Comair

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Comair
IATA
OH		 ICAO
COM		 Callsign
Comair
Founded 1977
Hubs Cincinnati-N. KY Int'l Airport
John F. Kennedy Int'l Airport
Focus cities / secondary hubs Boston Logan Int'l Airport, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta Int'l Airport
Frequent flyer program SkyMiles
Member lounge Crown Room Club
Alliance SkyTeam
Fleet size 168
Destinations 110
Parent company Delta Air Lines, Inc.
Headquarters Erlanger, Kentucky
Key people Don Bornhorst (President)
Website: http://www.comair.com/

Comair is a wholly owned subsidiary of Delta Air Lines based in Erlanger, Kentucky, USA, a city near the Cincinnati-Northern Kentucky International Airport, which serves Cincinnati, Ohio. Comair is one of the world's largest regional airlines, operating under the name Delta Connection to a large number of destinations in the USA, Canada, Mexico and the Bahamas.

It also operates some flights from Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. Recently Comair opened bases in Greensboro North Carolina, New York JFK and reopened its base in Orlando, Florida.

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[edit] History

The airline was established in March 1977 and started operations in April 1977. It was founded by Patrick J. Sowers, Robert T. Tranter, David Mueller and his father Raymond in Cincinnati and began scheduled services with two Piper Navajo aircraft. Under its parent Comair Holdings, it became a public company in July 1981 to support the growth and capital requirements to upgrade their fleet. It became a Delta Connection carrier in 1984. In July 1986 Delta Air Lines acquired 20% of Comair stock. Delta Air Lines acquired full ownership on 22 October 1999 at a cost of over 2 billion dollars.

On March 26, 2001, Comair's pilots went on strike. The strike cancelled the airlines flights and grounded its fleet. The strike ended after a new contract was agreed to 89 days later. Comair came to nationwide attention in the United States during Christmas 2004 when it cancelled all of its 1,160 flights for Saturday December 25 and Sunday December 26, stranding 30,000 people, many of them never reaching their destination for the holidays. The reason for this was the computer system that handled flight crew assignments had a hard coded limit of changes for a month. This was reached during December 2004 due to weather in the Cincinnati area.

On September 14, 2005, Comair's parent company Delta Air Lines, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, forcing Comair into bankruptcy along with it. Comair announced that would cut costs by $70 million annually. These savings are to be achieved by aircraft, flight, and employee reductions.

[edit] Destinations

[edit] Domestic Destinations

[edit] International Destinations

[edit] Fleet

Comair CRJ-100ER
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Comair CRJ-100ER

The following aircraft are operated by Comair as of August 2006 [1] :

Type Fleet Seats Aircraft Information
Bombardier CRJ-100ER 68 40 or 50 seats
Bombardier CRJ-100LR 41
Bombardier CRJ-200ER 40
Bombardier CRJ-700ER 27 70

[edit] Incidents and accidents

[edit] External links

[edit] References

  1. ^ Flight International, 3-9 October 2006


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