Originally Posted by Airsupport

Well you just cant buy and sell airlines on a whim. ASA was owned by Delta at one time. Pinnacle was owned by NWA at one time. Mesaba was even owned and sold before. Independence Air was owned by someone else and sold. Even the mighty NWA was bought by Delta. Unless you are the one out there doing the buying and selling then chances are you will switch hands at one point. Some one out there has to want it and Delta has to make the deal sweet enough. The truth is the wholly owneds are taken a beating right now (except for compass). Delta said they wanted to cut capacity and they are mainly using their wholly owneds to do it. Do I think contract carriers are at risk? Absolutely. Just look at Freedom. But it took law suits and court battles to do to them what a phone call could do the the wholly owneds. Those are the facts.