Originally Posted by
DL31082
What's not stated in this argument was United was renegotiating the Q400 contract to make it profitable. Delta's DIP financing demands, and they were demands stated they had to exit the United flying. Without that the contract would have been renegotiated and the would probably still be flying at Pinnacle.
Probably not because even though UAL was willing to negotiate a new price, the cost of running the Qs on a seperate certificate under the new contract created enormous training costs and training events that made the operation marginal. The Qs came in under the old Continental scope, and until UAL had new joint scope they could not be on the same certificate as the CRJ 900s. Any way you look at it the Q operation was a financial disaster, and Delta very rightly refused to invest money in an operation that had no prayer of being financially viable.