Pinnacle Annoucement Soon
#11
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My own personal theory is that Pinnacle is next in the musical chairs; 50 seat pull down edition. ASA (ATRs, 50s), Chautauqua (135s), Comair (50s, 900s and I think some 70s) and Freedom (900s and hopefully everything else) have all lost physical seats. Mesaba seemed to be gaining all sorts of stuff but that's been reassigned. That leaves Pinnacle to take a little dose of 50 seat reductions. I believed ASA was going to be the next hard core whipping boy (ala Comair) but the 900s changed that. Who knows, like I said, just my theory.
#13
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as far as buyouts and early outs that is possible, however unlikely. in december they put out a memo to see how many people would like some time off with a leave of absence to off set the displacement. well 2 weeks into it they had a ton of people who had turned in the papers wanting 30+days off. well the very next week the company sent out a memo saying they had decided not to go that route.
that is why lots of us here think the displacement is smoke and mirrors. they had more than enough captains volunteer for an loa and they decided against it. we were technically frozen by the national mediation board and were not supposed to be unfrozen till the end of april. well at the end of december the nmb got together and we will be meeting with them and the company for 5 days straight starting on the 26th. most of the pilots i know feel that if the nmb doesn't get something out of it during those 5 days that we will be released. still a little time away, but i believe things are coming to a head here real quick.
Last edited by Airsupport; 01-14-2009 at 11:58 AM.
#16
How is Mesaba going to GIVE BACK 17 200s when we only had 15 transferred to begin with? That rumor is tired and old. Isn't there anything better to talk about over at PCL?
#17
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Position: I AM NOT A KAPTAIN, i keep the right seat, nice and toasty
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CRJ-200s are making money right now.
You guys are buying into managements scheme of outsourcing mainline jobs to regional pukes like us.
You guys are buying into managements scheme of outsourcing mainline jobs to regional pukes like us.
#19
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Or maybe the announcement is the Pinnacle will have a TA soon.
#20
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now this is something i could buy into. pinnacle is officially moving all of the colgan stuff from VA to memphis. colgan just voted in alpa. we could easily file for single carrier status and it would probably win with no hitches. if they would have left the headquarters in va then maybe they could have kept us seperate.
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