Pinnacle Files for Bankruptcy

[goahead]

Nah not at 9E, gonna shred all the contracts and become the lowest cost regional and take GoJet head on for all the regional flying, resulting in furloughs everywhere else.

 

[silver02ex]

Here comes about 800 furloughs.

Lots of FO's will jump ship by the time all the Q's and Saab are gone, so I doubt it will be that many.

 

[79%N1]

Nah not at 9E, gonna shred all the contracts and become the lowest cost regional and take GoJet head on for all the regional flying, resulting in furloughs everywhere else.

Probably this.....^^^^^^^^^^^

 

[Flyer1015]

Saabs all gone, Qs all gone by November, and according to a Pinnacle update memo/FAQ, the ATL original CRJ-900s are gone starting Jan 2013.

 

[suupah]

What changes are going to happen to our operations?
 We intend to complete the wind-down of EAS flying with US Airways.
 Beginning in May, we will begin the wind-down of our Colgan Q400 and Saab 340
operations with United Airlines. The Saab 340 wind-down is planned to be completed by
the end of July and the Q-400 operation will come to an end in November.
 We will continue to operate all CRJ200s and the former Mesaba CRJ-900 aircrafts.
 Beginning in January 2013, we will wind down the 16 Pinnacle CRJ-900 aircrafts over a
period of five months.
 PinnPro ground-handling associated with the Colgan Saab 340 operation will wind down
in coordination with air service termination to specified cities.

this from the memo to cjc employees

 

[Carl_Spackler]

Mesaba CRJ-900 aircrafts.
Pinnacle CRJ-900 aircrafts

I guess Colgan doesn't proof read their stuff either.

Aircrafts, huh?

 

[SpauldingSmails]

Wow. What a contrived heaping load of crap on behalf of Pinnacle management. Best of luck to those who will undoubtedly lose their jobs.

 

[Gulf-front]

Good luck to all my friends at Colgan!

 

[silver02ex]

Also, I wonder what's going to happen to the Calgan FA's..... Go to the bottom of Pinnacle's list?

 

[Indy319FA]

Also, I wonder what's going to happen to the Calgan FA's..... Go to the bottom of Pinnacle's list?

They can apply for preferential hiring at Pinnacle, and will be terminated once Colgan operations cease.

 

[BentOver]

Here comes the concessionary contract votes.....

 

[Snaab]

Are the Atlanta PNCL 900s also being phased out, as someone suggested earlier?

 

[1.3XVso]

Are the Atlanta PNCL 900s also being phased out, as someone suggested earlier?

Please be easy with my atlanta peeps they are still seeing stars.

 

[Hamfighter]

While not a major, definitely affects the majors.
At one extreme, halting United Express service.
At the other end, receiving a $74.3 million dollar loan from Delta. Thanks.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-...pter-11-bankruptcy-protection.html?cmpid=yhoo

 

[BoilerUP]

...but Sean Menke REALLY needed that big raise a few weeks ago, you know, so 'top management talent' doesn't leave in the middle of bankruptcy proceedings