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 think you should fully read my post before you respond. Yes some of it will be covered by somebody else, especially the 900 flying. But, I guarantee the majors have no desire at all to recoupe 50 seat flying if Mesa went under. Much flying will lost. Over 3/4 of mesa's fleet are 50 seaters. Nobody has any desire to keep 50 seaters going, they are slowly being phased out. US airways is taking every oppurtunity to reduce them as is delta and I'm sure United wouldn't mind as well if they had the oppurtunity. Look at the TSA/GoJet situation, need I say more? The majors are going to keep on with this until they have nothing but 70 and 90 seaters that are full. It is not economic to fly around 50 seaters with 12 people on board. And don't say you havn't had flights like that. You think that's making money? It's not. The only thing keeping anybody going is these contracts. The only airline immune is the one and only airline with only 700's. The rest of us are all prey.