CJC Service Cut at LGA

[Snaab]

Got the email about our service reductions at LGA. I'm a little cloudy about what "pull down" service means. Are we, in fact, pulling out/cutting all service in September??

-Snaab

 

[SmitteyB]

Okay- not a good day for anyone at Colgan.

Highlighs of the Call

-Pulling 4 or 5 SAABs out of the US Airways Express system.
-3 Aircraft pulled from SYR, 1 from ALB, 1 from PVD (PVD will close as a base)
-Colgan is reducing the flying, Airways is not taking it away. Will be replaced with PDT.
-Still waiting for EAS awards in LEB, BHB, AUG, PKB, MGW, CKB
-No pilot furloughs until November 1st
-Will furlough by order of seniority (Surprising)
-50 to 60 Pilots will be furloughed forseeable.
-40 Flight Attendants will be furloughed.
-Voluntary furloughs bids will begin next week (90 days)
-Still looking at Q400 possible homes. Cannot take delivery of ANY Q400 until 3rd/4th Quarter 2009 at the earliest
-Trying to place the 4 or 5 SAABs with other carriers, no one really interested right now.

Hopefully this all works out and we can keep our EAS stuff so people don't have to be furloughed.

 

[LowlyPropCapt]

I was going to post about this, but I didn't want to scare anyone...

Some of us Piedmonsters noticed that we have LGA-PVD, LGA-ALB and LGA-SYR (good thing we closed that base ) in September. What airplanes we are going to use for this I don't know, but the schedule has it as a Dash 8-100. I can't seem to find from where, but I cannot imagine we aren't losing flying someplace else to do this... The fleet is stretched thin as it is.

Best of luck to you Colgan folks. Tough market. If oil gets much higher I fear we will all be looking for work in the food service or day labor industries.

 

[Boilermaker98]

MDT is losing the twice a day PIT roundtrip, and looks like the CLT r/t also...both starting in September.

 

[suupah]

I wouldn't be surprised if CJC was gone in a year if fuel doesn't come down. The Q program could be sold off and the rest be dissoved.

 

[olympus593]

I think we (PDT) are getting 1 more airplane this summer and keeping it for the rest of the year, they also said each airplane is going to be flying more hours per day.

 

[labbats]

MDT is losing the twice a day PIT roundtrip, and looks like the CLT r/t also...both starting in September.

MDT is getting hit hard then. Eagle is closing it entirely.

On the upside maybe this will give them the ability to fix the bumpiest runway in America.

 

[Sig]

To the tiny pr!ck that made the "still in SYR" joke in another thread... suck it.

To everyone else affected by this, tough times ahead and good luck. We are ALL going to need it.

As far as Peeved/mounted doing the flying-- hang on. I bet it could get as nasty as it ever was. I can see it happening if the fleet were tip-top... sorry, just choked and fell off my chair... There's no way pulling ERL back into the system, shutting down the paint line and pushing block any further will get the flying done.

 

[WSurf]

The fleet is stretched thin as it is.

Cough, Cough-Horizon. Cough, Cough-Q200's

Cough, Cough!


wink wink

 

[Fred Rogers]

This is no fun for anyone.

This Colganoscopy is going to be checking your throat from the south end.

We are going to be "doin da colgan" from a burger king drive through window. Hey! Maybe the burger king in HEF will finally have some english speaking employees!

Best of luck everyone involved!!!!!!!!!!

 

[mu2]

If any of you Colgan guys need a ride home to SYR you are welcome on Piedmont. You guys took care of us getting to and from work after SYR closed. I hear some good stories about some of the things you have done to make sure we got on the last flight of the night so we could get home.

 

[LowlyPropCapt]

If any of you Colgan guys need a ride home to SYR you are welcome on Piedmont. You guys took care of us getting to and from work after SYR closed. I hear some good stories about some of the things you have done to make sure we got on the last flight of the night so we could get home.

Mega dittos. Welcome aboard.

 

[I_Love_Lamp]

This couldn't happen to a nicer group of people.

Not.

Good riddance. Hopefully this is only the beginning of the downfall.

And here comes someone chiming in on "well don't wish bad for the pilots"...

Well, Colgan has never been anything but a horrible place to work, so the pilots only have themselves to blame.

That being said I've met some nice Colgan people but they still work for the lowest common denominator.

 

[AirHead99]

Piedmont is ceasing all service to IPT.

 

[olympus593]

Piedmont is ceasing all service to IPT.

To bad had a lot of fun at cellblock...