Pinnacle and Delta

[cuculain]

Pinnacle Will announce today a ten year contract to fly 16 CRJ900s for Delta. The plan is to recieve the first aircraft in November and begin flying in December.

 

[BoilerUP]

This effin rumor again?!?

 

[cuculain]

It is official oh ye of littie faith.

 

[goahead]

WOW another DCI partner, so much for streamlining it.

 

[SPDBRD747400]

It's true...

Great yet again no good news for ASA.

http://biz.yahoo.com/iw/070430/0245454.html

 

[XJWRENCH]

It is official oh ye of littie faith.

And 9E will get N901XJ for the cert process

 

[BoilerUP]

It's true...

Great yet again no good news for ASA.

http://biz.yahoo.com/iw/070430/0245454.html

So I guess losing those 200s to Mesaba won't get Pinnacle properly staffed after all, eh?

 

[BoilerUP]

What's the 900 CA/FO rate going to be?

 

[Sinca3]

And the hits just keep on coming............

 

[Dave Grohl]

Hey, now Pinnacle can join the Portfolio Party!!

 

[JoeMerchant]

Don't worry folks, ALPA is hard at work for "brand scope".... everything will be OK.... Keep sending those dues in.... DW needs to get his next pension check as we continue to play the "Portfolio Challenge Wheel of Misfortune"......

 

[FmrFreightDog]

Don't worry folks, ALPA is hard at work for "brand scope".... everything will be OK.... Keep sending those dues in.... DW needs to get his next pension check as we continue to play the "Portfolio Challenge Wheel of Misfortune"......

While I agree that ALPA bears a good bit of the blame for the current situation we all find ourselves in, let's not underestimate ASA management's role in all this. LaBreque and his crew have so criminally mismanaged this airline that nobody wants to do business with us. Aside from all the flying we have lost out on with Delta, we also lost out on the CAL RFP and the Frontier bid. I don't believe you can lay failure after failure at the feet of ALPA when it is clear that ASA's reputation in the industry is that of a regional partner that provides substandard service.

 

[guest33]

Notice the press release states the aircraft were awarded to Pinnacle Corp. not Pinnacle Inc. Lets wait and see how long it takes for management to tell us Colgan will be flying these aircraft unless we sign a subpar contract.

 

[flyf15]

The contract is with Pinnacle Corp. Will it be flown by Pinnacle Inc or Colgan pilots?

 

[BoilerUP]

From the press release...

Pinnacle currently expects that the aircraft will be operated by its wholly owned regional jet subsidiary, Pinnacle Airlines, Inc.

 

[playinskys]

I think Colgan should get the CRJ 900's and Pinnacle just fly 50 seat RJ's. The pay will be $1.34 more then the current CRJ 200 rate. Imagine that

 

[Mr Wu]

Not to worry. The Colgan Air Pilot Committee will demand an industry leading rate for these jets.

 

[Smarta$$]

Not to worry. The Colgan Air Pilot Committee will demand an industry leading rate for these jets.

Now that is funny!

I told all of you this was comming. Alot of people need to eat their words. Its funny, You will get 300 people come on hear and tell you that the rumor is false and it will never happen. But when it is announced you only hear crickets from those same people.

 

[jc3]

Do they have any idea where they will be flying them out of. ATL, CVG, SLC?

 

[GearUpLightsIn]

Do they have any idea where they will be flying them out of. ATL, CVG, SLC?

Well considering that Delta told us to "C the Future" with jet bridges on it now in Atl so they could get any jet into our gates on C, 170's 900's etc...

That is from SH.

ASA sucks... have I mentioned that before?