John Pennekamp
I'd rather be here...
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What's a COMA line?
Stockpiling pilots...it must mean something big is on the horizon.![]()
you assume that they're going to get kicked out. Skywest has yet to close their CR9 base in Atlanta. Shuttle America's is growing. Why would Pinnacle close their base? The 900 they have parked on the south side of the field looks great sitting there. No reason to think they'll get booted. If anything, Comair, Mesaba, and Compass will be sitting pretty when the merger of NWA/DAL goes through.
I'm interested to hear why we CNX'd classes and had no idea our attrition was pushing 30. But where are they going? CAL/NWA/DAL/SWA are not hiring that many pilots are they?
I was talking in the CPO to CT and he stated that ASA is very weary of a pilot shortage. They feel that its better to over staff than get caught behind the 8-ball like MESA. Which if you think about how many airlines have not even begun to hire...
Who knows if we'll get more flying from DAL. Pinnacle is in negotiations so I can imagine their on time performance will "change." How long is their contract with DAL?
If we can keep our performance levels up maybe we can get some more flying. I wonder if Pinnacle got the ATL flying because our contract was dragged out so long. Did we even have a chance to bid on that flying?
I'm interested to hear why we CNX'd classes and had no idea our attrition was pushing 30. But where are they going? CAL/NWA/DAL/SWA are not hiring that many pilots are they?
I was talking in the CPO to CT and he stated that ASA is very weary of a pilot shortage. They feel that its better to over staff than get caught behind the 8-ball like MESA. Which if you think about how many airlines have not even begun to hire...
Who knows if we'll get more flying from DAL. Pinnacle is in negotiations so I can imagine their on time performance will "change." How long is their contract with DAL?
If we can keep our performance levels up maybe we can get some more flying. I wonder if Pinnacle got the ATL flying because our contract was dragged out so long. Did we even have a chance to bid on that flying?
Out of the airlines you listed only SWA has slowed down. There's still UAL and Airtran also. As well as a bunch of other's who are better than being stuck at ASA for life.
ASA cancelled 2 training classes...dunno why just heard from the training dpt a few days ago. Maybe sims are full or something. Talked with a skywest crew in IAH and they say that they were shrinkin from 9 planes to 2 or 3 planes in April in ATL. Thought that was interesting to hear.