Originally Posted by
FlyingOkra
Pinnacle parked about 120 CRJ-200's, 36 Q400's, all of the Mesaba & Colgan Saabs, and all of the Colgan 1900's. With all of those aircraft being parked the Seniority list quickly went from nearly 3,000 pilots down to 1,800 in just a few years. Now Endeavor is one of the top Regionals to be at, but that doesn't mean that's how it'll turn out for y'all. Just thought I'd contribute to the question about "Any Regional ever parked half the fleet and survived?"
Minor corrections; the Colgan Beech 1900's were already long gone by the beginning of the merger, but the 16 Pinnacle CRJ900's were parked early on in the merger.
I believe the 900's went to ASA, and I know several of the CRJ-200's ended up at SkyWest. The Q400's tried to go to Republic but couldn't be staffed and some are still sitting unused in YYZ. Some of the Saabs ended up at Silver, some are sitting in BGR.
Last I saw Endeavor is about 1600 pilots now. The pilots have paid a very heavy price for the recent pay gains.