More Planes at Pinnacle

[flagshipper]

I guess i will put my foot in my mouth about growth at 9e

Pinnacle Airlines to Receive Additional Aircraft
MEMPHIS, TN, Nov. 24, 2004 (MARKET WIRE via COMTEX) -- Pinnacle Airlines (NASDAQ: PNCL) will receive ten additional CRJ-200 series aircraft to be operated on behalf of Northwest Airlines. Terms of the arrangements are not yet finalized. These ten aircraft are incremental to the 129 CRJs previously committed by Northwest Airlines. Northwest Airlines recently exercised ten of the 175 CRJs it has on option.

Pinnacle Airlines, Inc. operates under the name Northwest Airlink and provides service to destinations in the United States and Canada. Pinnacle operates an all-jet fleet of Canadair 44 and 50-seat Regional Jets from Northwest hubs at Detroit, Memphis and Minneapolis - St. Paul. Pinnacle Airlines maintains its headquarters in Memphis, Tenn., and employs more than 3,000 People. For further information, please contact Philip Reed, Vice-President, Marketing at 901-348-4257, or visit our web-site at www.nwairlink.com.

This press release contains various forward-looking statements that are based on management's beliefs, as well as assumptions made by and information currently available to management. Although the Company believes that the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are reasonable; it can give no assurance that such expectations will prove to have been correct. Such statements are subject to certain risks, uncertainties and assumptions, including those set forth in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, which are available to investors at our web-site or on line from the Commission. Should one of more of these risks or uncertainties materialize, or should underlying assumptions prove erroneous, actual results may vary materially from results that were anticipated or projected. The Company does not intend to update these forward-looking statements before its next required filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

For further information, please contact:
Philip Reed
Vice-President, Marketing
901-348-4257
www.nwairlink.com

SOURCE: Pinnacle Airlines Corp.

 

[another cfii]

Just because we're getting a few more jets means squat to our ongoing negotiation or growth. We have to remember to keep our eyes on the ball, and do not let any nwa/mgmt tactics affects our strategy.

Just my 2 cents...

 

[John_W_Thompson]

Company News

Northwest Airlines orders Bombardier CRJ200 jets

Wed Nov 24, 2004 04:32 PM ET

VANCOUVER, British Columbia , Nov 24 (Reuters) - Northwest Airlines (NWAC.O: Quote, Profile, Research) has put in firm orders for 10 Bombardier (BBDb.TO: Quote, Profile, Research) CRJ200 series regional jets, the Canadian aeroplane and train maker said on Wednesday.

The short-haul aircraft is for Northwest's Airlink operation and will be operated by Pinnacle Airlines, Bombardier said in a statement. It gave no price for the transaction.

Bombardier, the world's top maker of regional jets and third-largest civil aircraft maker, said Northwest has now ordered 139 of its CRJ200 jets. At the end of September, the CRJ program had firm orders for 1,410 aircraft. A 50-seat Bombardier CRJ200 jet operated by China Eastern airlines crashed into a frozen lake in Inner Mongolia on Sunday, killing 53 people on board and one on the ground. The cause of the crash is being investigated.

© Reuters 2004. All Rights Reserved.

 

[flagshipper]

Calm down buddy. Trust me no amount of growth will deter me from standing behind my mec. Who cares if you are a captain if the work rules still suck. Then you are being abused and making a few extra bucks. I am just shocked because I have mostly supported the side that 129 was gonna be it for a long time with the possibilty of losing some of those in the long run and don't even get me started on the united express bid crap. I will be glad to have an extra 100 guys under me so I can go from getting junior manned every weekend to every other weekend

 

[John_W_Thompson]

Let's figure out what is likely to be true...

Sorry, shi++y subject, moving right along.

 

[Oakum_Boy]

You'd better go back to that Corellian Transport, before the MIB find out you're here...

 

[efiscompmon]

It's not the MIB he needs to worry about--It's the Imperial Navy.

"Dangerous to your starfleet, Admiral; not to this battlestation"


BTW, the NWA LOA cap was for 50 seaters only--we can have as many 44-seaters as they want

 

[John_W_Thompson]

Oh you're just jealous .

http://www.freewebs.com/jwt0bos/Falcon Orbit.gif

(can't get it to work)

 

[efiscompmon]

What is that? An AA MD80 on short final to DEN?

 

[SELCAL checks]

Just heard some grumblings about an increase in the captain upgrade minimums at Pinnacle to 5k TT. reality or rumor?

 

[DoinTime]

Just heard some grumblings about an increase in the captain upgrade minimums at Pinnacle to 5k TT. reality or rumor?

rumor...bad one at that

 

[Lear70]

You never know. TM has been talking for a LONG time that he doesn't like the upgrade minimums being as low as they are. With the accident last month there's no telling what may come down the pipeline... Insurance is a b*tch!


Personally, I'd like to see a policy that requires someone to have seen at least two winters in this aircraft, regardless of total time, but that's just me and my aversion to cold-weather flying (not to mention the aircraft we've slid off runways, into snow embankments, and other incidents that haven't made the news in the last few years here).

 

[T-Gates]

You never know. TM has been talking for a LONG time that he doesn't like the upgrade minimums being as low as they are. With the accident last month there's no telling what may come down the pipeline... Insurance is a b*tch!

Well considering Jesse had over 6700 hours, I don't know how much of a factor the accident should have in a TT increase for upgrade. (But that follows logic, which insurance companies don't have a history of using) TM's own personal adgenda is a different story, because he never minced words on his views on that. But then again I heard him and PD say many, many times that PCL would never see street captains again under thier watch.....

 

[jtf]

What are the current upgrade mins? Trans States are 4000TT and 2000 multi and I believe that CHQ has 2500TT and I'm not sure the multi mins. I know Trans States has the higher mins for cheaper insurence and if there are an abundance of pilots with the mins to upgrade when needed I wouldn't be surprised if any airline didn't raise them up to save some insurence premiums in the current environment.

 

[DoinTime]

What are the current upgrade mins? Trans States are 4000TT and 2000 multi and I believe that CHQ has 2500TT and I'm not sure the multi mins. I know Trans States has the higher mins for cheaper insurence and if there are an abundance of pilots with the mins to upgrade when needed I wouldn't be surprised if any airline didn't raise them up to save some insurence premiums in the current environment.

3500 TT, 2000 Multi, 1000 Turbine.

Reduceable hour for hour up to 500 hours for time in aircraft at the company.

If they did raise the TT requirements to 5000 hours they would have to go stricktly to street captains as only a few of our FO's have that kind of time. Most of them are FO's because of reasons other than seniority.