Pinnacle LGA and BOS bases closing

[PropDriver]

Thought this deserved it's own thread:

We notified US Airways of our intention to eliminate the majority of our
US pro-rate flying later this year. Specifically:

Colgan’s US Airways Boston (BOS) operation, which has five lines of Saab
flying, will be reduced by two lines effective Oct. 1. Colgan will end
operations between BOS and Syracuse (SYR), and reduce BOS to Albany (ALB)
service. The remaining BOS markets are Essential Air Services (EAS)
cities; Plattsburgh (PBG), Presque Isle (PQI) and Bar Harbor (BHB). We’ve
communicated our intent to exit these markets, but due to EAS regulations,
we will remain in there until we fulfill our obligations. This will likely
occur in early 2012.

Mesaba’s US Airways New York LaGuardia (LGA) operation (six lines of Saab
flying) will end on Dec. 23. With the pending approval of the Delta/US
Airways slot swap, we knew we’d have to drop this flying. This is
essentially a timeline acceleration.
Colgan will continue to operate 19 weekly roundtrips for US Airways
between Charleston (CRW) and Washington, D.C. (DCA).

 

[CFIT99]

so...what does this mean to someone starting class on monday?

 

[GlenA]

ruh-roh shraggy!.....

 

[ClarkGriswold]

so...what does this mean to someone starting class on monday?

Well since BOS isnt closing until 2012 they will still use you guys in IAD like planned.

 

[CFIT99]

Well since BOS isnt closing until 2012 they will still use you guys in IAD like planned.

thats what I thought...hopefully this won't be too bad

 

[B200 Hawk]

Sounds like they should just be absorbed with how understaffed 9E is, this correct?

 

[ClarkGriswold]

Sounds like they should just be absorbed with how understaffed 9E is, this correct?

Hoping thats the case!!! Thats what they made it sound like today in the teleconference.

 

[jynxyjoe]

And just like that we are... still understaffed.

CEO's don't let CEO's do at-risk-flying.

 

[ctab5060X]

And just like that we are... still understaffed.

CEO's don't let CEO's do at-risk-flying.

Hopefully all the shakeups are the result of everything shifting as the ship is being righted and not the result of the ship going keel up...

 

[PropDriver]

Hopefully all the shakeups are the result of everything shifting as the ship is being righted and not the result of the ship going keel up...

Yeah I hope it means that they want to staff the current and/or future airplanes that make the company money

 

[v1valarob]

so...what does this mean to someone starting class on monday?

Nothing, trust me. All I'm gonna say is, this company is well aware of their staffing situation, they have no intention of stopping the hiring, even with base closing.

 

[Teller1900]

What's this going to do to the poor CRW guys? They're already isolated as it is, but when they start pulling US Airways paint schemes out of service, are they going to have ANY spares down there? Or will it be a 100% CA America base?

 

[v1valarob]

What's this going to do to the poor CRW guys? They're already isolated as it is, but when they start pulling US Airways paint schemes out of service, are they going to have ANY spares down there? Or will it be a 100% CA America base?

They rarely get Airways paint as it is. We'll be all white XJ planes soon. 5 more by the end of the year.

 

[OldTownPilot]

Why would you be getting more planes when you are losing them out of BOS?

 

[Gonzo]

I asked in the other thread but I will also ask here: How many pilots do you have on the Saab? Are IAD, IAH and CRW going to be the only Saab bases? How many are based at IAD, IAH, CRW?

 

[L-16B]

Why would you be getting more planes when you are losing them out of BOS?

Because we are replacing them with b+ and no more Colgan means no more cpt america

 

[v1valarob]

I asked in the other thread but I will also ask here: How many pilots do you have on the Saab? Are IAD, IAH and CRW going to be the only Saab bases? How many are based at IAD, IAH, CRW?

Not enough. We are still taking crew cancellations.

 

[Louie1975]

So why is Colgan choosing to drop Boston? I thought we would lose EAS flying when the government stopped funding it, not when we just decide to stop it.

 

[ferguson354]

What's this going to do to the poor CRW guys? They're already isolated as it is, but when they start pulling US Airways paint schemes out of service, are they going to have ANY spares down there? Or will it be a 100% CA America base?

I think we have yet to see a US paint job here in CRW... Doesn't make any sense to do that with the closest MTX being IAD .

 

[crazyjaydawg]

So why is Colgan choosing to drop Boston? I thought we would lose EAS flying when the government stopped funding it, not when we just decide to stop it.

Because there are more lucrative contracts and not enough pilots to go around. So we're saying screw EAS before EAS can screw us and putting a band-aid on the bullet wound that is pilot staffing.