Originally Posted by mooney

Not sure what you are getting at...
Are you trying to start a "its not your flying it's Delta's flying" argument? If you are implying pinnacle got CRJ flying from NWA it can be argued the mainline pilots gave it up in scope and didnt want to fly barbie jets, and to finance their retirement (the sale of 9e from wholly owned by NWA to a publicly traded company). 9e pilots did not have that choice with the q's, we were informed of it by memo after the purchase.
How far back should I look? to '99 when we had like 35 saabs? to end of 2000 when we had the saabs and 10 CRJ's? '95 when there were saabs and Jetstreams? We talking Pinnacle only Or Express Airlines I if anyone even knows what that is? (besides FLYJSH and Juice, respect ) It's not Delta's Q's it's Pinnacle's (corp). The one thing Pinnacle owns, plus the -900's. (someone chime in with the lease company owns them)

Originally Posted by AJDWINGS

Problem here is that you only read us the second half of the Cliff Notes. In the beginning there was Express Airlines I. They were a small regional turboprop airline flying regional routes. Then along came Northwest who, in an attempt to destroy scope, acquired Express I with the sole purpose of being the launch customer for the shiny new CRJ, I think about 40 of them if I'm correct. Sound familiar?

In all seriousness I for one am aware of how the Q400's were acquired. I'm sure most of my co-workers know it too, however we can't be expected to continuously kiss the ring. Ok we get it, "I benefited because of the sacrifices and financial losses of another pilot". I promise you that every airline pilot, at one point in his career, will be able to make that statement at least once.

An old TWA captain told me one time, "Remember one thing in this business, some days your the windshield and some days your the bug!"