Originally Posted by deltajuliet

Dallas's future is pretty secure. They might build a mx hangar eventually.

No Ejets to IAD (sorry).

Exploring virtual bases. Sounds like they'd only be around a few months at a time. No thanks.

Mesa might go public again in a year or two.

Engine swaps coming up, will be expensive. Originally an estimated cost of $600 million, got it down to ~$250 million. Waiting on maybe going public til they're done.

Lots of upset pilots about the hotel situation. Allegedly we have hotel costs in line with the other regionals; the pilot on the line called BS and said "Well improving everything shouldn't be a problem then." A guy from the hotel committee even called in.

The open door policy was reiterated frequently to move on to the next caller.

Management is averse to higher pay rates so they can keep growing the company and offer upgrades, etc. instead.

And some general complaining about the iPad situation.

That's about the gist.