Comair Set To Recall Pilots In 2010

[JECKEL]

Comair has been advised by Delta Airlines that it needs to ramp up it's staffing to cover additional flying opportunities for 2010.

Comair will retain all pilots scheduled for furlough on January 01, 2010 and recall additional pilots to cover the increase in flying.

In addition, Comair will bew recalling flight attendants who are currently on furlough.

This information came via company memo from Dave Soaper, VP of Aircraft Operations, today.

 

[screamingpax]

If this is true, congrats to you COMAIR people.

 

[WWEfan]

I would be surprised if 1 out of every 4 pilots accepted the recall. Good news though. Hope its true for those guys.

 

[711-24-7]

Good for you guys, I hope it is everyone down to the last person on the list.....Good Luck!!

 

[pilotguy143]

who would have thought?

 

[captainv]

Cancelling 32 furloughs (Jan 2010), recalling 23. Still 300ish guys on the street, but it's a start.

 

[JoeMerchant]

Good news...Congrats!

 

[N813CA]

Actually ones that are getting recalled just lost their jobs Nov 1st so I bet most of them come back.

 

[Lynxman]

Ok so whats going on here I've heard recalls now from a few other places something must be going on here.

 

[CX880]

What will this mean for ASA? more crj 7s, crj 900s?

 

[USCtrojan]

Congrats Comair Pilots!! Good to see some good news on the FI Ranch!

Trojan

 

[king10pin02]

What will this mean for ASA? more crj 7s, crj 900s?

cant the comair guys have one positive thread to themselves? how does comair recalling have anything to do with ASA?

 

[Raoul Duke]

How many 700s or 900s is ASA getting?

 

[sayrejm]

I hope a bunch, the unemployment check only lasts about 9 more weeks unless good ol obama gets me another extension..... love me some o've that obama money!

 

[WMUSIGPI]

Actually ones that are getting recalled just lost their jobs Nov 1st so I bet most of them come back.

maybe but weren't many of those voluntary? I'd bet almost none of them come back this quick. I know 2 that won't come back this quick.

 

[xjhawk]

I think this is funny since Delta in essence told Mesaba to ramp up their much excersized furlough plan for the coming years!

 

[bvt1151]

Sounds to me like they're preparing for a Mesa Chapter 11/7.

 

[JustaNumber]

Could it be they've gotten a sneak peak at the coming new flight time/duty time regs, and realize it would be cheaper to hold onto the furloughees than to retrain them after they've all dequal'ed?

Although the wording of the memo (additional flying opportunities), combined with the fact that Delta is actually reducing overall flying next year, does suggest the Mesa replacement theory is more accurate.

 

[no1pilot2000]

Keep your fingers crossed

Fir those furloughed pilots at Comair who get recalled, congrats! Take the job, get back to flying, and hopefully better things ahead. Hopefully more airlines that have pilots on furloughed will get those pilots back in the cockpit and in the air.

Only time will tell. Good luck to all!

 

[N813CA]

no1pilot2000

Very well said.

 

[wmuflyguy]

I think this is funny since Delta in essence told Mesaba to ramp up their much excersized furlough plan for the coming years!

Our furlough plan is just as exercised as yours nothing funny about it.

 

[N813CA]

We still have over 300 pilots on the street. How many does Mesaba have right now? We are all getting screwed we just have been screwed earlier and probably more later too.

 

[Northern Lights]

We still have over 300 pilots on the street. How many does Mesaba have right now? We are all getting screwed we just have been screwed earlier and probably more later too.

As of December 7, there will be approx. 125 furloughed at Mesaba. With 13 more Saabs being parked in 2010 that number will only go up.

 

[DX Rick]

maybe but weren't many of those voluntary? I'd bet almost none of them come back this quick. I know 2 that won't come back this quick.

No, but what I have heard from the rumor mill, some ALPA reps have mentions that the 7 guys who volunteered to be furloughed might get it later down the road.
As for now, the Nov 1st guys are being recalled. I know of about 6-7 of them that have taken jobs with ATC, Firefighter, Police and bartender.
They might have to dip into the guys who were furloughed last year.

 

[doh]

Good news, hope it continues!

 

[V-1]

No, but what I have heard from the rumor mill, some ALPA reps have mentions that the 7 guys who volunteered to be furloughed might get it later down the road.
As for now, the Nov 1st guys are being recalled. I know of about 6-7 of them that have taken jobs with ATC, Firefighter, Police and bartender.
They might have to dip into the guys who were furloughed last year.

There were more than seven who took the voluntary furlough...seventeen if I recall correctly...I'm not motivated to look it up.

Those who took the voluntary furlough are the least likely to return at the first opportunity because they either have something more important, or lucrative, to do with their time than continue to be a performer in the Comair circus...and since they have unlimited bypass rights until everyone junior to them has been offered a recall there's no reason to jump on the first opportunity to return to the idiocy that Comair and Delta perpetuate.