Comair ( Russian. Comair ) is a US regional airline, a wholly owned subsidiary of Delta Air Lines . The headquarters of the airline is located in Boone County ( Kentucky ), USA [1] [2] , the main hubs are Cincinnati International Airport / Northern Kentucky and John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York .
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Founding date | 1977 | |||
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Fleet size | 104 | |||
Destinations | 70 | |||
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Headquarters | Boone County , USA | |||
Manual | John Bendoraitis (John Bendoraitis) CEO | |||
Site | web.archive.org/web/2007… | |||
Comair is one of the largest regional airlines in the world with annual revenues of more than 1 billion US dollars . The operated fleet consists only of Bombardier CRJ airplanes of the Canadian firm Bombardier with a passenger capacity of up to one hundred people. Working under the brand Delta Connection Comair provides domestic and international transport to the cities of the United States of America , Canada , Mexico and the Bahamas [3] .
In late 2006, Comair opened a second hub at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK). The congestion at Kennedy Airport, the lack of infrastructure facilities for servicing aircraft and passengers were the main reasons for moving Comair to the last line in the punctuality rating of major US airlines as of late 2006. According to the 2008 survey, Comair , according to Americans, is the most non-punctual airline in the country, according to statistics, only 70% of its scheduled flights arrive in time to destination airports. [4] [5]
During 2007, Comair closed its transit hubs at Greensboro Airport ( North Carolina ) and a second time at Orlando International Airport ( Florida ), while the route network was transferred by Delta Air Lines parent airline to other regional carriers Atlantic Southeast Airlines (a subsidiary of SkyWest Inc. . ) and Chautauqua Airlines (a subsidiary of Republic Airways Holdings ). In early 2008, Delta Air Lines announced plans to reduce all Comair domestic flights by 4–5% with decommissioning from 8 to 14 Bombardier CRJ aircraft . In March 2008, the price of a barrel of oil reached $ 110, and it was announced that Comair would continue to reduce its domestic air routes.
History
Comair Airlines was founded in March 1977 by Patrick J. Sowers ( born Patrick J. Sowers ), Robert T. Tranter ( born Robert T. Tranter ), David Muller ( born David Mueller ) and his father Raymond ( born Robert Mueller ). Regular flights were opened in April 1977 and were initially operated on two Piper PA-31 Navajo airplanes, with the company's headquarters in Cincinnati . In 1984, Comair received the right to use the Delta Connection brand, in July 1986, Delta Air Lines acquired 20% of Comair's ownership, and on October 22, 1999, it bought it out for more than two billion US dollars [3] .
On March 26, 2001, Comair’s flight crew announced an indefinite strike, canceled all flights of the airline and discontinued ground handling of its aircraft. The strike lasted 89 days and was completed only after the signing of a new employment contract with the airline’s staff.
Comair once again attracted the attention of the entire country on the eve of the Christmas holidays of 2004, canceling 1,160 scheduled flights on Saturday 25 and Sunday 26 December. More than thirty thousand passengers were in a force majeure situation, many of them did not get to their destinations by the holiday time. The reasons for the cancellation of flights was a combination of two factors: a record amount of snowfall and flaws in the airline’s flight planning software. On the night of December 23-24, 2006, the Cincinnati area was hit by a blizzard, the highway to the airport was closed, the delivery of aviation fuel stopped and the airline was forced to cancel all flights on Friday December 24. After receiving everything necessary on the night of December 24-25, the airline began to launch a computerized flight planning system, which ended in a fatal software failure, which resulted in a massive cancellation of Comair flights.
On September 14, 2005, Delta Air Lines filed for bankruptcy of the airline itself along with its subsidiaries in accordance with the 11th chapter of the US Bankruptcy Code . During the bankruptcy procedure, Comair airline reduced costs in the amount of more than $ 70 million a year, mainly due to a decrease in the number of aircraft operated, a decrease in the number of flights and a decrease in the salaries of airline personnel.
On May 25, 2007, Comair announced the planned replacement of 14 CRJ-100 aircraft with a similar number of more modern CRJ-900 aircraft for the subsequent operation of the new fleet under the Delta Connection brand.
On February 10, 2009, Delta Air Lines announced the merging of ground handling services for Comair , Mesaba Airlines and Compass Airlines into a single unit for these companies, the Regional Handling Services (RHS) division, which will start operations from the 3rd quarter of 2009. RHS will be engaged in providing a full range of services, from booking tickets to baggage claim to passengers
Fleet
Comair fleet consists of the following airliners:
Aircraft | Total | Passengers | Directions | Note |
Bombardier CRJ-100 | 76 | 50 | All directions | |
Bombardier CRJ-700 | 15 | 70 | All directions | |
Bombardier CRJ-900 | 13 | 76 (12/64) |
Incidents and accidents
- October 8, 1979, flight 444 Hebron ( Kentucky ) - Nashville ( Tennessee ), Piper PA-31 Navajo , registration number N6642L. The plane crashed immediately after taking off from Cincinnati International Airport / Northern Kentucky . Killed all 8 people on board.
- January 9, 1997. Flight 3272 Cincinnati - Detroit , Embraer EMB-120RT Brasilia , registration number N265CA. When landing on the strip 3R airport Detroit Wayne Canti in a blizzard the plane went into a deep peak and crashed into a field. The reasons for the catastrophe were incorrect FAA standards for flight certification in icing conditions and the crew’s wrong decision to work in icing conditions at speeds close to the lower limit (with flaps not released). Killed all 29 people on board. [6] [7]
- March 19, 2001, flight 5054 Embraer EMB 120 Brasilia . No dead.
- August 27, 2006, flight 5191 Bombardier CRJ-100ER . Crashed immediately after taking off from Lexington Blue Grass Airport . Of the 50 people on board, only the co-pilot survived. According to experts, the cause of the crash was that the pilots were distracted by conversations and confused the runways, starting to take off from a shorter runway than is required for this type of aircraft [8] .
Links
Notes
- Care Career Area Archived May 21, 2008. . "
- " Comair reinstates safety program ."
- ↑ 1 2 Directory: World Airlines, Flight International .
- ↑ Archived copy . The appeal date is April 14, 2013. Archived on February 18, 2013.
- ↑ Mutzabaugh, Ben Delta partners, NYC airports (the unavailable link) (inaccessible link) . USA Today. Archived January 6, 2007.
- ↑ AirDisaster.Com. Accident Synopsis "01091997
- ↑ 1997
- ↑ http://www.taproot.com/archives/925 Comair Crash in Kentucky - Was the NTSB Investigation a Good Root Cause Analysis?