There's a good side to a low-paid regional buying 2 mainline carriers, one of which they've already voiced their intention to replace the mainline jets with their own metal?

RAH to Acquire Midwest Airlines - Yahoo! Finance

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Originally Posted by Yahoo! Finance
Under the agreement, Midwest will become a wholly owned subsidiary of Republic Airways, with the Midwest brand continuing. Midwest’s Boeing 717s will be replaced with Embraer 190 aircraft, enhancing Midwest’s ability to offer nonstop service to key destinations important to its frequent flyers.
What's unclear is if the 190s will be flown by Midwest pilots displaced off the 717 or Republic pilots with hardons for bigger airplanes. Given RAH's history, the AA/TWA precedent and the way the Midwest work groups have been treated throughout this whole ordeal, it would not surprise me one bit if the Midwest guys are pounding pavement in a year, watching their brand being flown by pilots who have to sleep on their parent's couch just to make ends meet.

Bryan Bedford, destroying lives one airline at a time.