Originally Posted by
shimmydamp
No, Pinnacle Corp lost all the Saabs and all the Qs. Phil Trenary signed the unprofitable contracts with United and the reason that flying was wound down was because Delta was not going to finance the competition with bankruptcy loans.
How do you say it? "But please don't let facts get in the way of a good bashing..."?
Those Saabs and Qs became unprofitable after the JCBA was signed. That flying was barely sustainable at the old payrates let alone Q rates that caught up to new CRJ-200 rates in 2015. As for Delta, you will recall when 9E Corp closed up BOS US Airways flying to better staff the Qs and Continental Express flying. Why would Delta pay for that? They are not going to pay to staff their competition.