If no one would have transitioned to the Q I would not doubt for a second that Colgan would have hired 80 new first officers and been DELIGHTED to hire 80 year 1 pay street captains under the circumstances. Sort of like Lynx did.

I understand that Lynx is a TOTALLY different situation as they were a startup but the way Colgan treats it the Q400 is basically a startup and they would have been glad to bypass the entire already in place pilot group to get fresh and easily influenced pilots into it.

I can back what cruise has said one one major item in that the new hires were fed alot of rediculous things from management from day 1. We would have had quite a few no votes had there not been strong influence from the transitioning members who were on the OC.