Originally Posted by
flyguy23
Continental didn't ask RAH to fly 16 Q400s. They asked RAH if they wanted to BID on flying those airplanes. The same ones that were just awarded to Colgan. I believe Expressjet was offered a chance to bid on that flying as well. Neither company can do it cheaper than Colgan without operating at a loss. Therefore I believe neither even made an attempt.
colgan also had the slots for delivery of the q400's ANY other company would have had to wait 2-3+ yrs to get a delivery date. With CAL making little or no headway with the relaxation of scope they needed something in the meantime.
If a company like republic wanted to fly props for CAL i am pretty sure they would have just bought colgan. So much for Republics all 70+ seat jet fleet.