Originally Posted by Airsupport

Yes I chose to work for pinnacle. You chose to work for colgan. No one forced me to pinnacle. No one forced you to Colgan. Colgan was bought by pinnacle. Not the other way around.

If I were to tell the mec to not combine the list then you guys would end up on the street. Remember colgan is going away. And since the colgan pilots dont have a contract or scope protecting them pinnacle could just move those planes to the mesaba ticket and re-hire all the colgan pilots at the bottom of the list. Thats what they want to do anyway. Get all those planes on the mesaba certificate. I don't think you want that. Pinnacle saved colgan from going under 3 years ago and we are doing it again now. Colgan bleeds money 3 out of 4 quarters every year. All the pinnacle pilots have been doing is keeping it afloat long enough for them to buy a bunch of q400's and try and salvage it. The company has been using our new contract money to bandage up the colgan and now that name is going away.

Please tell me what exactly is the merger policy? I would love to hear what you think it is.

Like I said I would love to hear a logical, not emotional, reason as to why date of hire is unfair.

I am glad to have the three pilot groups together. I think this will help us all with what little job security we have as a regional carrier and also helps keep the potential for whipsawing us around down. Working together is better than fighting each other. I just want whats fair.