BentOver
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Early 2005, they said if we took a pay freeze we would be the primary operator of EMB 170's in the Delta system. Even parked a 170 on the ramp for 3-4 days so we could walk through it and see it. We took the pay freeze. EMB's went to Shuttle America.
Later in Bankruptcy, they said we needed to take further cuts to remain competitive. We refused. Company filed 1113(c) motion. Eventually we agreed on a concessionary contract that included a fleet guarantee and a percentage guarantee of all new DCI deliveries. While the aircraft remained in the fleet, many were parked for extended periods, many were lent to other DCI carriers, but hey, they were still in our fleet, even if our pilots weren't flying them. We never saw another aircraft delivery.
2010. Told we needed to shrink to lower out costs. Shrink to 44 aircraft in 1.5 yrs. No new aircraft.
2012. In spite of union offering a low ball concessionary contract to keep the company afloat and meet cost savings targets outlined by company as necessary, we were told that our costs were unsustainable and were shut down in 62 days.
That gentlemen was Comair. Anyone who truly believes that if you come to a concessionary agreement and suddenly new aircraft will appear is a fool. A fool who hasn't learned from past mistakes and is well on their way to repeating them.
Please learn.
(All your concessionary agreement will do is to set the future bar lower for other carriers. Your fate has already been determined.)
Good Luck.
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This is NOT AN EXAGGERATION!!!! It is exactly how it went down... I was there for the pay freeze, bankruptcy BS... (Luckily I had moved on well before fleet reductions/furloughs etc)
I cannot stress enough that the way CRJ Puppy describes it is 100% accurate... Including the parking of an E170 on the ramp very close to the trailors(operations).... I refused to "tour" the thing, and living in Florence it would have been very easy to stop by for a look.
Learn from the past and the way managements work... Pinnacle is going through nearly an identical gameplan that Comair endured.
Delta's plan has been decided and enacted upon well before this current vote. The plan that Delta has decided on will not be decided by a pilot vote. Especially the vote of one of it's many regional affiliates.