mooney

a couple of years ago, we were dealing solely with a greedy incompetent regional management team with lots of newbies and disgruntled senior guys on property who had nothing to lose at all by shutting her down (and probably only for a few days) at a time when the economy was safe and there was hiring going on until the bust in mid '08. This time, the balance sheet was really in the red and we were not negotiating with Pinnacle management, we were dealing with DL, and same said pilots have more invested in the company, and realize Spandex and co. will be replaced. Plus the odds of getting on at a major are slim until 2014. USair already said no thanks to most of our experienced guys. At least that's what I see as the reason for the 99% then to the 85% for today...