Originally Posted by
9easy
The worst mistake was 9E buying mesaba. United was willing to pay more for the 9L flying during negotiations but DL said no as a condition of DIP financing. Delta hates senior regional pilots, and they were desperate to offload XJ. If Phil could have a do-over, Delta should have quickly liquidated XJ and transferred the airframes to Pinnacle. Instead, Pinnacle will liquidate and offload airframes to someone else.
Ya, they should have let someone with compitant management buy us like Skywest. I'd like to know why Delta turned them down. 9E has been a joke for years. I'm not sure why they thought they could handle buying Colgan and Mesaba when they could barely run Pinnacle