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Old 01-18-2008 | 02:25 PM
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Mesaba also operates overgrown RJs for NWA. I have never heard Mesaba in the same sentence as "scab".

I think the difference is that in beginning NWA managment wanted to start this new airline (newco) and run 100+ seat airplanes there. This would have lead to over 1,000 furloughs at the mainline (NWA, in their generoscity, offered to hire them back at first year pay.) This was big news during the restructuring which started in September 2005. I think that many people who are not up on industry news still think of Compass as newco and that's why you hear it in the same sentence as "scab".

The compromise is what you see today. NWA ALPA required management to start a new subsidiary to operate large RJs (Compass). The requirements of this new airline per the NWA contract are as follows:
  • Wholly-owned & can’t be sold (until they pick & take the first 10 deliveries of a 77-110 seat DC9 replacement);
  • Flow down/up agreement;
  • Represented by ALPA;
  • Must have an industry standard contract by the time the E-175 starts revenue service.
NWA gave 36 CRJs (76 seats) to Mesaba; 36 E-175s (also 76 seats) were given to Compass.
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