Compass Airlines (Amerika Utara)
Compass Airlines, LLC adalah sebuah maskapai penerbangan regional Amerika yang berkantor pusat di Delta Air Lines Gedung C di Bandara Internasional Minneapolis-Saint Paul di Fort Snelling, Hennepin, Minnesota;[2][3] sebelum 16 Desember 2009, berkantor pusat di Fairfax County, Virginia, Amerika Serikat, timur Chantilly CDP.[4][5][6] Maskapai ini meluncurkan layanan perdana dengan satu pesawat Bombardier CRJ-200 di bawah merek Northwest Airlink antara Minneapolis/St. Paul dan Washington, D.C. pada 2 Mei 2007. Pada 21 Agustus 2007, ia mulai menerbangkan dua Embraer E175 pesawat 76 penumpang, dan diperluas menjadi 36 pesawat pada Desember 2008.
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| Didirikan | 28 September 2006 | ||||||
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| Mulai beroperasi | 2 Mei 2007 | ||||||
| Berhenti beroperasi | 5 April 2020 | ||||||
| AOC # | C77A868L[1] | ||||||
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| Program penumpang setia | AAdvantage (American) SkyMiles (Delta) WorldPerks (Northwest) | ||||||
| Aliansi | Oneworld (American) SkyTeam (Delta & Northwest) | ||||||
| Armada | 56 | ||||||
| Tujuan | 50 | ||||||
| Perusahaan induk | Trans States Holdings | ||||||
| Kantor pusat | Bandara Internasional Minneapolis-Saint Paul Fort Snelling, Minnesota | ||||||
| Tokoh utama | Rick Leach (President and CEO) | ||||||
| Karyawan | 2,000 | ||||||
| Situs web | compassairline.com | ||||||
Sebelumnya, maskapai ini merupakan anak perusahaan yang sepenuhnya dimiliki oleh Northwest Airlines dan kemudian Delta Air Lines, pada Juli 2010, perusahaan tersebut dijual ke Trans States Holdings. Pada saat itu, Kompas adalah satu-satunya maskapai yang tersisa dari bekas Grup Maskapai Northwest.[7]
Selama 14 tahun sejarahnya, Compass Airlines mengoperasikan lebih dari 1,5 juta penerbangan. Puncakny terjadi pada tahun 2016 ketika Kompas mengoperasikan 62 pesawat dan mempekerjakan lebih dari 2.000 karyawan.
Kompas menghentikan operasinya pada 5 April 2020, dengan alasan berkurangnya permintaan perjalanan yang berasal dari pandemi COVID-19, bersama dengan upaya kepemilikan mereka yang gagal untuk mengamankan penerbangan tambahan. Maskapai ini menghentikan operasinya dalam waktu seminggu setelah perusahaan saudara mereka, Trans States Airlines, meninggalkan GoJet Airlines sebagai satu-satunya maskapai penerbangan yang dioperasikan oleh Trans States Holdings.
Sejarah
Compass Airlines was a regional airline formed as a result of a contract dispute between Northwest Airlines and its pilots' union, the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA). The Northwest Airlines pilot group was asked to give relief on a section of their collective bargaining agreement governing "scope", which protects pilot jobs by ensuring that an airline's customers are flown by the employees of that airline. The pilots eventually agreed to a concession on the scope of their contract allowing a limited number of 76-seat aircraft to be flown by outsourced pilots working for a subcontractor regional airline. In exchange for their concession the Northwest Airlines pilots demanded in return that the pilots of these new aircraft would eventually "flow-up" into mainline pilot jobs at Northwest Airlines and that Northwest Airlines pilots would retain the ability to "flow-down" into the newly subcontracted pilot jobs in the event that Northwest Airlines were to furlough the mainline pilots.
In order to adapt to the agreement, and fulfill a need to serve the regional markets with smaller, more efficient aircraft and a dramatically reduced wage labor force, Northwest bought the operating certificate of bankrupt Independence Air on March 10, 2006, for $2 million. During the concept phase, the subsidiary was known as "NewCo". Compass' operations were limited to 76-seat aircraft or less, due to the language in the pilot contract at the mainline carrier.
On September 28, 2006, Compass Airlines officially received approval from the United States Department of Transportation to begin operations. On April 5, 2007, Compass Airlines received FAA certification to begin commercial passenger operations with a single CRJ-200 (N601XJ).[8]
On May 2, 2007, the airline had its first revenue flight from Washington Dulles International Airport to Minneapolis−Saint Paul International Airport,[9] which maintained the operating certificate. Compass implemented Embraer operations on August 21, 2007.
On July 1, 2010, Delta Air Lines announced that it sold Compass Airlines to Trans States Holdings for US$20.5 million.[10] Despite the change in ownership, Compass still shared many things with its former parents, including being headquartered in a Delta-owned building, and a logo that was a modified version of the final Northwest Airlines logo.
On March 27, 2015, the airline began flying one of twenty brand new Embraer E-175, operating for American Airlines under the American Eagle brand, with the initial flight being from Los Angeles International Airport to Houston Intercontinental Airport.
In August 2019, Delta Air Lines made the decision to reduce the number of regional carriers that fly under the Delta Connection brand and terminated its agreement for regional flying with Compass Airlines.[11] This resulted in the removal of 36 aircraft from the airline and reduced the number of aircraft flying for Compass Airlines from 56 to 20 by June 2020.[12] This schedule was later accelerated to remove all Delta-owned Embraer E175s from the Compass operation by April 1, 2020.
Compass had maintenance bases in Phoenix, San Jose, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Seattle/Tacoma prior to its closure.[13]
In January 2020, Compass announced that it would be closing its Phoenix crew base. The following month, the airline announced in a memo to employees that its Seattle-Tacoma crew base would also be closing.
In March 2020, due to the reduction in demand in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Compass announced it would cease operations on April 7.[14] The final revenue flight operated by Compass was American Eagle Flight 6047 from Tulsa, Oklahoma to Los Angeles, California on April 5, 2020.
The airline had originally planned to be acquired by Breeze Airways. The acquisition was later canceled.[15]
- ^ "Federal Aviation Administration - Airline Certificate Information - Detail View". av-info.faa.gov. Diakses tanggal 2019-06-27.
- ^ "Expanded Branch and ATM Access Comes to the Twin Cities Diarsipkan 2012-03-18 di Wayback Machine.." Wings Financial. Retrieved on January 19, 2012. "Delta Air Lines Bldg. C* 7500 Airline Drive Minneapolis, MN"
- ^ "delta air lines' farmers market-building c." Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. Retrieved on January 19, 2012. "Location: MSP Airport-Delta Building C, North Side near Compass Airlines Entrance"
- ^ "About Us Diarsipkan July 11, 2007, di Wayback Machine.." Compass Airlines. Retrieved on September 26, 2009 and on December 18, 2009.
- ^ "Chantilly CDP, Virginia Diarsipkan June 28, 2009, di Wayback Machine.." U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved on September 26, 2009.
- ^ "Fort Snelling UT, Hennepin county, Minnesota Diarsipkan 2012-01-19 di WebCite." U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved on December 19, 2009.
- ^ Polek, Gregory. "Delta sells Mesaba, Compass subsidiaries". Aviation International News (dalam bahasa Inggris). Diakses tanggal 2021-08-09.
- ^ Compass Airlines Receives DOT & FAA Approval To Begin Operations (USA Today: April 6, 2007)
- ^ Northwest Airlines' Subsidiary Compass Takes Off (New York Times: May 2, 2007)
- ^ "Delta to sell Mesaba and Compass for $82.5 million". Flightglobal.com. 1 July 2010. Diakses tanggal 1 July 2010.
- ^ "Delta Ends Contracts with Compass and GoJet – Aeronautics". Diakses tanggal Nov 4, 2019.
- ^ Hemmerdinger, Jon (2019-08-06). "Delta to terminate Compass and GoJet partnerships". Flightglobal.com (dalam bahasa Inggris). Diakses tanggal 2019-09-05.
- ^ "Compass Airlines - Maintenance". compassairline.com. 2016. Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal January 9, 2017. Diakses tanggal January 8, 2017.
- ^ Josephs, Leslie (March 19, 2020). "Regional US airline Compass shutting down as coronavirus presents 'insurmountable obstacles'". CNBC.
- ^ "Breeze Airways again changes its debut plans". Airway (dalam bahasa Inggris). 2020-08-19. Diakses tanggal 2020-08-29.