Originally Posted by ecam

Things must be pretty awesome at United if this kind of crap is the best you guys can come up with to measure johnsons over.

But back to the topic, there's no way UAL is making a move into ATL. ULCCs have barely nosed under the tent and DAL has been swatting them like flies. Plus SWA has a large presence there. It would make no sense for UAL to try and establish a hub in such a crowded fortress market. Somewhere underutilized like RDU would make way more sense.

As many others have said, this is just Mesa trying to poach pilots away from Expressjet, and a weak attempt at it. They would have to be pretty hard up to make that move, and it would be just like Mesa to immediately close the base as soon as they have all the pilots they want. This dovetails nicely with the rumor Expressjet management is spreading about a UAL buyout and seniority numbers for the pilots. Which of course is never going to happen, but it will probably keep many around to see if it actually happens.

What we are watching is the slow, painful death of the regional jet industry. Finally.