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Old 10-30-2008, 06:44 PM
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Guys, this is true. I didn't hear the base in ATL but the rest I heard (some heard 12 others 15)from my sources too. Don't worry, it will be announced soon.
Good luck, unless Delta has modified ASA's agreement you will not be moving that many in. Remember, ASA takes 80% of all flying in ATL per their contract. Are we taking over some of your bases in exchange as to spread the DCI Carriers? This rumor seems like bs unless DAL is totally restructuring the system and changing contracts.
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Old 10-30-2008, 06:53 PM
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Guys, this is true. I didn't hear the base in ATL outside of the 3 Saabs but the 900's I heard ( 12 total, 5 new / 7 Freedom)from sources too. Don't worry, it will be announced soon.
lol your name says it all! hahahahaha
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Well, we all know something is up, so maybe there is truth and maybe not. We also know what DL did to OH, so Im going to just wait until its official.
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Old 10-30-2008, 07:29 PM
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Things to remember:

If you hear something from a pilot... its probably not true.

If you hear something in the schoolhouse... its almost definately not true.

At Pinnacle the Director of Standards (i think) FF came in (to the schoolhouse) and said we will definately be operating for Delta out of LAX and SLC. Now look at where we are in ATL...
Moral of the story... even higher ups at the regionals don't know shiot.
No one, espicially anyone who has the time to post on here knows what is happening... espicially if it came from the schoolhouse.
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Old 10-30-2008, 07:48 PM
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It says Mesaba is getting these birds on the quicktake.

This is unbelievable. All the low paid regionals are getting all this new flying and we at ASA are downgrading captains to FO. When the hella is ASA going to get some reward for going from crap to an ontime respectable airline. Does 80% of ATL DCI flying not mean a thing after a merger??

Losin my motivation to fly ontime pretty fast here.
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Old 10-30-2008, 07:51 PM
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Originally Posted by ebl14 View Post
Things to remember:

If you hear something from a pilot... its probably not true.

If you hear something in the schoolhouse... its almost definately not true.

At Pinnacle the Director of Standards (i think) FF came in (to the schoolhouse) and said we will definately be operating for Delta out of LAX and SLC. Now look at where we are in ATL...
Moral of the story... even higher ups at the regionals don't know shiot.
No one, espicially anyone who has the time to post on here knows what is happening... espicially if it came from the schoolhouse.
Best post in this thread. I don't mean to sound like a negative nancy, but Mesaba looks just like Comair did in May and June of this year. Gearing up for a big wave of something... and in the end... it was just a big wave of furloughs.
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Old 10-30-2008, 08:00 PM
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Originally Posted by Confused View Post
It says Mesaba is getting these birds on the quicktake.

This is unbelievable. All the low paid regionals are getting all this new flying and we at ASA are downgrading captains to FO. When the hella is ASA going to get some reward for going from crap to an ontime respectable airline. Does 80% of ATL DCI flying not mean a thing after a merger??

Losin my motivation to fly ontime pretty fast here.
ASA is expensive. We've priced ourselves out of the growth game. We'll stay exactly as we are due to contractual obligations but as far as significant growth, doubt it. Too many senior pilots, and we're the only DCI carrier that doesn't have PBS.

In this day and age money talks, as long as you have halfway decent performance. Mesa had such horrendous performance it wasn't worth the cheap price to Big D. Mesaba and Pinnacle bring excellent performance at a low cost. That's something ASA will have a very hard time beating.
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Old 10-30-2008, 08:06 PM
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Originally Posted by CRJDriver View Post
My source tells me that you can't spell. Common' dude, you are putting our school to shame

I think he hit the bottle a little too early...
Common' as in frequent or pervasive?

Did you perhaps mean c'mon? There are so many posts with misspelled words I am beginning to think that it is epidemic among pilots.
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Old 10-30-2008, 08:12 PM
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Yah most pilots on gouges and these posts cant spell anything correctly......... but it's ok because their brand new 900's from Delta have a spell check built into the ACARS so everything should be just fine.
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Old 10-30-2008, 08:14 PM
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I love how someone from your company already sent an update to airline pilot central so it would appear on the profile when there hasn't even been an official release. Whomever that was obvioulsy had to be the first one to say that they got more airplanes.
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