i think you're confusing a "merger" with being bought. no one (that i know of, at least nothing made public) that any airline MERGE with expressjet. i'm not saying that's good or bad, it's just that there aren't any mergers in the works. your company is being looked at as something to buy by another company. your company would be owned by another company. i understand the contract stuff that everyone's talking about, and it's very well written, strong language to protect your interests no matter what type of "takeover" happens. but skywest inc. will not BUY expressjet with that language, so it might just be a deal killer. that's fine with them and obviously maybe fine with you guys too. my point is that, other than any sort of language in the contract that you have, a company being bought doesn't generally sit around telling the new owners what to do.

comair is owned by delta, right? do the comair pilots tell delta that they want to be based at a delta base? no, of course not. they are owned by delta. delta does its thing, comair does its own thing. if skywest inc. buys expressjet (again, a big IF that would only happen with a change in your contract language that you guys would vote on), you can't then sit around expecting to have some sort of claim to the company that just bought you. i don't even understand this mentality. i guess i could see it if it were a merger, like northwest and delta. but you do know that's not what is on the table with expressjet right now, right?