Originally Posted by BE19Pilot

Not exactly sure where you heard about us loosing any EAS flying in those markets officially, but I think you will see some EAS routes being out-bid by other airline. I can almost 100% (You just live a more sure life than I live, even high certainty in my life is something like 90%) assure you that PNCL Holdings will bid these routes, but whether they can afford to fly them at the subsidized rates is speculation at this point.
Also, even if we hypothetically were to loose(Your tie is loose, you would lose flying, yes it matters.) this flying. It only effects THREE lines of flying, and we have the NE for the summer and likely will pick-up more markets for UEX in the fall. The sum total of all this will be a wash, equaling more growth in actual number of pilots on the property, because we have firm orders for 30 "Qs" (Actually you have 15 Firm orders and another 30 total options, you'd think you'd know that working there) thru the end of 2011 and another 15 more in 2013. SAAB is on it's way out(Agreed), and so is EAS flying at Colgan Air (eventually) and wouldn't be surprised to see PNCL announce more orders for even more "Qs" once the code-share shell game is completed at both Delta and United/Continental(Delta doesn't want turboprops Q or not, United/Continental depends on who's scope wins. If New United keeps 70 seat jet scope then Q's may or may not be in demand, if by some miracle Continentals 50 seat jet scope prevails then the Q would be in demand, assuming the merged group doesn't close the loophole now that it's exposed). The landscape in the airline business can and must change.(Agreed) More consolidation, less mainline flying and more large turboprops(Maybe, we as pilots should hope for more mainline not less since if you're working at Colgan you're probably looking for a quick upgrade and PIC turbine to move to a major, no major flying no moving on from bad contract... )...Someone is going to pull the trigger on the Q-400X (90 seater) (Gosh lets hope not, unless there's some increase in pay lets hope the race to the bottom doesn't continue) in the next couple of years also...

Regards, and happy speculating!

ex-Navy Rotorhead