CaptKrunch

ASA is not the only company who has tossed the thought of a CAE base against the wall. PSA PDT and AWC are a few others.

jstyle13

Don't hold your breath on a new ASA domicile anytime soon.....

TP199

you can expect 200 more furloughs (when we park 20 planes next spring) before you can expect a new crew base

John Pennekamp

Knowing what and who I know, I SERIOUSLY doubt that is going to happen. Let's hear your sources. (Or are you the source?)

TP199

i am THE SOURCE. that is what you can refer to me as. haha. my source is the memo that came out on december 29th under the "crj 900 news" section on ourasa that says "As part of this agreement with Delta, we will also remove 20 CRJ200 aircraft from our fleet beginning Spring
2010."

TP199

i like your source better than mine. he has better news. i hope your source isnt RP. he has some very optimistic projections.

John Pennekamp

RP? no. My sources are very high, and know what they're talking about. And I'm not talking about what they say in the crew lounge or in recurrent, I'm talking about what they say privately. They are not worried about placing the 20 airplanes and are very optimistic about future growth opportunities in other bases, flying for airlines other than DAL. That is after we make it through this year successfully.

TP199

being optimistic and having a plan in place are two entirely separate things. everybody at this airline is optimistic. but the reality is that we have really bad performance numbers, continually rank last in the aqi, and we are very inefficient overall as a company. example. we were scheduled to deadhead and fly the plane back to atl. the crew on the plane was flying to the outstation and deadheading back. ive been talkin about this and it seems a few other people have had this stuff happen to them as well. the parking lot is another example. now they are gonna have to pay extra for people to park in long term parking. its little stuff like this that really irritate me about this company. and there was the mx issue. i dont know what happened there but it doesnt sound good.

now assuming that these "other companies" that want 20 more 50 seaters (doesnt seem likely in my opinion), why wouldnt they just increase block hours among all the contract carriers that they already have in place, instead of bringing in a new company. i know xjt has a bunch of planes parked (i think it was somewhere in LA) so if youre thinking Continental, why wouldn't they give extra flying to xjt. and im sure skywest has a big enough operation to expand united flying if they needed it.

i hope i'm wrong because it seems that i am the only one who doesn't have growth and prosperity in asa's future.

Gunga Galunga

One of the most common complaints about ASA is the companies lack of foresight. Everything is planned for the minute with no thought to the future and how it might turn out. Great recent example is the parking mess with overflow into the long term parking lot. Probably the summer is going to be a complete mess at the current staffing levels. More flights than last summer +10 airplanes - 80 pilots will = not much flexibility in schedules for those working

As for rumors, who knows what will happen but JP was one of the first to start calling truth to furlough rumors post New Years.

TP199

well both of us are hoping he's right this time too.