thanks. i enjoy reading your posts. although they are just your opinion at least your posts have some substance. keep em coming. i like to know whats going on.

while everyone is speculating here is what i see:

comair, mesaba, and compass remain. obviously it looks like mesaba is going to pick up any new flying. i dont know why compass is not getting more except for the fact that they are trying to keep mesaba as a crj carrier and compass as a erj carrier and crj is where it is right now. plus once chataqua contract expires....give those erj 170 to comass. each will have its own dedicated base. mesaba mainly dtw and comass mainly minny. comair will take jfk. cincinnati will not close but be just big enough to be a small relief airport for other operations. eventually in 5 years...cincinnati will close. each carrier will have a small presence and base in the other three cities to allow whipsaw and minimal impact on strike possibilities. comair is going to go through what mesaba went through with the shrinking to nothing and then major growth. great idea on management's behalf. if you keep the three carriers seperate and grow them at different levels of seniority you can play them against each other. as one group's senority grows old. cut off growth and the pilots that can will move on. then when their pilot group is small grow them again. while that group is growing the other group gets mad and its pilots quit and move on. mesaba is the growth airline right now and comair is the **** the pilots off airline. compass is the in-between stage.