"Big Announcement" about ATL hub for ASA tomorrow

[sweptback]

I can only assume it's bad news. Good news just doesn't happen to ASA pilots.

I'm not being pessimistic, either, just realistic. In the last 4 years or so, name one bit of good news for our pilot group? I can't either.

 

[CaptainZero]

Just off the top of my head, i'd say a major realignment of the flying in ATL.

 

[79%N1]

Um....that one thing, lets see.....no wait, I got it!!! Nope. Your right, I got nothing!

 

[FmrFreightDog]

I can only assume it's bad news. Good news just doesn't happen to ASA pilots.

I'm not being pessimistic, either, just realistic. In the last 4 years or so, name one bit of good news for our pilot group? I can't either.

Well, let's see....

-"We're getting the Frontier flying" ahhhh...
-"We're getting 900s" hmmm...
-"We're opening a Salt Lake base" well...
-"We're opening an LA base" or not...

Yeah, doesn't look particularly good.

 

[jacksjj]

This bleauxs....

 

[~~~^~~~]

Didn't they have some standard "State of the Company" type meeting scheduled anyway? I thought this was the third and last of a series of meetings that they have every year about this time.

I think the news has been so consistently bad at ASA that we are all a little paraniod. I worry about the 40 CRJ200's that are still on Delta's books and could be dumped before the bankruptcy exit.

The ramp has actually improved and the schedules, although brutal, are efficient for the company. Add in the new hires and the turnover amongst the senior pilots finding work elsewhere the cost of longevity must also be going down.

The announcement might also be a "take it or leave it" contract proposal. Comair's deal shifted the ground where both parties had drawn lines in the sand.

With the incredible instability at our level of this industry, anything is possible.

 

[TOOL CRIB]

The announcement might be a "take it or leave it" contract proposal.

I second that. They're probably hooking the carrot on the stick right now.

 

[viper01]

Did anyone notice that this meeting is on the vote deadline for Cmr.

 

[wickedpilot]

Could be a change to our pass benefits. That topic has been status quo for a while now (S3C etc).

 

[79%N1]

....and we have lots of opportunities to bid for flying outside of Delta!