Why Was Comair Not Sold?

[Hovernut]

Comair was not sold because Delta is going to release an announcement about merging Comair with mainline.

Is this sarcasm or something heard on the grapevine? Not too far flung from the reports I've heard from the recent DAL/DCI ALPA MEC get-togethers, though I thought Compass & Mesaba would've been in the 'grand staple,' too.

 

[wmuflyguy]

Is this sarcasm or something heard on the grapevine? Not too far flung from the reports I've heard from the recent DAL/DCI ALPA MEC get-togethers, though I thought Compass & Mesaba would've been in the 'grand staple,' too.

Pipe dream

 

[WayBack]

Pipe dream

speak for yourself. Just wait.

 

[clarkwgriswald]

Comair was not sold because Delta is going to release an announcement about merging Comair with mainline.

Good one! I needed a laugh.

 

[rogerwilcoout]

Comair has always been first.....
First to fly all jets...
First to demand livable regional wages.....
First to be too costly compared to cheaper upstarts.....

The main issue is their is no barrier to new entrants in the regional market. You obtain some jets or borrow them from a mainline carrier, hire some cheap pilots (the cheaper the better so if you can offer flow through or free hotel makes compensation lower) and compete against established carriers.
I suppose the same happens at mainline but the timeline is much more drawn out.
Best of luck Comair,
Luv

Yup, I knew it was a matter of time before a regional pilot blames another regional pilot for a demise that has not even been realized yet. Too funny. Really. Your airline was the first. The first of many that caused this industry to change for the worst so don't even start.

 

[regionaltard]

Comair has always been first.....
First to fly all jets...
First to demand livable regional wages.....
First to be too costly compared to cheaper upstarts.....

The main issue is their is no barrier to new entrants in the regional market......

This. It's much easier to mock Comair than it is to admit that we as an industry simply failed to man up and build on what they accomplished.

 

[Bugsmasher Plus]

That wasn't JC who caused the last 9 years...that was the sale and the systematic destruction of CVG and OH and 3rd rate mgt.

You were there with me I assume? I have a little different view of the MEC that forced the strike, and it's obviously not favorable. Of course, you are are talking the last nine years and I'm talking the three years prior to that where they could have had everything they wanted without the strike, but it is what it is and there is no sense of rehashing it now.

However, when somebody asks "Why was Comair not sold?" It's a direct result of what happened during he summer of 2001 and the continuing fallout ever since.

 

[N813CA]

according to Comair's president its because we are not marketable. We cost too much.

 

[atlcrashpad]

Comair was not sold because Delta is going to release an announcement about merging Comair with mainline.

Now dat is juan of duh funniest ones yet...... merger bouyyyyyyyyy.....

 

[Hootie9750]

You are my favorite poster on any aviation forum. Thank you atlcrashpad/flavaflav. May you never stop.

 

[IFLYASA]

When you buy Comair, you also buy the liability for the lawsuits from the crash. The lawsuits pending are probably the value of Comair, so that's why you really can't give Comair away.

Nobody will ever buy Comair until the lawsuits are settled. My guess is Delta will just phase them out, sadly.

 

[TJflyboy]

Only one lawsuit, and it a judge overturned a law in order for it to proceed, something with punitive damages in Kentucky, anyhow I doubt its a factor, one case open all others settled, I believe they have all been settled for quite sometime...

 

[Draginass]

Sounds like Comair and American Eagle are in the same predicament . . . unsaleable due to obsolete airplanes.

 

[B727FA]

You were there with me I assume? I have a little different view of the MEC that forced the strike, and it's obviously not favorable. Of course, you are are talking the last nine years and I'm talking the three years prior to that where they could have had everything they wanted without the strike, but it is what it is and there is no sense of rehashing it now.

However, when somebody asks "Why was Comair not sold?" It's a direct result of what happened during he summer of 2001 and the continuing fallout ever since.

Nobody "forced" you to walk. You ALWAYS had/have the choice to cross...if you didn't believe in it, why'd you walk? (Since you "were there...")

You don't get the privilege of 20/20 hind-sight b/c you don't like how it's gone "since then" when we, as a labor group, hold people with whom we don't agree (read SC&*#'s) DURING the labor action, to be FOREVER accountable for their actions then AND now.

BTW--surely you're not saying that the last 9 years HAVEN'T had *ANYTHING* to do with the sale/non-sale? Seriously? (Yes, he might be saying that...and don't call me "Shirley." In honor of the 30th Birthday of "Airplane!")

It's amazing, back then the OH drivers were "heros" and "drawing a line in the sand..." Now, they're vilified as (nearly) Mesa-esque. Please, understand, I think it's sick they took concessions for metal; but when it comes out in the wash, they had bigger balls then (and now) than most of the posers on here did when they were still creaming at the thought of flying for a living.

 

[B727FA]

Only one lawsuit, and it a judge overturned a law in order for it to proceed, something with punitive damages in Kentucky, anyhow I doubt its a factor, one case open all others settled, I believe they have all been settled for quite sometime...

You are correct...