Originally Posted by
CaptKrunch
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.
I'm not sure about other flying but as far as the UA and Airways East, there are a whole bunch of regionals that would like all of that. Besides, Skywest or Gojet, you forgot to mention TSA which does a lot of 50 seat ORD flying and most IAD 50 seat flying for United if Mesa wasn't there. I would imagine PSA and AirWisconsin could help out too...