Momma Delta is at it again!
08-13-2012 | 01:01 PM
#31
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Hopefully this trend will continue along all areas of DCI and is the beginning of the end of outsourcing. The more jobs that are brought back to DAL and DGS the better. In the long run it will create more mainline jobs for the DCI folks to migrate too....which is better for everyone concerned. You can't make an omlette without breaking a few eggs. DAL is in the beginning stages of a several year process to re-create itself. Imagine the cost savings if we didn't have 8 or 9 Regionals, Managements, Infrastructure, Maintenance...ect. The DAL pilot group could easily be 24,000....and even on reserve as a plug on the smallest equipment....it'd be a better job than any RJ Captain at xyz regional. Been there, done that and don't ever want to go back. I want everyone at mainline. The
sooner the better.
sooner the better.
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08-13-2012 | 01:38 PM
#32
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I think a lot of DL pilots think their new contact, comair, 9E, and Regional Elite are some kind of grand altruistic scheme to in-source jobs and have a higher quality product (ala Southwest.)
Sadly this isn't true. The vast majority of RE stations will be turned over to 3rd party companies with employees would don't care about your customers anymore than it requires for them to keep their meager job. The CRJ200's would be going away contract or not, and they continue to source large RJ flying to the most low-quality, cheap lift they can find.
Sadly this isn't true. The vast majority of RE stations will be turned over to 3rd party companies with employees would don't care about your customers anymore than it requires for them to keep their meager job. The CRJ200's would be going away contract or not, and they continue to source large RJ flying to the most low-quality, cheap lift they can find.
08-13-2012 | 03:16 PM
#33
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I think a lot of DL pilots think their new contact, comair, 9E, and Regional Elite are some kind of grand altruistic scheme to in-source jobs and have a higher quality product (ala Southwest.)
Sadly this isn't true. The vast majority of RE stations will be turned over to 3rd party companies with employees would don't care about your customers anymore than it requires for them to keep their meager job. The CRJ200's would be going away contract or not, and they continue to source large RJ flying to the most low-quality, cheap lift they can find.
Sadly this isn't true. The vast majority of RE stations will be turned over to 3rd party companies with employees would don't care about your customers anymore than it requires for them to keep their meager job. The CRJ200's would be going away contract or not, and they continue to source large RJ flying to the most low-quality, cheap lift they can find.
Ah, someone who *gets* the big picture.
I can't help but chuckle when I see all the young and naive believe the rhetoric about how this is "a good thing". DAL is getting a few more planes, that's about it as far as the regionals are concerned and future job opportunities. (Where are all those jobs, BTW? Anyone hear of massive hiring at DAL ANYTIME in the near future???)
They're also getting more inexperienced pilots at the cheap regionals (and he** they keep loweringthe bar in work rules, contract terms, etc.) and add insult to injury, cheap, cheap ground operations. One step forward, two steps back. This is really going to be quite some show in a year or so. DAL will have noone to blame but themselves.
08-14-2012 | 05:28 AM
#37
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You were talking about the top of the pay scale. They were talking about the longevity of captains making near or around the pay rate you were speaking of ($240 an hour). Then it was a little muddled. To be making that rate you'd have to be on the biggest equipment at the 12 year rate which you would have to be to hold the seat. To be on the biggest equipment at the 12 year rate you'd have to be near the top of the seniority list to hold the seat. Therefore at the company for a very long time. A little less muddled?
08-17-2012 | 08:36 PM
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08-18-2012 | 10:22 AM
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