Attrition at ASA after the bonus?

[contrail67]

Fox Atlanta news last night.

He is just spreading doom and gloom the best he can...they are mgmnt positions...and RJ's being replaced

 

[701EV]

He is just spreading doom and gloom the best he can...they are mgmnt positions...and RJ's being replaced

JP is not spreading gloom and doom. He just stated what he saw on Fox5 Atlanta. On 11Alive news they said the same thing " Delta is on a hiring freeze". They didn't say but we're still hiring pilots and FA's they said HIRING FREEZE.

701EV

 

[BigShow]

I will be leaving after the bonus. Just to good to pass up

 

[Oakum_Boy]

Just to good to pass up

The money or leaving?

 

[~~~^~~~]

Fox news initially reported Sept 11th was due to a navigational error causing Regional Jets to hit buildings on a clear day. The news babe said, as the second airplane hit, "they are going to have to fix that." No kidding, don't believe Fox's lousy aviation reporting.

Schoolhouse rumors are that the first classes in 2008 will be 35, instead of 25. Delta said they were going to hire 200 in 07 and hired twice that number. Depending on these MD90's, 2008 could see hiring go over the current picture of 600.

It is not all doom & gloom. In the 50 seat debate ASA has the better product in the CRJ, the SkyWest contract which side stepped bankruptcy and the leased RJ's from Delta that Delta did negotiate cheap rates on while at the courthouse.

Delta seems to like having the uncertainty out there, but from the bleachers things look pretty good for ASA going into half time. Things hinge on how SkyWest runs the operation.

 

[John Pennekamp]

JP is not spreading gloom and doom. He just stated what he saw on Fox5 Atlanta. On 11Alive news they said the same thing " Delta is on a hiring freeze". They didn't say but we're still hiring pilots and FA's they said HIRING FREEZE.

701EV

Yeah, typical FI, "shoot the messenger". Ready, Fire, Aim.

 

[John Pennekamp]

DL owns the ATRs out right=all profit

Delta does NOT own the ATRs. All of them are leased from Antoine Finance Company.

But they still make crazy money for Delta. I was once told we only need to fill 10 seats to break even. We rarely fly with less than 50.

 

[CFI2766]

Delta does NOT own the ATRs. All of them are leased from Antoine Finance Company.

But they still make crazy money for Delta. I was once told we only need to fill 10 seats to break even. We rarely fly with less than 50.

I hadn't really thought about it, but I can't really remember the last time that I had less than half of the seats filled. Other than HXD, it seems like nearly every where we go we have greater than 90% of the seats filled on the ATR.

 

[CFI2766]

It is not all doom & gloom. In the 50 seat debate ASA has the better product in the CRJ, the SkyWest contract which side stepped bankruptcy and the leased RJ's from Delta that Delta did negotiate cheap rates on while at the courthouse.

Delta seems to like having the uncertainty out there, but from the bleachers things look pretty good for ASA going into half time. Things hinge on how SkyWest runs the operation.[/quote]

I'm not quite sure what you are saying here... is it that ASA has better rates on the 50 seat RJ than SKYW? Other way around?

 

[ehaecker]

We take 66 + JS quite often in the ATR