Had a deal. It ended when United rebid the AWAC feed and we ended up flying for US Airways through a craftily played move to help finance them out of BK.

There was specific language in United's contract* that allowed us to fly a certain number of aircraft outside of their scope clause. historically going back to when we were flying the BaE-146, got purchased by UAL (yeah, we were owned by then for a while) and then sold off. Their objective in purchasing AW was to get the ORD slots AW posessed. What was egested was bought by the present ownership and reorganized as Air Wisconsin Airlines Corp. and continued to fly as a United Express feeder until we were deemed "too expensive" a la Atlantic Coast Airlines.

* The aircraft were identified by tail numbers and I beileve there was language that allowed a one-for-one swap for an "equivalent" airframe.