Originally Posted by
TiredSoul
So can you give us a quick rundown of what happened?
Didn’t Swift take over Eastern in their fire sale?
Then Dynamic applied for DOT permission to put 10 76’s on the empty Eastern certificate?
No they never took over eastern/dynamic. They used to have a common owner with Ken Woolley. Through the ownership swift had sent personnel to help manage their finances to help them get out of problems. They were surviving pretty much out of sub work we were giving them over the summer.
The eastern certificate never belonged to swift. It was Vincent Violas and he made a business deal with ken Woolley for the name. Swift just bought assets and contracts from defunct eastern 2. Pilots were allowed to interview and come to swift in the deal. 2 planes and about 12 pilots came over.
Not sure what they did there between viola and Woolley for the name, that’s how dynamic became eastern 3.