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for the month of August we (pinnacle, 9e, nwairlink, delta connection) lost 1100 hours compared to july. not nearly as bad as we thought, and not nearly as bad as our april hours. but then again half of august is still part of the summer schedule.

Where do you find out the block hours for each airline under DCI?

hmmm... If I remember right, ASA owns most if its 700's. MOST.

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Originally Posted by H46Bubba (Post 646968)

Hmmmm, I think I'll pass on the inflight rumors from facebook!:rolleyes: Yes Comair is losing some serious hours for the fall schedule. Managment has it going from 500+ hours down to a little over 400 hours. which is way lower than the 900+ hours we flew in 2008. Told to expect around 100 additional furloughs, but maybe the MEC and management can come up with some mitigation efforts.

I think you mean departures, not block hours. If I'm not mistaking, we fly about 25000 hours a month average, and the fall schedule is loosing about 6000 hours(i.e 20%).

According to Richard Anderson's Twitter page, CVG will be closing as a hub in November, Comair will continue to shrink until it is small enough to be merged with Mesaba/Compass. I read his Tweets all the time. Right now he is tweeting and laughing at all the suckers employed at DCI carriers.

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Originally Posted by USMC3197 (Post 647055)

hmmm... If I remember right, ASA owns most if its 700's. MOST.

Most of EV's jets are leased. EV is the one that is actually paying those leases, directly. Not DAL.

Do regional guys every want mainline jobs? Too many newb's got hard ons for more RJ's. Please think about your future.

Problem is that most cannot see past the need to get 500 hrs of 121 PIC to even be competitive for the majors. To get that you need a seat to do it in. To get that seat you need more RJ's. To get more RJ's you need the mainline to cave on scope. If they cave on scope you mainline job is farther away. Sounds like a hamster wheel to me.
Less than 10 years ago they were hiring guys with no jet time. Fact is they still did in 2007-08. DAL's take is if you have PIC turbine time, it does not necessarily need to be part 121.

The whole reason people have decided to make the regionals their career is the total relaxation of scope. These days you are looking at 15 years to a left seat of anything at a major. Now in 10 years that will be down to less than two years. Good for the junior FO's just starting at the regionals or the ones that are starting flight school. Not good for the ones that want to come to the majors and are in their 30's.
Just look at the retirements before you scream out loud that you want more RJ's. A little patience for the this instant gratification society. Because of the scope relaxation, I spend a decade at a regional. Not fun at all.

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Originally Posted by AirWillie (Post 647009)

What about Mesa? They only fly out of CVG for Delta. I don't buy it mainly because there is no reason to transfer flying to Mesaba.

Mesaba is considerably cheaper than Comair, especially if they were to expand Mesaba more and hire on more cheap labor...that is the reason I posted the rumor in the first place...plus i thought it would be interesting to discuss the DCI plague in general

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Originally Posted by Spoilers (Post 647065)

reliable as always! gave me a good laugh