The wheels were set in motion at Comair in August of 2005 and it will have taken 7 years to get to where they are now. I feel the closing was really put in stone back in Aug/Sept of 2010 when the announcement to park half the fleet.

They dynamics are different with Eagle and Pinnacle. PNCL is a publicly traded company and has management that can look for work and answers to creditors. Eagle is more like Comair, wholly owned with another company calling the shots. It has managers who take their directions from their bosses at AMR.