Originally Posted by Lighteningspeed

My take on this is that Pinnacle will probably survive this merger and wind up with maybe some more DAL regional flying because I think Anderson will farm out more US domestic flying to Pinnacle and among others such as Mesaba and Compass. I do not fly for 9E so don't take this as a wishful thinking. It is a projection based on the information I have gathered up to this point.

What will happen to other regionals like Mesaba, Compass, Comair Skywest and others is on many people's mind nowadays so I will make my forecast here. Based on what's been happening at Mesaba and Compass, I think the Mesaba Compass Holding corporation will wind up running Mesaba and Compass. Anderson of the New DAL will probably replace the current top management team running the show at Compass and Mesaba. I seriously doubt the current management team at Compass surviving this merger. It is hard to predict what will happen to Comair. But the indications are that Comair may come up on the sale block soon after the merger. Some regionals will be minimized, and indications are fairly clear which ones will go away but I am not going to name them for obvious reasons.

Mesaba has been picking up most of the former DC9 routes and new destinations are added every month.