Originally Posted by
stabilatoron
Finally some reality and not just pipe dreams. There are those who have been wishing for Mesa's demise for years, and those who think they will be mainline United pilots in a month. The truth, as always, will be somewhere in the middle.
For right now United needs Mesa to improve their reliability and keep the 70/76 seat rj’s moving. As long as United needs Mesa, they will pump money into them and they’ll be around. Dropping carriers that only operate 50 seat jets that are being phased out isn’t the problem that allowing a major disruption to the dual class bigger rj’s would be. A more realistic merger would be between CommutAir and Mesa. They could consolidate crews to fullly staff the 175’s while retiring the 145’s.