Commutair's big news??

[007]

I hear there's big news. Anybody care to exagerate?

Bueller, Bueller......

 

[WSurf]

1. The owners at Commutair just bought serveral more DC-3's with your once profit sharing money!! Or

2. They are gonna announce a order of????????????????????????????

25 brand new 1900E models!!! And to help with this new order, all pilots will take 30% Pay cuts!!!! And the owners will once again buy more DC-3's

Just Kiddin!!! Flew there sometime ago, hope its good stuff u hear...

 

[NEDude]

Don't hold your breath. Apparently there is no announcement. Just the company roadshows to explain in person all of the recent changes.

 

[dhc8ap]

Hey WSurf,

Not much changed at Piedmont either. Big News at Commutair is synonomous with getting jets at Piedmont. What ever happened to Frank S? I hear Hayter is still there.

Ah, those were the good old days, 33R at KBOS, and terrain warnings on the ILS into SLK

 

[I.P. Freley]

Didn't "S" go away like a year and a half ago?

 

[humveedriver]

007 are you an Eta Iota Sig?.... WSurf quit being a pogue and read your messages before I ship to Iraq!

 

[dhc8ap]

Humvee Driver,
Is that you F.S.?

 

[jimcav]

Hey Billy, Hows it goin? PM me or give me a call sometime.I still talk to most of our Commutair newhire group, and would like to hear from you.

 

[WSurf]

Man, thats awesome that some of the old Commutair guys still surf this board!!!!!! I miss those days, montreal, Shady Diana's! Wearing my Viking hat and pillaging downtown Platsburg!!!! Those were the days!!
And who in the hell was the drunk taxi driver that used to give us rides all the time! What the hell were we thinking getting in the cab watching him down drinks while he took our drunk butts home... That is way too funny. Hope its still a blast now like it was then!!!

 

[Visceral]

I hear there's big news. Anybody care to exagerate?

Bueller, Bueller......

I heard they are looking at buying Saab 340s, but don't know if that is old or new news.

 

[LearLove]

The Saab rumor has been around since at least late 98/early99 when I first herd it as a 135 pilot applying to 121 commuters/regionals.

The follow up I herd back then was that didn't get the financing (from Saab i guess) due to some kind of IRS investigation in ref. to tax filing. This was around the summer of 99.

A year later they got 25 or so new 1900's then switched to CAL and the summer of 01 cut the fleet in half due to some other stuff. After which they kind of restructured and made ALB a "mini" hub for CAL then went into CLE which is where they are at today.

note: I'm not a CA pilot I'm just relaying what i've been told and seen over the years in ref. to CA, having flown in and around the NE US along side them for the past 5+ years.

Any CA confirm this or correct it?

 

[NEDude]

The switch to CAL happened in Dec 2000. The cutbacks in the summer of '01 (ie. Pre-9/11) occured as a result of a "rough transition" from the Airways system to the CAL system.

We are currently looking at either the Saab 340B+ or Dash 8 Q200. I don't know if you'd call it a rumor as management is very open about talking about it. Now whether they are serious about it or not is another question.

 

[skidbuggy]

Hi,

The Saab rumor was well alive in '95 and they were coming....

At Commutair the best thing to go by is believe it when you see it.

Bye

 

[CA1900]

Hi,

The Saab rumor was well alive in '95 and they were coming....

At Commutair the best thing to go by is believe it when you see it.

Absolutely!

I've been "looking at" getting a Mercedes S600, too. Doesn't mean it's gonna happen any time in the realistic near future, though.

 

[Justino]

The S600 is a nice ride!

 

[I.P. Freley]

The S600 is a nice ride!

I'll take the new M5, thanks.

 

[007]

Humvee drver,

No man I am a Gamma Kappa Sig.
The one with all the rednecks.

cheerio