Originally Posted by rattlesnake

Ok, heres the deal...

Colgan takes the Mesaba name....(think Valuejet) and continues to fly turboprops.

Pinnacle takes Mesaba Jets..(gets the 900s they wanted)

Mesaba as it exist today...no longer exists...

Pinnacle will need additional Maint and Crews due to aquiring additional aircraft but I dont forsee any clean "merge" of labor.

Oh, pinnacle gets a DTW hangar and the best CRJ training facility around..