Originally Posted by ShyGuy

You are the one that is clueless. When Pinnacle purchased Colgan, Anderson was still NWA and there was no NWA-Delta hookup. 9E was then screwed when Phil T grew Colgan with Qs (non-union of course) while 9E pilots took downgrades and displacements. Phil T underbid the Q contracts. Next, to get his foot in the door with Delta, Phil T underbid 16 CRJ-900s with Delta in ATL. Anderson did NOTHING here. Then, several years later, 9E corp bought Mesaba with a 'sweetened' deal by Delta. Another dumb move, XJ was already shrinking and parking their entire Saab fleet. 3 dozen planes to be removed and they still bought them. A smarter management wouldn't have. SkyWest, for example: they did not touch Pinnacle or Mesaba. So now 9E had a bunch of Saabs being parked and a bunch of pilots who needed left seats and right seats in RJs. Huge problem, because they are XJ and 9E was still 9E. How's that operational certificate thing coming? Oh yeah that was totally screwed up, and I suppose that's Anderson's fault too? I remember when the SLI came out and it was *literally* every man bid and get whatever you want. ***. They didn't even have an operational merger (fenced vs unfenced) and yet guys are already bidding off the Saabs and Qs into CRJ900s. Another dumb mistake, allowed by the JCBA, and the union went with it. 9E went into BK because of many other screw-ups, all those mentioned above. Delta not paying a contractual fee (because again, 9E was misappropriating training meant for DCI pilots) was only one small reason in the overall picture.

You had a choice, you could have voted no. Gumm isn't there to ensure 9E's long term survival. He has a precedence of going to places to shut them down.