Pinnacle Corp is nothing but Pinnacle Airlines thinly disguised. Pinnacle Airlines gave birth to Pinnacle Corp to own it. Colgan is Corp's only other major asset and they have lost Corp money, so it can't be said that they have positively contributed to the financial standing of Corp. Corp and Airlines' management are even the same people in the same building.

You guys at Mesaba know about holding companies and shell games. MAIR....


What it comes down to is that one should expect to be able to bid roughly the same percentage on their seat / base / fleet type after the SLI. You should not be able to jump ahead to a much better position afterwards due to how the SLI was worked out. Anything else amounts to you taking from another pilot.

The benefit to the pilots of a combined seniority list is that they can't play the groups against each other and that there are more bases / fleet types open for bid as your seniority holds it. A benefit of a combined seniority list should NEVER be that you may be able to leapfrog ahead of your peers.