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Old 02-22-2015 | 07:56 AM
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Originally Posted by JungleBus
Nah doesn't matter, just meant that the two (ahem, three) ops were folded together after the crash. From the outside looking it, it seemed like they wanted to get rid of the Colgan name because of the notoriety of the crash. Do you know if the plan all along was to combine the operations, or were they originally going to keep them separate a la TSA/GoJet/CPS?
Originally Posted by 80ktsClamp
They were trying to keep it separate until ALPA was voted in at Colgan (which was a handful of weeks before the 3407 accident) and the issue was eventually forced.
I'm pretty sure that in the age of digital media any regional which suffers a notorious at-fault accident will vanish as quickly as the shuffle can be arranged. I can think of two regionals which have had that sort of accident in the last decade...both gone, at least in name.
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