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Was Comair Strike a Success?

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B-J-J Fighter

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Do you think it was a success or not? Given the fact there are around 45 to 60 DCI carriers now was the CMR strike a good thing. They are smaller now and have taken pretty big concessions. Did they stick it to management???
 
Absolutely.....if all other groups had the guts of that group the profession would be much better off.

Too much has happened and it is too far in the future to ask that question IMO.
 
It most definitely was a success......for a little bit.


A success? Are you kidding me! The Comair strike was nothing short of a bunch of idiots that cost Delta a lot of money! They gained no significant gains to their contract. Comair pukes on here love to throw their shoulders back and state how important they are because they went on strike for 90 days! Big f-ing deal! Anyone can not go to work for 90 days! Anyone! The big question is what did they accomplish! I think if you look carefully you will find that the gains that were made were not significant, and fall far short of the pride they seem to be still pumped up on!
 
They won the battle, but lost the war. It opened Delta's eyes to the power of any one of their regionals, and they resolved to never let that happen again. Delta has 4 regionals, and we did not invade each other's territories: ASA in the south, Biz Ex in the northeast, Comair in the midwest, and Skywest in the west.

After the strike, we started flying into each other's hubs, and Delta started increasing the number of feeders.
 
I don't think the strike cost Delta as much as many believe. What I remember is that at that time about 75% of the cities served by Comair, ASA served from ATL. During their strike, our load factor was near 100% for those cities. Back then, fuel was cheap, and we were profitable at 60% load factor. Increase that LF to 100% and cut a majority of your costs by eliminating the flights to CVG and then rerouting all your pax through ATL.

Yes, it cost Delta money. If it had cost what people claim, I don't think it would have gone longer than a week. Now, we all get to reap the benefits of Delta's revised "Supply Chain Management".

What we really need is to get out from under the RLA.
 
A success? Are you kidding me! The Comair strike was nothing short of a bunch of idiots that cost Delta a lot of money! They gained no significant gains to their contract. Comair pukes on here love to throw their shoulders back and state how important they are because they went on strike for 90 days! Big f-ing deal! Anyone can not go to work for 90 days! Anyone! The big question is what did they accomplish! I think if you look carefully you will find that the gains that were made were not significant, and fall far short of the pride they seem to be still pumped up on!

Apparently your old contract was a dismal failure too because it cost Delta a lot of money - after all, you took how big of a pay cut? 50%, something like that, and gave away more scope? Ouch!
 
A success? Are you kidding me! The Comair strike was nothing short of a bunch of idiots that cost Delta a lot of money! They gained no significant gains to their contract. Comair pukes on here love to throw their shoulders back and state how important they are because they went on strike for 90 days! Big f-ing deal! Anyone can not go to work for 90 days! Anyone! The big question is what did they accomplish! I think if you look carefully you will find that the gains that were made were not significant, and fall far short of the pride they seem to be still pumped up on!

You are without a doubt an idiot's idiot. Delta cost Delta a lot of money due to poor decison making back in 2001. You have to say the Comair guys drew a line in the sand and stuck to what they believed in. In the short term it cost Delta a few hundred million and in the long term even today Comair is paying for it.

When have the pilots at Delta ever drew a line in the sand and said enough. Boy, you sure have protected your scope. How many more mainline pilots would be on your seniority list if you had stood up and said enough. Just take a look at concourse A&B in ATL. Sure are lots more RJ's parked at "mainline" gates than there used to be. Lets take a look at CVG this time next year, how many mainline planes will be parked at concourse A & B.

Even the Northwest guys kept their pension during bankruptcy. Why, because they have the balls you could only dream of having when you grow up. How's that pension working for you now at big D. Delta is still a great company, it is not the end all be all of aviation. History repeats itself and this merger will be no different. You will roll over like you have time and time again and give into management. You carpehead could take a lesson from the Comair guys. They have never bent over for management and taken table scraps while management ate the seven course meal.
 
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