Originally Posted by CFIse

That's hilarious. Last January Mesa wrote-off $30M it had ALREADY PAID TO UNITED as "pay to play" money when the contract was initiated. It wasn't a fine or a payment for non-performance (no matter how inadequate the performance might have been). The write-off was because Mesa decided (rightly or wrongly) that the contract was no longer profitable and that the $30M couldn't be taken against future profits.

Really - if you're going to post at least make some attempt to be close to in the same city, let alone ballpark, as the facts.