Sorry for popping in the Mesaba thread, just wanted to pass along some more info and add some fuel to the fire.

We had a conference call 2 days ago here at Comair for furloughed pilots. The merger topic came up. According to our MEC they are getting closer to this merger and are about 70% there, however, apparently there is one DCI carrier that is not fully on board and doesn't want to merge. It was not mentioned which one, but I can tell you it's either XJ or CZ... Haha!

Someone mentioned earlier about Comair possibly opening a DTW base. We will be doing about 13% of our flying out of DTW come this Spring. We are already operating numerous flights in/out of MSP and DTW. Word is there will be no new bases though for Comair. I think we will continue to see some More shifting in flying going into the new year for every DCI carrier.