Originally Posted by nicholasblonde

Why don't you wait to bail until you find out what's going to happen? IMHO having some TPIC (and a CRJ PIC type paid for by 9E) would make it infinitely easier to bail out if things go south. With that CRJ PIC type, you'd probably have no difficulty going straight to the left seat at Mesaba, from what I've heard.

I'm curious to see what happens with DAL and NWA also. If DAL buys out NWA, I could see 9E coming out with more growth at the expense of Mesaba. A DAL+NWA would probably try to concentrate it's regional feed as much as possible into 900s into as few hubs as necessary...9E would be in a better position to suck feed from both Mesaba and DCA carriers...of course, nothing can happen until they at least have some friggin 900 rates. How can the majors even make decisions on who to send 900s to unless they know what it's gonna cost!!!