No it wouldn’t. They’re already currently taking a loss on some contracts because they can’t fly the agreed upon contract due to left seat attrition. There’s a fee to walk away from a contract I’m sure, but Mesa literally just did it. They decided to walk away rather than continue to operate at a loss.

Bottom line you can walk away from any contract. Sure there’s a price, but Mesa just proved to me it’s not that heavy.

I’m a big fan of Delta buying out SkyWest. Bring all the 175’s in house with the seniority list. Utilize their training centers to hire the best CFI’s through 141 flight school programs. They already know how to take a CFI and turn them into an RJ pilot successfully. You’d also wipe out probably 1/3 of the available pilots for hire from AA and UAL.

Let AA and UAL figure out how the hell they’re going to compete with that. The Aviate school would look like a joke if that happens. AA will probably be forced to just merge their WO’s into their mainline seniority list. United’s supposed growth plans and connection flying would be taken to the woodshed overnight.