Mesaba: Great Expectations....right...

[Hulk Hogan]

Seven, I always thought I heard strange crap going on in MSP back in the day. Those darn hotel walls were thin!

 

[Ridgeback]

I for one will never post names of people that told me something so take it for what it's worth. In reguards to the hangers full of Crj's in YUL my friend who was doing a DTW YUL high speed in the final days of the avro say a NWA painted CRJ 200 with a canidian "N" number was in one of the hangers. They, he and the captain, said they say it in one of the hangers while taxing. This was late Dec. Like I said don't give me any grief for not namming my source. If you don't believe then don't worry about it.

 

[Whataboutbob]

Who will play the NWA game. They are not going to accept a low bid from someone they cannot control.

As far as "Who will play the NWA game" goes, according to the press in the Minneapolis area they even have the MAC "Metropolitan airports commission" playing the game. By threatning to shift flying to other hubs from MSP they have the MAC sweating so bad about loosing business that they are going to give NWA a huge deal on operational fees out of MSP, even though NWA owes the MAC 260 million from previous hard times. Maybe someday somebody will call there bluff.

 

[Hulk Hogan]

Maybe it was one of those destined (crj200) for XJ prior to the bankruptcy. I heard they had atleast two more done but never got delivered.???

 

[GidgetDog]

Who is YPF? Why the Great Powerful Oz, of course! His posts are "all knowing!" Can't ya picture him fumbling with knobs and widgets behind a billowing curtain?

 

[i fly boxes]

i fly into YUL next week, I will go on a late night mission to find out whats going on. I will just sleep in one of the 900's and then report back to work the next day

 

[whaleroast]

YPF doesn't know squat. If Compass isn't going to happen, YPF, then why are there 13 furloughed NW FO's/CA's in St. Louis with Compass badges getting training on the E-190?

 

[YourPilotFriend]

YPF doesn't know squat. If Compass isn't going to happen, YPF, then why are there 13 furloughed NW FO's/CA's in St. Louis with Compass badges getting training on the E-190?

Fleet commonality. The difference between a 195 and a 175 is only the number of seats. So If NWA buys 150 ERJ's a mix of 175's and 195's. They dump the entire training and fleet setup costs to compass instead of the E195 operation at mainline. Staff compass with mainline pilots displaced from the DC-9 to mainline E195's. Sell off the 175 operation before it ever gets off the ground, keep the 195's at mainline. At that point you basically sold the entire startup of a new fleet at a profit. Some "other" regional will get the 175's and pay huge contract costs back to NWA.

 

[Hulk Hogan]

Anybody know a company that is dumb enough to buy an airline that hasn't made any money?

 

[SEVEN]

Seven, I always thought I heard strange crap going on in MSP back in the day. Those darn hotel walls were thin!

It was the sound of me beating my head against the freaking wall trying to figure out the difference between the ECU or the DECU.

 

[SEVEN]

Anybody know a company that is dumb enough to buy an airline that hasn't made any money?

BIG SKY

 

[SEVEN]

Hulk Hogan,

Why are you on the computer? Don't you have an out and back to Cancun or Vegas to do for $36/day?

 

[CFIT]

who will get the new planes?

SkyWest, 38 900's with 76 seats, should be announced soon.

 

[PCL_128]

SkyWest, 38 900's with 76 seats, should be announced soon.

Keep dreaming.

 

[CFIT]

It's what I've been told, I don't really care if it's true or not.

 

[YourPilotFriend]

It's what I've been told, I don't really care if it's true or not.

The rumor is true for now. About half of the Skywest fleet will be painted in NWA colors. Take a guess why.

 

[PCL_128]

The rumor is true for now. About half of the Skywest fleet will be painted in NWA colors. Take a guess why.

I know what you're getting at, but I think they'll probably keep the Delta name and colors.

 

[TAWS]

I know what you're getting at, but I think they'll probably keep the Delta name and colors.

What will you do when these "non-union" boys turn up on your doorstep, flying the same colors FOR LESS!!
Not only that, but they'll gladly vote in a 1% paycut, I mean, "raise", with a HUGE "block override", just to get the growth!

I can hear you now "we have to organize them! Duane, what'll we do?"

Here's a newsflash - these guys are 1 degree of separation from teaching in a 172! This is their first airline gig and they get to go home to whomever pays their bills, and be told just how proud mommy and daddy are of their little (insert name here), who flies real planes now! You know ............ just like you used to do PCL_128!
You're gonna feel what it's like to be undercut by people who just don't give a damn about you, or yours, because now they get to fly that shiney jet! YUM!!
How will you feel when 9E puts you back in the right seat? Or when ALPA stabs you in the back, because those senior to you can't bear to be downgraded/displaced?

Have fun PFT'rs!!

 

[PCL_128]

I can hear you now "we have to organize them! Duane, what'll we do?"

Already working on that, junior.

Here's a newsflash - these guys are 1 degree of separation from teaching in a 172! This is their first airline gig and they get to go home to whomever pays their bills, and be told just how proud mommy and daddy are of their little (insert name here), who flies real planes now!

As usual, you have no clue what you're talking about. Most newhires at Skywest aren't "1 degree of separation from teaching in a 172." Most of them came from previous 121 airlines. Some of them come from Pinnacle, in fact.

How will you feel when 9E puts you back in the right seat?

Hate to break it to you, but this company will go out of business before I end up displaced to the right seat. NWA can't take us below 79 airframes without shareholder lawsuits, and I'm still a lineholder in the left seat with that fleet size.

 

[CFIT]

I know what you're getting at, but I think they'll probably keep the Delta name and colors.

Nope, new aircraft from what I've been told.