Compass Airlines is a regional airline headquartered in unincorporated Fairfax County, Virginia, United States, east of the Chantilly CDP; the airline plans to relocate its headquarters to Minneapolis, Minnesota in 2009. It is a subsidiary of Delta Air Lines that began flying a single Bombardier CRJ200LR aircraft under the Northwest Airlink (now Delta Connection) brand between Minneapolis/St. Paul and Washington, D.C. on May 2, 2007. Its main bas...
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Compass Airlines is a regional airline headquartered in unincorporated Fairfax County, Virginia, United States, east of the Chantilly CDP; the airline plans to relocate its headquarters to Minneapolis, Minnesota in 2009. It is a subsidiary of Delta Air Lines that began flying a single Bombardier CRJ200LR aircraft under the Northwest Airlink (now Delta Connection) brand between Minneapolis/St. Paul and Washington, D.C. on May 2, 2007. Its main base is Minneapolis/St. Paul. On August 21, 2007, it began flying two Embraer 175 76-passenger aircraft, with a planned fleet of 36 aircraft by December, 2008.
Compass Airlines was formed as a result of a contract dispute between Northwest Airlines and its pilots union, the Airline Pilots Association (ALPA), due to a "scope clause" in the Northwest pilot contract, intended in its collective bargaining agreement to protect jobs and pay of those flying aircraft of 76 passenger seats or less.
In order to adapt to the agreement, and fulfill a need to...
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