Congratulations Chautauqua

[FDJ2]

Delta Connection Carrier Chautauqua Airlines Named Air Transport World Regional Airline of the Year
Monday January 26, 11:29 am ET


ATLANTA, Jan. 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Delta Connection would like to congratulate Chautauqua Airlines for receiving the 2004 Air Transport World (ATW) Regional Airline of the Year award.
"The ATW award is a great honor, and Delta Connection is proud to have Chautauqua as part of our portfolio of quality regional airlines," said Fred Buttrell, president and chief executive officer of Delta Connection, Inc. "Chautauqua joined Delta Connection in November 2002, and has been a valuable addition to the DCI family, allowing us to further expand our geographic reach with a high quality product into key markets."

The ATW award is based on exemplary service to customers, technology innovation, superior safety record and development of new markets and services. The award began in 1974, and has become one of the most coveted and valued honors a company or a person in the airline industry can receive.

 

[Ichibu]

This is the beginning of our demise. Once you start winning big titles it's all downhill from there.

 

[General Lee]

And, I believe it is true (?) that you guys have hired our furloughs without having them resign their Delta numbers. IF that is true, then Thanks Again!!! It will be remembered....(along with ASA)

Bye Bye--General Lee

 

[embraerjetpilot]

It is true.. we have pilots from Delta, Usairways, TWA, American, and United... The one guy i flew with from Delta was very sharp...

 

[bladeusa]

are you hiring these furloughs as off the street captains? your profile says your an FO.. so im wondering.. is it that? or u doing FO/FO pairings these days to save money to under-bid the phantom DCI RJ's or what. =)~

 

[T-Gates]

I was wondering the same thing....

 

[wil]

CHQ is a real classy organization!! Congratulations, you all deserve it!! I would like to also thank you all for the rides to/from work! I wish we were doing the flying but that's another story

 

[fly4ever]

Bedford was running Mesaba Airlines when it also was named Regional Airline of the Year in 1997. He bailed out with his golden parachute not too many years afterward and left the company in a downward spiral. Our former Director of Flight Ops turned down a job offer for the same position at Chautaqua a few months ago because of the similarities to the Bedford years at Mesaba.

Enjoy it while you can.

 

[AirBill]

are you hiring these furloughs as off the street captains?

Not really. Although we are participating in U's J4J program.

 

[Cracker]

CHQ has only been hiring "street captains" that are part the Jet for Jobs program. But, I guess they aren't really "street captains" since they are coming for mainline. Either way, based on their own company's seniority, the J4J classes are split 50/50 for FOs and Captains.

 

[Always deferred]

And, I believe it is true (?) that you guys have hired our furloughs without having them resign their Delta numbers. IF that is true, then Thanks Again!!! It will be remembered....(along with ASA)

Bye Bye--General Lee

General I know for a fact that ACA has hired furloughed Delta guys w/o requiring them to resign their numbers as well.

 

[RegionalFA]

at CHQ it's my understanding that the J4J guys come in as FO's and at the bottom of the seniority list (the same list) and therefore aren't captains at all "street" or otherwise.

just my understanding of course, I could be mistaken.

 

[General Lee]

Alwaysdeferred,

If that is true, then THANK YOU also. When we eventually hire again sometime in the future after the furloughs come home, we will get a list of the nice things done for them, and then we will go forward from there.

Bye Bye--General Lee

 

[Skull-One]

No offense General, but I don't think Delta gives a sh*t about pref hiring for CHQ pilots (if I'm reading you correctly). It's not like CHQ pilots made that call. And with all the backstabbing low life worthless motherf*ckers in this industry who save their own skin at the expense of people who have helped them in the past...

(Must try to remember what my shrink tells me about anger management. Must...resist....must....resist.... [Homer Simpson Voice] "Urge to kill....rising....RISING.....fading...*RISING*!")

Delta pilots won't remember or care...nor should they. It wasn't our call so we don't deserve the credit.

 

[FDJ2]

Delta pilots won't remember or care...nor should they. It wasn't our call so we don't deserve the credit.

Not necessarily true, as surprising as it might seem, at least one ALPA pilot group that I know of actively resist the hiring of furloughed pilots onto the bottom of their list without requiring them to resign their seniority number. The fact that the Chautauqua pilots accept furloughed pilots on the bottom of their list makes them stand tall relative to those, who for their own petty agenda's, turned their backs on furloughed fellow ALPA pilots.

 

[Skull-One]

Perhaps. Frankly, I don't know of a single CHQ pilot that would *oppose* hiring Delta pilots, but even if we had the Company would do whatever it wanted, just like it always has. Ask the 120 guys fired out of seniority about that one.

 

[General Lee]

Skull-one,

I think you are wrong. Even though our "No furlough Clause" really hasn't worked to the best of its ability, we as a group have not forgotten about our furloughs. We have paid their Cobra medical payments since the day they went out (Nov 1st, 2001), and hopefully will continue to do so. There have been other ways we have helped, like people signing up to sponser furloughs, to take them out golfing for a day to forget about their problems, etc..... I, along with many many others, do not forget about them, and we hope they will be back soon. We don't just forget people, and we will NOT forget about people who help our own. When hiring eventually starts up again some day, there will be many of us who will contact the people who do the hiring, (usually HR people and retired Captains) and TELL them about who stepped forward and provided our guys HELP when they NEEDED it. That is a promise.

Bye Bye--General Lee

 

[OPECJet]

No offense General, but I don't think Delta gives a sh*t about pref hiring for CHQ pilots (if I'm reading you correctly). It's not like CHQ pilots made that call. And with all the backstabbing low life worthless motherf*ckers in this industry who save their own skin at the expense of people who have helped them in the past...

Goosfrabah.......

 

[OldManPilot]

at CHQ it's my understanding that the J4J guys come in as FO's and at the bottom of the seniority list (the same list) and therefore aren't captains at all "street" or otherwise.

just my understanding of course, I could be mistaken.

RegionalFA,

You have been given bad information. CHQ j4j pilots are hired as both CA's and FO's. 50/50.

 

[jaybird]

RegionalFA,

You have been given bad information. CHQ j4j pilots are hired as both CA's and FO's. 50/50.

Yes, but even the CA's are put on the bottom of the seniority list. Therefore it could be over two years untill they can hold a line. I'm sure you knew that just making it clearer.