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.
Delta was going to pay for the merger between XJ and 9E. When we added Colgan to the mix Delta backed out of the deal. Delta made the right move there, we broke our end of the bargain.