“It was very – I hate to use the pejorative term – low rent,” Morgan said. “It was really a shoestring operation.”

"So, too, were the pilots. With the airline industry starting to run short on experienced pilots leaving the military and regionals like Colgan paying less than half what pilots would make at the major airlines, Morgan noticed that some of the Colgan pilots were not the same caliber as those at Continental."

I wonder if be same could be said about Republic. RAH pretty much took over Colgan's Q operation. The IBT at Republic also tried and failed to install the top 300 lifers into the Airbus captain seats at F9 during the whole failed "merger" fiasco.