Mesaba getting Comair 700's? and CVG closing? heard it on Facebook...via a Mesaba employee's status message its a long stretch, but interesting...


RUMOR:

"Mesaba FA's are supposedly being trained on differences for the CRJ-700"
"Mesaba will be operating CRJ-700's which are currently being flown by ASA & Comair."
"CVG will be closed as a base and Comair will see major reductions in flying and will then be liquidated"

I have supplied all information that I have heard, my source is not very reliable,but I thought it deserved being placed on the board for discussion at least.


-Furloughed from Comair-

 

wow flight attendants and facebook, sounds like a winner!

i think cvg closing has been coming for a while. and as far as comair our mec has told us they are losing several thousand hours this fall. I dont know how they know but our alpa reps told us that on our message board. Our company actually said in one of our updates that they are announcing more furloughs. funny how i haven't heard that stuff on here, but our management and mec seem to know so much. either that or if they scare us enough will will vote in whatever they throw at us. but thats another converstation.

any way i doubt mesaba will be getting any planes from comair or anyone else for that matter. delta owns mesaba and has made it clear the path they will be taking in the immediate future.

When times are tough delta will beat down their owned airlines because they can. They cant beat the contract carriers to much due to contracts. When times are good however they build up their airlines. They dont build up contract guys.

 

Are you trying to say Mesaba will get ASA 700's?

 

Hmmmm, I think I'll pass on the inflight rumors from facebook! 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.

 

There is a lot coming in regards to DCI. I also believe that with 41 mainline flights a day, CVG can and will be covered by other bases. I also see that as the reason they put Mesa in CVG.

More to come on this.

 

That doesn't sound good either!

 

No it doesn't and there is more to come. I am not sure about EV giving up the 700's unless they are going to get all of the 900's the OH flies or another carriers.
Fact is that there is going to be a lot of blood letting at the DCI level. The DCI block hrs for the fall came out a few weeks ago, and it was ugly.

 

Any idea when we'll see some more info concerning this whole mess? Reliable info that is, I follow your posts on the major thread as well. It seems that you have access to some inside info that you can't always leak out. Just wondering if you might have a time line?

 

Are the Airlinkers included in those DCI hours?

 

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.