Bend over PDT.

[PropPiedmont]

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QUOTE (FM2436 @ Mar 18 2009, 05:26 PM)
Notice anything unusual about this dash-8 parked in SBY???

Yes. The engines and props are still attached. Oh, and the tail hasn't been removed. That spot is usually reserved for a Dash that's being parted out.

 

[robbedagain]

with EN parking some 11 aircraft this fall, what will the en cities be like after that, including those that handle mainline flight

 

[airbrush]

with EN parking some 11 aircraft this fall, what will the en cities be like after that, including those that handle mainline flight

With PDT already providing ramp and gate services in stations where no PDT aircraft ever lands (like STL, and including a recent bid for Tucson), it makes you wonder if they aren't being positioned to be the station ops arm of Express division. I think they own something like 33 Dashes, which would avoid the lease-renewal issues, but these days everything is for sale. I guess time will tell; "interesting times" ahead regardless.

 

[john john]

With PDT already providing ramp and gate services in stations where no PDT aircraft ever lands (like STL, and including a recent bid for Tucson), it makes you wonder if they aren't being positioned to be the station ops arm of Express division. I think they own something like 33 Dashes, which would avoid the lease-renewal issues, but these days everything is for sale. I guess time will tell; "interesting times" ahead regardless.

Watch out small and medium stations CWA and Piedmont and the company may work out a deal whipsawing the work at small and medium stations and keeping CWA on the property.The company gets cheap express pay and benefits and CWA gets due paying membership
Win win expect for the mainline employees

 

[sidelined70]

I heard that Piedmont is in the plans to start a training department out west?

 

[airbrush]

Flash forward to September 2009. PIT mainline flights are reduced below Class B status, and EN picks up the contract to handle ground service. Now, they can hire non-union employees at 1/2 the wage, build up 70 and 86 seat Express service to CLT, PHL, and DCA, and maybe even return some Florida flights (JS and Repugnant) to increase revenues, and write off the legacy costs of the bag belt system and leases to another division of the company. All of the sudden, PIT is no longer a drain on the mainline balance sheet because the real costs are on EN's balance sheet.

I actually heard that this rumor is in circulation...that mainline will be out of PIT this year and the whole station "expressed". No facts or documentation (that I know of) to back it up, but for those of us who remember PIT from the 80s and 90s, with I think 500 flights/day, it seems almost surreal. The pain in this business just doesn't seem to end....but now that we have been joined by other industries, where do you go?