Uh-Oh.... "Town Hall Meetings" at ASA

[Speedtape]

Concur. Pardon the metaphor, but this does have the potential to be the initial frontal passage of a perfect storm for the pilots at ASA. Inc. needs to make a profit to even be in the airline business. (With no profit, try this on for size: ASA sold back to DAL. Does anyone think that a good outcome for the pilots at ASA? Especially with what is happening at/to Comair?) The pilot group is and predictably will be highly resistant to a decrease in compensation or QOL. DAL frankly could care less about the employees of a separately owned subsidiary; costs are most important, followed at some distance by performance metrics. If push were to come to shove, who would win here?


However, what did you mean by 'push' for in two years?

1. ASA does not report profits.
2. Inc. reports profits.
3. Inc. will still report a profit in the first quarter--4-7million.
4. ASA cancelled 750 more flights than usual in the first quarter--that is HUGE when considering profitability.
5. The majority of those flights were cancelled because of the MTC grounding. That should be a one time event that will have some affect on the 2nd quarter, but none after that.
6. Apparently, there were more WX cancellations this quarter, this year, than 1st quarter last year.
7. Although the 1st quarter profits are pale in comparison to year over, most of the contributing factors are one time events.
8. The results of the fee for departure reset will affect INC. by about $5 million per quarter(this is composite of the operations of Skywest and ASA flights flown for Delta each quarter.)

So, under normal conditions, instead of making $146 million a year, with no other changes, the profits will be reduced to $126 million a year. The contracts all but guarantee INC. a profit, based on revenues--all INC. has to do is perform to some level, and also mangage and maintain costs. The sky is not falling in the West or the Southeast. But, costs are a high priority and pilots need to get ready for the frontal assault!

 

[Dubya]

You guys all sound pretty smart and informed, and I tend to see most of the points made in this thread. The problem is you guys have wasted 4 pages in intelligent discourse and have wasted a perfect opportunity to remind us all that Mesa sucks.

So, get with the program already.


W

 

[crj567]

Damn,
I almost forgot-

MESA SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[ACL65PILOT]

Two year before the year five in ASA's DCI contract. Start the push for PBS and concessions now so that in two years when they need to meet the metric they can.

 

[79%N1]

Did anybody attend?

Any news since we have been speculating?

 

[bigshooter107]

You guys are all wrong. We just reinserted DFW charts in our jepps. Dallas is opening back up!
Hoorah.

Atleast those memos did not say " What big changes at Delta mean to you " member that one.

and Mesa Sucks.

 

[JumpersAway]

You guys are all wrong. We just reinserted DFW charts in our jepps. Dallas is opening back up!
Hoorah.

Atleast those memos did not say " What big changes at Delta mean to you " member that one.

and Mesa Sucks.

lol- and how many Atlantians will be running from the overnights there. I always thought it was funny how the Dallas folks ran like hell to stay out of Atlanta, and the Atlanta folks ran like hell to keep out of Dallas, because of the airport and it's layout.

 

[Speedtape]

Two year before the year five in ASA's DCI contract. Start the push for PBS and concessions now so that in two years when they need to meet the metric they can.

YOU Betcha!

 

[ACL65PILOT]

You guys are all wrong. We just reinserted DFW charts in our jepps. Dallas is opening back up!
Hoorah.

Atleast those memos did not say " What big changes at Delta mean to you " member that one.

and Mesa Sucks.

I assume that is for your CVG-DFW runs.

FWIW, they are doing a lot of work under that DAL gates. Construction that is.

 

[CaribPilot]

So I guess no one on here actually went to the meeting?

 

[crjskipper]

speedtape, i think we cancelled many more flights in march than in april, and march was for wx. didnt we lose over 500 flights march 1? i think we cancelled less than 250 april 1 and 2. the bore-scope hurt much less than the snow did.

 

[maxcackel]

I was there for a few minutes. Just as advertised a town hall meeting. It was just a question and answer session as far as I could tell. The only thing I got out of it was much higher block hours for June. Tutt also said Total consciousness on our death bed for everyone, so at least we have that going for us.

 

[LazyLightnin']

I was there for a few minutes. Just as advertised a town hall meeting. It was just a question and answer session as far as I could tell. The only thing I got out of it was much higher block hours for June. Tutt also said Total consciousness on our death bed for everyone, so at least we have that going for us.

And is that scheduled for the fall?

 

[CaribPilot]

I was there for a few minutes. Just as advertised a town hall meeting. It was just a question and answer session as far as I could tell. The only thing I got out of it was much higher block hours for June. Tutt also said Total consciousness on our death bed for everyone, so at least we have that going for us.

What does that mean?

 

[LazyLightnin']

Hey, Tutt.. how bout a little something, ya know, for the effort.