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Comair's last flight today- company closes tomorrow.
Comair's last flight before shutting down is leaving at 2pm Cincy-Houston. Sad to see this close - was once Regional Airline of the Year. Helped usher in the regional jet explosion in the 90s and was a dominant player at CVG, employed 7000 people. A long time ago I worked Blue Team Ramp Operations and we had Brasilias, Saab 340s and Canadair Regional Jets - an exciting time. There was the disastrous Christmas scheduling snafu of 2004, and a pilots' strike. Execs says company never… (flightaware.com) Altro...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Amazing how Delta could turn a $2.3 Billion, yes with a B Billion dollar investment into nothing in such a short time. The demise of Comair is a testament to Delta management.
Flying on contracts and hauling passengers you don't sell tickets isn't a good business model. Can't control revenue or cost. The majors step on small companies, wipe up the blood, and wring it out into another small company; repeat.
Seems to me there was a p***ing contest got going there between them and DAL back during the DAL BR. It had to do with putting DAL laid off pilots to work and I'm thinking that DAL pilots kinda got horsey there too and DAL stood with them. When DAL started coming back strong, as you say, they just started wiping up the blood and this is the end result. As I said in another comment, I think DAL just did it because they could.
Amazing how Delta could turn a $2.3 Billion, yes with a B Billion dollar investment into nothing in such a short time. The demise of Comair is a testament to Delta management.
Well, somebody ticked somebody off and as DAL was the big dog, I think they took it down just to show that they could, whether it made any sense or not. I remember that bus ride too and sometimes not even having to make it, when I had ComAir on both legs. CVG ran like a well oiled machine and so did all the outlying stations. It beat the heck out of anything that is out there now. The people actually enjoyed their jobs, management treated them decent, and it showed.
It's definitely a shame that they had to close the CVG hub, I remember going out of the country for the first time 5 years ago, CVG-LGW. It was the only international flight I ever took that wasn't delayed. Living in Columbus, I remember the 30 min. roller coaster ride from CMH-CVG on the CRJ-200, good times. I think we were one of the last flights to arrive in concourse C. I still can't believe that they shut down the CVG hub instead of shutting down Memphis, because the facilities at CVG are a bit better in my opinion.
I worked for them for a while in Flint. Great company and people!