Originally Posted by Airsupport

Its not speculation. It is what they WANT to do. Management wont care about all the fireworks or a ****ed off pilot group. The more people they get to quit on the mesaba certificate the less trouble it will be to get rid of that good contract and get everyone on a colgan/pinnacle contract. They are probably hoping the senior pilots will retire or quit. Now whether or not the mec's can stop them or work out a deal is another story. They have said more times than I can count that colgan and mesaba would merger and that alpa merger policy would dictate how that would happen. In the same sentence they say that pinnacle and mesaba will not merge. The jets moving over are going to be an asset transfer, nothing more. They think they are doing all the mesaba guys a favor by letting them come here as new hires but keep their longevity. Also allowing them to keep their seniorty for sli integration is not sli integration with pinnacle but with colgan. All they are doing is getting people off the mesaba conract and getting them on the pinnacle contract.

In fact the company wanted to take planes from us and move them to mesaba on a temporary basis to cover flying while the new hires are being trained. There would be nothing we could do about it if they did. Just like there is nothing mesaba can do if corp moves the planes to pinnacle. Unfortunately this is how the company wants this to go down and it will if they get their way. The only way it wont is if the MECs can get together and come up with a legal standing to force the company to merge us all.