Something up at OH

[samballs]

Something up at Comair

Just cancelled the vacancy bid,

2007-05 Pilot Vacancy AwardThe award of Vacancy Bid 2007-05 will be delayed until further notice. We will follow up with more information later next week.


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[KingAirKiddo]

Maybe they need to make it a larger bid for higher than expected attrition. Yeah, right! I'm sure we'll get screwed one way or the other...

 

[Speedtape]

Just cancelled the vacancy bid,

2007-05 Pilot Vacancy AwardThe award of Vacancy Bid 2007-05 will be delayed until further notice. We will follow up with more information later next week.


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In the AJC article, Delta announced that they would be retiring 35 Regional Jets after the first of the year along with some mainline airplanes.

Is anyone familiar with the Delta Scope? I know that for every increase in one mainline plane, the scope allows for an increase of 3 Regional Jets. Does the scope work in reverse in the inverse of this condition? For every mainline plane retired, are 3 regional jets required to be eliminated?

 

[V-1]

Yet another morale booster for the employee group.

Kind of like charging employees $20 for tickets to the company holiday party.

 

[Ifly4money]

I'm sure it can't have anything to do with no one showing up for new hire classes.

Last Monday was supposed to have 14. 3 showed up.

Maybe low pay plus poor QOL is having an effect on recruiting.

 

[Big Foot]

It's because they are busy with all the new hires they cant get to upgrades. I mean like 6 new hires a month they must be swamped over there.

 

[dbo861]

In the AJC article, Delta announced that they would be retiring 35 Regional Jets after the first of the year along with some mainline airplanes.

Is anyone familiar with the Delta Scope? I know that for every increase in one mainline plane, the scope allows for an increase of 3 Regional Jets. Does the scope work in reverse in the inverse of this condition? For every mainline plane retired, are 3 regional jets required to be eliminated?

I'm betting this has something to do with it. Why not take planes from the regional you own so as to not piss off one of your contracted regional affiliates. Besides, Comair does have some of the oldest RJs around.

 

[skyslug]

I believe the reduction of the 35 regional jets has much to do with CHQ and their 135's going, plus some of OH's bankrupcy lease return planes.

As for the vacancy bid, it never said cancellation...just delayed. It's my theory that with all the folks leaving and that have left this has severly effected the bid awards and it needs to be rerun. Just a guess, hoping that's the reason why and that it doesn't end up being cancelled!

 

[PA44Jockey]

NetJets TA passed today. Watch the attrition spike this month.

 

[samballs]

It's because they are busy with all the new hires they cant get to upgrades. I mean like 6 new hires a month they must be swamped over there.

For those guys over there 6 a month is busy they have to stop showing pictures and eating donuts, so they can go hurry us thru the sim.

Anyways when Comair has bad news they tell us right away, kind of Daves way of saying see your too high cost, when its good news or nothing special they act like this.

 

[dbo861]

I believe the reduction of the 35 regional jets has much to do with CHQ and their 135's going, plus some of OH's bankrupcy lease return planes.

As for the vacancy bid, it never said cancellation...just delayed. It's my theory that with all the folks leaving and that have left this has severly effected the bid awards and it needs to be rerun. Just a guess, hoping that's the reason why and that it doesn't end up being cancelled!

Why would they postpone this because so many people are leaving? The bid packets for January said to expect another vacancy bid late December. They could have just adjusted that bid as necessary. I guess we'll just have to see. I just don't have a good feeling about this. Maybe they're just having cold feet about upgrading so many pilots when they can't get anyone to show up for classes and they're worried about being short on FOs. (As if that would be a bad thing

 

[AvJunke]

Anyways when Comair has bad news they tell us right away, kind of Daves way of saying see your too high cost, when its good news or nothing special they act like this.[/quote]

How would we know how they handle disclosing good news? There hasn't been any in five years.

 

[samballs]

Anyways when Comair has bad news they tell us right away, kind of Daves way of saying see your too high cost, when its good news or nothing special they act like this.

How would we know how they handle disclosing good news? There hasn't been any in five years.[/quote]

Thats true, the only thing that could be good news would be JC quit and Soap got fired

 

[Hovernut]

The last 'hold' time between vacancy cancellations was 7 months. That's when the 900s were awarded. I gotta go with the chance that the 'spreadsheet boyz' see the 35 parked A/C and believe a good chunk of that will be parked in Old Remote!

I just hope I make it through the currently awarded vacancy before they do more triage!

 

[wmuflyguy]

Fat on FO's my a$$...I got JM'ed last night.

 

[CRJ puppy]

And why did you answer your phone?

I know I didn't when they called me two nights ago!

 

[wmuflyguy]

And why did you answer your phone?

I know I didn't when they called me two nights ago!

I was on a trip and it was there when I went to check out...automatically notifies you.