Originally Posted by
Airsupport
nothing is fair game, even if we strike. the contract still belongs to us. and yes you mesaba guys had it bad because they were in bankruptcy. the only way they could get rid of our contract now is if they were to go back into bankrupcty and get a judge to throw it out.
That is a fairly accurate statement. 50seat RJs are on their way out so Mesaba does not really need more than 15 from Pinnacle especially when NWA has the option for 94 additional CRJ900s. What could happen is NWA could decide to pull out a large number of CRJ200s out of Pinnacle and deactivate them. In turn, NWA could place more CRJ900s to XJ service. At least this is the talk going around coming from the top down from NWA.