Originally Posted by
buddies8
well would that be not the case for every mainline who contracts out the feed to a non owned carrier. one is always supporting the other mainlines feeder especially if one feeder feeds more than one mainline at the same time. they all do it, argument does not hold up to reality of the current business model mainlines employ.
The Pinnacle situation was very different from what happens at other regionals with multiple codeshares. Part of the deal for buying Mesaba was Delta would pay for the cost of integrating Mesaba and retraining all the pilots. When Pinnacle sent them the bill, Delta refused to pay because pilots were being retrained for the United Q400s as well, and Delta said they were not going to pay to retrain pilots for United, only Delta. The withholding of this payment (along with many other factors) pushed 9E into bankruptcy.
Once Delta basically bought the company in bankruptcy they wanted nothing to do with the United Q400s and the Colgan certificate was dropped.