skywatch

Hate to inject reality into what is this fun Office Space thing, but go back and re-read the memo. IT is not going away; just the help desk. There will still be IT staff in CVG, but all help desk calls will be fielded in MSP.

Not the first to go either; they announced months ago that supply chain (finance) would be eliminated at the wholly owneds and would be done at the mainline DL level.

With formation of RHS, and elimination of Customer Service, expect to see reductions in HR, IT, and Finance in future as Comair goes from employing 6000 to half that.

Now return you to your regularly scheduled (if accuracy challenged) rants.

Pilotguy143

Does anyone have a list of N-numbers in the Comair fleet?

BitterOHFO

Canadair Regional Jet Production list - Airfleets

You have to go page by page but it has the ship# and n#

CRJFixer

Do we even have 13 -900's ? Thats what it says on there

CRJFixer

It a little out of date, 7398 says its stored...but they cut it up about a month ago. Hell I might be drinking this beer out of it as we speak

H46Bubba

Yes and we pay the leases not Delta! That means they can't play musical airplanes with them.

Pilotguy143

Thanks! This really helps.

BlueMoon

I love it! I love hearing while out flying that Comair is saving Delta because Comair turned a profit and Delta didn't.....Different pockets of the same pair of pants (or Jacket, shirt, or shorts).

H46Bubba

Very true. It basically comes out a wash, but Comair is required to pay the bills on all aircraft leases, and to vendors which comes out of our profit margin. It's basically Delta paying us an allowance! We get a little extra scratch from MRO which is also a wash since most of it comes from Delta through Mesaba. Our line maintenance MRO at GSO, CVG, JFK, and BOS (from non w/o regionals) and Air Wisconsin engine repair work is our only true profit not traced back to Delta. With the CS contracts transfering over to REAS at the end of the month with CS, it takes away a little bit from our profit margin.

Any transfer of aircraft leased by Comair would require approval by the leasor. We actually had Bombardier refuse a transfer of one of our -200's to Pinnacle. It's still flying for us today! That's also the reason they didn't take away more -700's on that last RFP. Delta could only award those that were leased by Delta, which left the 15 leased by Comair.

CRJFixer

Bubba,
I heard a rumor that Air Wisconsin was unhappy with there service they are getting from ExelTech, they beat us out on the heavy contract. rumor is the contract is subject to cancelation after the end of the year. Any word if we are gonna try to get that work??