Originally Posted by
Airsupport
All this talk about losing planes is more of the same retirique from management. I thought you mesaba guys would have learned that by now. Just 4 months ago you guys thought you were going out of business, . . . .
NWA is going to pay pinnacle the same amount for flying the planes no matter what. Pinnacle is the one trying to squeeze every dime out of their fixed payments. . . . .
think about it guys, in the contract it says pinnacle will get payed no matter what... If we keep the planes, nwa still pays us, if they take the planes, nwa will owe us around 40 million dollars... do you really think the stingiest basta rds on the planet are going to pay us for not doing the flying????? GIVE ME A BREAK!!!! I WILL NOT FALL INTO THIS TRAP!!!!
With the aircraft now reverting to Northwest, the size of Pinnacle's stipulated unsecured claim against Northwest will increase by $42.5 million, the regional carrier said in a statement.
IT IS STUPID TO THINK THAT NORTHWEST WOULD NOT ONLY TAKE THE PLANES BACK BUT PAY US 42.5 MILLION DOLLARS TO DO SO?????? if they do that, i would be really scared if i were at mesaba right now.
I don't think any Mesaba pilot wants to see Pinnacle go through the ups and downs they experienced last year. The article I posted is obviously "short" on facts. We all need to be better educated on the "stipulated unsecured claim against NWA" and its relationship to the fifteen CRJ200s plus (1 @ Mesaba and 1 @ Compass)
EDIT: Did some research. It seems like Pinnacle will submit a $42.5 million dollar claim for future "loss of income" associated with the seventeen aircraft all of which are not in their possession. It will be interesting to hear what the bankruptcy judges says.