This statement is proof positive that you don't want to trust just about anything this poster has to say.

Mesa was not "fined" $30M, they paid UAL $30M in "pay for play" at the start of the initial contract (when they lost the US Air contract to AWAC, which coincidentally "paid to play" to get that work). At the start of the year they wrote down that $30M off the books.

To be able to define that as a "fine" paid to UAL is a VERY twisted version of the facts.