Originally Posted by
NightHawk
that's the problem with you people. You think that all of the flying is going to get snatched up by other regionals and it will be a win win situation. WRONG. All of the major carriers would jump at the chance to reduce flying with no reprocutions. I'm sure skywest would get some flying as well as some others, but much of it will be lost due to this economic environment. The long term reality will be more pilots on the street desperate for jobs and managements with more power than ever. The more jobs that are open, the more power we have. Less jobs= less power for us.
I think YOUR wrong. The flying done by Mesa for both US Airways and for United would have to be covered. Mesa does ALL the flying for Airways on the West Coast. No matter how dumb people think Doug is he is not going to NOT fly RJ's on the west coast. On the United side they do quite a bit of 200 and 700 traffic meaning either Skywest of GoJet would have to pick up the slack. The fact is a regional the size of Mesa can't disappear without leaving a sizable void even in today's economy.