Chow -

The top 300 at Mesaba have been here 9-27 years. During our bankruptcy, as we shrunk by HALF and over 200 pilots quit and another 220 pilots furloughed our average seniority went very high. Higher than it was before Ch11. THen NWA grew us and we replaced most of our fleet and then some. We also doubled in size in 1.5 years and as of 10/20 just over half the list has been here since April of 07.

So you can see how our seniority list evolved in such a short time. This is why our costs are low and are attractive to DL. Unfortunately many paid hard price for these "rewards" today.