Maybe so, but it's no great consolation here. Mesaba was purchased as a wholly-owned subsidiary by Northwest POST-bankruptcy and has grown by leaps and bounds since then. They were all but defunct prior to that and have been hiring like mad and getting new aircraft -- hiring street captains as a matter of fact. Delta has treated its DCI carriers with a rare contempt. I don't know how NW deals with its regionals but it can't be any worse than Delta which has done nothing except shrink Comair. I guess I wouldn't have minded the email memo as much if we were at least upgrading captains, not getting rid of airframes, losing flight hours and routes and cost-containing our business into oblivion while other darlings of the DCI world grow by leaps and bounds (except Freedom of course).

But what I do I know. I'm just a pie-lut.