Big Meeting Comair

[ThisistheDream]

this is just speculation I have no more inside info than anyone else just my feeling. I def. see some 50 going away the old ones and the 40 seaters and with that the furloughs happen and with alot of COLA or voluntary furloughs, actual furloughs could be less since alot of FO and some Capt. will opt to take a 6 month or 1yr. leave use it to find a new job or career since the pay wont be a factor with the paycuts you will be able to get a job making the same and be home every night while you are gone. But i see an initial concession and then after we are spun off, to remain competitvie to bid we will be asked for another paycut. hopefully none of this happens but this is the dream

 

[tuna pimp]

Here is the concept you just don't seem to grasp. An FO at Delta making 130k/year can take a 15% pay cut and still make a decent living. A Comair FO making 38k a year will now have to sell his little bi-level house in Kentucky to get a double-wide. Comair pilots are not overpaid.

-CF

Here is the concept you don't quite seem to get either....not everybody at Delta is a pilot making $130k.

...and I don't think Comair pilots are overpaid either. It's just a crappy business to be in allround these days.

 

[CheapFlyer]

Here is the concept you don't quite seem to get either....not everybody at Delta is a pilot making $130k.

You are correct in that I assumed you were talking specifically about pilot salaries.

-CF

 

[FreightNazi]

Comair pilots are not overpaid.

-CF

Compared to your peers you are!

 

[standaman]

My guess is tommorrow is the big day.

 

[wrigley23]

Anybody else notice the 90-92% completion the last two days? And it's not weather related cause the weather is the same every day...cloudy.

 

[skyslug]

wx's been bad in BOS plus they've had a radar outtage which has cx'd several flights and that just snowballs into more cx's.

 

[imacdog]

Anybody else notice the 90-92% completion the last two days? And it's not weather related cause the weather is the same every day...cloudy.

It's actually been pretty bad weather-wise in the Northeast starting last Saturday.

 

[ThisistheDream]

our peers are under paided

 

[logolight]

You think the rumor mills are bad at Comair! You should work for Independence. I can tell you that every time managment said an announcement was coming, it was bad news. They even gave us 2 months notice of an important announcement that was being portrayed as good news. The news was the announcement of about 300 furloughs. It was good news for the company because they were restructuring.

 

[CLE145CA]

Compared to your peers you are!

Sounds like the fault of the peers--not COMAIR.

 

[RichO]

I love how originally the post is about a big meeting and now it turns into the standard...."it's your fault, no, it's your fault".....so, anyone have any more inside info on the future of Comair........we all know it's everyone's fault....

 

[dvmthwsvan]

My Delta Insider swore up and down that Delta was to crap on skywest/asa and get the $125mil from the bk court anyway then drop them as a connection and use comair to fly the E190. He said also that Horizon big wigs have been at the Comair GO to see how things are run there. He said this is fact not rumor!

(Did i mention my Delta insider is a DGS rampie?)

I thought this was funny and worth sharing

Good luck to us all
Dave

 

[bvt1151]

FWIW, a member of middle management has said the announcement is to be on Thursday.

I'm not sure even Fred knows exactly when he'll spill the beans.

 

[IFlyFL410]

The BK news both times came pretty early in the morning.

DAL filed BK just after 4p that afternoon, and NWA was not far behind, 4p being the magic hour that the market closes. I was watching tv when they filed and it was announced.