Good news for Comair and ASA

[bvt1151]

As much as I'd like this rumor to be true, it just isn't.

 

[LegacyDriver]

Yeah, the real truth is CHQ is getting 25 and Mesa is getting 25 in CVG!

 

[sleepy]

ASA is already getting 25 of the 50 seat RJ's from the last RFP.

 

[DDpaysoff]

Nobody is getting anything until they show up, that is just all there is to it.

 

[RichO]

You guys sound like typical airline employees now....the glass is half empty..........................................................

 

[Chosen One]

Where is WorldSeries?

I suppose he's on a trip with no internet access? Or is he hiding from us now?

 

[standaman]

Bombardier doesn't have anything on it either

 

[FurloughedAgain]

clown

Well... I didn't THINK he would start a flame war...

Hopefully he'll show up and join the conversation soon. Otherwise I guess I look like quite a clown for defending him...

 

[moscowcfi]

As far as I know, Comair is getting 2 or 3 more jets this year. That info came from HR.

 

[jarhead]

It has always been known that Comair would recieve a total of 7 airplanes in 2004......all of them being 70 seaters. The starter of the thread claimed that 25 more were coming in 2005. There is no credible information to support that claim.

 

[ILStoMinimums]

I have a friend who is in the June class at ASA, and he was told that ASA is getting 25 more jets......must be true?

 

[jarhead]

ASA might be.....Comair is not getting 25 in 2005. They are getting zero in 2005

 

[chperplt]

Comair is not getting 25 in 2005. They are getting zero in 2005

Don't be so quick to assume things... just because you haven't seen it in writing doesn't mean things won't happen. Things like aircraft orders can change at a moments notice..

Let's keep the faith that I won't be on reserve until 06... or 07

 

[jarhead]

You are correct, chperplt. Everything is always subject to change….sometimes at a moment’s notice. ASA and their contract negotiations with pilots could possibly even threaten to place aircraft they’re slated to get elsewhere. Stranger things have happened. No one but management knows what they are about to do, and sometimes I don’t think even they know what they’re about to do. DCI pulls ASA management’s strings, and DAL management pulls DCI’s strings. Hell, I could invent a scenario where Comair could get 50 airplanes in ’05 and ‘06 if Bombardier or Embrarer could produce that many for them, or if CMR starts getting airplanes from some yet unknown bankruptcy from a competitor’s BK sale.

That all said, there is no published, credible information “out there” that says any planes beyond the remaining CL700’s for 2004 are firmed up in a delivery contract and schedule beyond the few left for this year. Sure, someday CMR will “probably” grow the fleet, but that is not a certainty either. Another 9-11 type event and the fleet size could conceivably shrink. Let’s all hope not, and that your upgrade will be sooner rather than later.

 

[wrigley23]

Just a question, since it seems a very reasonable probability that there will no new aircraft after the end of the year 2004, when was the last year Comair did not take delivery of a new airframe? They've been taking RJs since 93/94, so it must have been prior to that. Any of you 10+ year Captains remember?

Cya