Compass/Mesaba best positioned

[SplitBar]

Soon to be airing in most Detroit local television markets.

 

[Smarta$$]

Just heard them say in the press conference that Mesaba and Compass have the best cost structure within the Regional partners and they look to get the contract carriers more in line with these wholly owned carriers. That they are positioned to grow.

Also stated there will be shuffling within the contract partners.

Medeco

Pretty simple explanation here. XJ/compass are both wholly owned. Any problems with staffing would hurt the bottom line of NW directly. Both airlines have deliveries of 76 seat AC regularly. They need to paint a great picture to ensure that wide eyed nubies keep showing up for class. They want good return on investment for the 76 seat aircraft, especially since NW (and DL in the future) are assuming all the risk on both of these airlines because they own them.

Particularly for compass. With the flowback as common knowledge, oil at 114 plus and a merger around the corner, they know this will make recruiting people to the bottom of that list very difficult.

Plus with the low wages and very low longevity, they are very cheap to run.

Why didn't they mention comair? I don't know. They don't have deliveries coming, so maybe they are not worried about recruiting. Maybe they plan to have cuts at comair, and thus don't need to court the new hires.

 

[aa5b]

Comair was mentioned right after Mesaba and Compass during the press conference, although effecient was not used to describe them.

 

[JECKEL]

Comair has job fairs in Columbus and Orlando in the near future searching for new hires.

HR recently, about a week ago, got more required new hire slots to fill for this summer and leading into the fall.

A vacancy bid for 36 captains just came out for CVG in the 50 seat.

Looks like they are setting up a house of cards. We'll see if it falls.

 

[Speedtape]

Just heard them say in the press conference that Mesaba and Compass have the best cost structure within the Regional partners and they look to get the contract carriers more in line with these wholly owned carriers. That they are positioned to grow.

Also stated there will be shuffling within the contract partners.

Medeco

Maybe, and maybe not! Overall. all the regionals are inline with cost structure. Having said that, it really boils down to performance at this point. The carriers that can deliver on performance, will be the surviors.

There will only be 4-5 when the dust settles. If those with long-term contracts can meet the performance goals, they have a guaranteed spot on the final team. Performance is now the determinant, the only determinant.

Delta Management will be making those decisions in the future--not Northwest Management. Future decisions are going to put the "Regional" back in the Regionals. When the dust settles, there will only be one regional in every hub!

 

[JECKEL]

AP News today:

Delta has said that it was evaluating whether to sell any noncore assets, including Comair. President and Chief Financial Officer Ed Bastian said Tuesday at a news conference in Atlanta that the deal will have no effect on Comair.
"We've said all along whether we make a decision to ultimately divest of Comair or retain Comair, either way it's going to be an important part of the Delta network for as far as the eye can see," Bastian said.

 

[outtahere]

WOW! Thats as good as taking the noose off of the Comair pilots neck. Good for you guys, maybe now ya'll can rebuild it to what it once was.

 

[wmuflyguy]

WOW! Thats as good as taking the noose off of the Comair pilots neck. Good for you guys, maybe now ya'll can rebuild it to what it once was.

I hadn't felt that the noose was around our necks...this place has a future. I just don't think its future is in CVG.

 

[SBD]

I hadn't felt that the noose was around our necks...this place has a future. I just don't think its future is in CVG.

Amen. I feel those crusty CVG folks days are coming to an end. Let's see how many N. Kentucky folks will like commuting to DTW/JFK/etc.

 

[79%N1]

Maybe, and maybe not! Overall. all the regionals are inline with cost structure. Having said that, it really boils down to performance at this point. The carriers that can deliver on performance, will be the surviors.

There will only be 4-5 when the dust settles. If those with long-term contracts can meet the performance goals, they have a guaranteed spot on the final team. Performance is now the determinant, the only determinant.

Delta Management will be making those decisions in the future--not Northwest Management. Future decisions are going to put the "Regional" back in the Regionals. When the dust settles, there will only be one regional in every hub!

So, then it's not looking good for ASA. Despite all the back-slapping and feel good memo's, ASA is usually last or second to last every day in D0, which Mamma D seems to be big on. So, if Delta is keeping partners based on performance, it looks like Shuttle, Comair, Skywest and ExpressJet will be the winners....with ASA, Pinnacle and Freedom as the losers.