Originally Posted by rickair7777

What is true today in regional-land, may not be the case in two years.

Absolutely true. Anyone can buy Microsoft stocks in 2008. But to get ahead you really had to buy Microsoft in 1987.

COMAIR and Eagle are both owned by their majors...however... it's not safe to assume that they will retain their protected status forever. When they get kicked out of the fold, they will eventually have to re-bid for their own jobs (this happened to jetlink).

Actually Comair lost its protected status when the pilots went on strike in 2001. Delta has been shrinking them since 2005. Comair had to re-bid for their own jobs in the 2006 RFP and lost. Comair jobs went to SKW, RAH, XJet, and ASA.

In addition... the day Comair emerged from bankruptcy, Delta celebrated by announcing a new DCI partner - Pinnacle - and awarding them CRJ900s.

And this week Delta awarded another batch of CRJ900s to Pinnacle... and tomorrow is the last day on the job for a hundred furloughed Comair pilots.