more accurate than Flightinfo

 

Reminds me of the rumor that Republic was buying PDT...that lasted a good week and a half. 2 rules for aviation: don't follow the price of oil, and don't listen to rumors!

 

i heard a rumor that Cape Air is buying Continental Micronesia ops!!!!

 

I just spoke to one of our Compass FA's that said our company is going to begin cloning pilots in an attempt to save money on flight crews in the future. Is this true? Please do not kill the sender, "a flight attendant told me" and apparently I did not apply any common sense... so here I am.

Ok, in all seriousness, the majority of my buddies over at RAH have plenty of common sense so is this just an isolated case from one pilot? Maybe this person is from the media with plenty of time on their hands? Wolf Blizter is that you?

 

No. They were considering it however after seeing the much shorter lifespan of clones they realized the training costs would be much higher.

 

Fortuneately, for us, managements understanding of clones must not extend beyond a screening of "Blade Runner"

 

Reminds me of walking down to a flight in MCO (flying the ERJ for Delta Connection) when a Comair gate agent stopped me in the hallway and insisted the Comair Ops Supervisor had just been told by his manager that Republic had bought Comair and would be announcing it the next morning.

Like others have said...until you see the press release...

 

Forget all the hype about stapling Compass. It's a two way pipe dream to give Compass Pilots a Delta seniority number and mainline getting a "little " scope back. Too many look at the situation through their own rose colored glasses - not how management looks at it.

How does Delta gain the most ?

A significant Delta furlough down to Compass is unmanageable. Compass has about 332 pilots; Delta has about 12,000. If they were to furlough 10% it would displace the majority of Compass pilots (sunk training costs) and still have another 800 Delta pilots looking for employment. The training workload and associated costs would be unacceptable - especially if there were a recall with improving economy and / or purchase of new aircraft. Compass is a good “cash cow” if Delta has need of $$$$ to purchase new aircraft. Compass routes could easily be picked up by Mesaba, Pinnacle and ASA. (From a 1/02/09 Post)

The economy is bad but there are always buyers out there if the price is right. Attempts to leverage stapling may speed up the selling efforts

 

If Compass is sold the flow up/down (NWA LOAs 2006-10 & 14) still apply: DAL would still be paying training costs. Simply selling Compass does not relieve the company of it's obligations. If the flow is terminated, other companies can't just "fill in the gaps" because it would reduce the # of large regional jets allowed at DCI by 35.

Also, if DAL furloughed 10%, it would require the company to reconfigure every single 71-76 seat regional jet back to 70 seats. Getting rid of the Compass flow and associated penalties is just a pipe dream for DAL management, but selling it would generate quite a bit of cash.

 

No, just the 25 or however many they have that are over the original cap. Not all of them.