Originally Posted by
dingo222
colgan owns more than half of them, I think 29 of the saabs. The rest are leased. I'm not sure about the 1900's. We also own a lot of the routes we fly for us airways, and some of the gates at various airports. Makes you wonder how th 20 mil came into play. There's more to this deal than has been made public. We will find out when they have to file the public SEC filing after the deal closed.
I believe some of the leased ones are owned by pinnacle as well. If you recall PNCL did have saabs before the -200's showed up. *As I understand it*- some were sold, some were "leased" to mesaba to operate, and some where parked- later "leased" to colgan and a few to someone else. The number I heard was 10 saabs. My source on this was a Mx guy that had evidently been around since the jetstream/saab days. He told me all this as he was pulling numerous breakers on the "reset jet" and telling me how he likes how these are soo easy sometimes, and other times are a major headache compared to the props. I dunno if any of it is true- but I am curious to find out.