Originally Posted by
Metering
Stay Away from Trans States until they finish shutting down their east coast bases and complete their restructuring. Also, the higher ups are playing games with the union in regards to the new contract negotiations. To me it looks like there is a big announcement coming. Either a merger of the TSH carriers to one airline or a buyout buy another entity. Time will tell, but Trans States is toxic right now.
This is a bit overstated. Whatever happens with TSA there will be a Denver base for the forseeable future because UAL wants the XRs there. If west coast and Denver are what you want, you should be fine. If you want an East Coast base you might want to rethink things. Worst case you get STL or ORD out of the box, but should be able to get DEN quickly because it will be a large base. ORD isn't a bad commute from the west coast if you get stuck there. STL is well, hell for commuters but you should be able to get out of there to ORD or DEN quickly.
Seems pretty likely we're getting bought, most likely by Republic but we'll see if that happens.