sailingfun

Clearly you never flew on the flights in question. The Mesa operation in JFK was not just bad it was horrific. No one at Mesa seemed to care at all about the Delta customers and it was hurting Delta badly at JFK. What would you do in that situation? I can't tell you how many times I was trying to get home or up to JFK and flights would be delayed forever only to be canceled hours later because they could not find a crew. I was going to work one day and the flight arrived about 5 minutes late for a 35 minute turn. I know all the agents were I commute from and I mentioned to the agent how nice it would be to leave ontime on this flight for a chance. She looked at me and said don't hold your breath. Sure enough both pilots and the flight attendant walked off the aircraft to go eat! This was a flight leaving around 11:30am. I stuck up for the crew with the agent and explained that they had probably been working since 5 am and you have to eat at some point. She said. Please, this happens all the time. They started their day flying here on a 9:30 departure. They came back after 40 minutes and the flight left 30 minutes late.
In a lounge show Delta said Mesa was not near the required completion rate even when you take out all the flights Delta canceled to thin the operation during bad weather. Read the article carefully. It does not say that Delta counted those flights. The disputed flights are for other reasons.

SilverandSore

Dude you crack me up. I didn't realize Pinnacle had a cheerleading squad...

Airsupport

man. if you guys would read and comprehend you would see i am not refering to pinnacle being safe at all. my buddy is in management at asa. he has recently found out that they are about to have to make some big cuts because delta has told them that they don't need their services anymore in several areas and that the jobs will be done by guys at mainline corporate. same goes for comair and skywest. the reason i didn't mention pinnacle is because delta has been doing that stuff for us since day one. we haven't been flying for delta nearly as long as the other dci guys. so we dont have the kind of staff for the delta side like the other regionals. once again i am not refering to pilots, fa's, etc etc. i am talking about the guys who are incharge of fuel quality control, inventory control, etc, etc. those guys at asa, comair, and skywest are the ones that will be on the street soon.

so no its not a pinnacle cheerleading squad. its a guy venting because one of his good friends is already having to let people go before the merger has even taken place. and this is exactly what daddy delta said wouldn't happen.

Justdoinmyjob

What you don't seem to understand is that Delta was only talking about mainline employees not losing their jobs. They weren't even talking about NW employees. I know that may be a hard pill to swallow, but what led you to believe that anyone at a subcontractor would be safe?