Originally Posted by bne744

From what I am hearing from a lot of you on here is that you are hoping that Mesaba gets more planes and even get the CRJ1000, now would you rather have Mesaba get these planes or have them go to mainline?? I don't know what your intentions are but I sure don't want to stay at Mesaba for the rest of my life and agree with JetJock and Superpilot in the fact that we want mainline (NWA/DAL) to grow and not the regionals, now of course mainline views us as cheap labor and would love us to grow because we could fly the same planes but for twice as less, theres too many people out there that are like "ohhh I get to FLY A JET, it gives me a massive arousal" and don't even consider where they want to be 10 years down the road and that is what JetJock and SuperPilot is trying to say is that we want mainline to grow, we want more jobs there, keep the flowthrough going and make more money, theres too many people settling for flying for night time assistant manager at McDonald's wages just cuz they get to fly a big FAST JET and its way better than the Piper Warrior I was flying last year, so please don't fall into that trap, now it would be nice that Mesaba gets some more planes, but we also want to see the NWA/DAL get more and grow more because that is where many of our future jobs will be, as JETJOCK said "KEEP MAINLINE JOBS, Protect our futures!!!!"