I was talking to a high level Delta Corporate guy yesterday and asked about the 3 regional plan.

He said that the last deal with Compass was just a 2 year deal that they did because Skywest could not handle all the flying that they wanted to give to Skywest at the time. I guess Skywest was already getting a bunch of 175s for them at the time and could not add pilots fast enough to take on more flying.

He said that Skywest moved a bunch of planes east and they gave Compass the west coast flying that Compass has there now. But, when that 2 year contract ends he said that Skywest will be moving back west. I wanted to ask if Skywest was moving the east coast stuff back west or adding new west coast flying, but he was on a roll and I didn't want to slow him down. I'm guessing he meant new west coast flying and he didn't phrase it correctly. Anyone have info on this? He talked faster than I could keep up.

He mentioned that Delta is very concerned with working with TSH because of lawsuits by employees against them for terminating employees taking FMLA and firing protected Guard or Reservists. "The last thing we need is to hear about how are regionals are taking health insurance away from people with cancer to save money or reservists who are fighting for the country." I thought that was interesting. He mentioned the Dr being dragged off of Republic on a United flight was very bad for United.

So is all the Compass flying going to go to American? Maybe United would like those 170s flying for them? Any chance of flying for Alaska? They won't close will they?