably says that if you fail to perform, you can get fired. There is probably nothing that says they can't wait for an extended period and THEN fire you for something that happened last year...effectively, if you screw up one single time then you are an "at will" subcontractor for the remainder of that contract. DAL can always pull that out of their hip pocket at any time...in fact, they LIKE it that way. The fact that you have improved since the original failure means nothing.
DAL was probably in a position to strongarm pinnacle into signing a weak contract, so they might not have had a choice (or they might just be stupid).
More than most other majors, DAL seems to have their poop in one sock. If they canx MY contract, I would be concerned. Yes, anybody is at risk right now.
The good news for 9E is that those 900's are more in demand than most RJ's.
It is entirely possible that DAL has thrown out the poor stats which could be blamed on them, and are basing their decision solely on performance which is directly attributable to mesa/pinnacle. My gut feeling is that mesa would have screwed themselves regardless of what DAL did, or did not, do.
Also, DAL might be basing the decision on numbers from several months ago, or longer. The contract probably says that if you fail to perform, you can get fired. There is probably nothing that says they can't wait for an extended period and THEN fire you for something that happened last year...effectively, if you screw up one single time then you are an "at will" subcontractor for the remainder of that contract. DAL can always pull that out of their hip pocket at any time...in fact, they LIKE it that way. The fact that you have improved since the original failure means nothing.
DAL was probably in a position to strongarm pinnacle into signing a weak contract, so they might not have had a choice (or they might just be stupid).
More than most other majors, DAL seems to have their poop in one sock. If they canx MY contract, I would be concerned. Yes, anybody is at risk right now.
The good news for 9E is that those 900's are more in demand than most RJ's.
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Mesa and Pinnacle WERE meeting the terms of their contracts... You can't blame Mesa or Pinnacle for cancellations when you pro-actively cancel their flights in order to get mainline out. In the case with Pinnacle, they were also making them fly to St. Croix which required deadheading a double crew to fly the plane back, as well as the fact that Pinnacle planes aren't overwater certified - the indirect routings often caused fuel diversions.
But who knows, maybe DAL started laying the foundation for this cancellation attempt many months ago by assisting in 9E poor performance. I’m sure that once your lawyers start researching others performance vs. the number of DAL cancellations vs. the cancellation reasons; it should result in an easy argument on 9E behalf. I’m not confident that it will result in you guys retaining the flying but it should result in a pretty large settlement.
Best of luck guys.
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Sorry to hear about this... This is not good for anyone. however little job security you thought you had.... right out the window. Best of luck... what happened with the arbitrator? did he change his ruling?
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But who knows, maybe DAL started laying the foundation for this cancellation attempt many months ago by assisting in 9E poor performance. I’m sure that once your lawyers start researching others performance vs. the number of DAL cancellations vs. the cancellation reasons; it should result in an easy argument on 9E behalf.
we just had a captain post part of his atl flying schedule on our pilot bored.
delta had him scheduled to do a TLH turn out of ATL. and guess how much flight time they gave him to get to tlh...
13 minutes!!!
GMAFB. they scheduled that flight to show 13 minutes of flight time. no wonder we couldn't get in and out on time. they think we are flying supersonic. then as soon as they fix our schdules the numbers go up and they try and cancel the contract.
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#88
As for ATL terminal configuration, there is no terminal 1 or terminal 4. In order there's: T, A, B, C, D and E. So I assume you’re talking about some other airport and then you must be taking about 9E’s NWA contract and not DAL’s.
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we just had a captain post part of his atl flying schedule on our pilot bored.
delta had him scheduled to do a TLH turn out of ATL. and guess how much flight time they gave him to get to tlh...
13 minutes!!!
GMAFB. they scheduled that flight to show 13 minutes of flight time. no wonder we cant get in and out on time. the think we are flying supersonic.
delta had him scheduled to do a TLH turn out of ATL. and guess how much flight time they gave him to get to tlh...
13 minutes!!!
GMAFB. they scheduled that flight to show 13 minutes of flight time. no wonder we cant get in and out on time. the think we are flying supersonic.
I just don't understand why they've chosen to target you guys. That’s BS.
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I'm sorry I forgot I had to be perfectly specific on this forum and have all terminals exactly right
Take it easy, I was just making a point that sometimes it is DAL's fault...in my own generic way
Take it easy, I was just making a point that sometimes it is DAL's fault...in my own generic way
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