Originally Posted by
logan3db
Not that I want to see this happen to LGA, but having Mesaba doesn't mean more and new flying for USAirways. It is just Colgan flying under a new name since the prop flying of Mesaba and Colgan will all become Mesaba, and the jet flying of Pinnacle and Mesaba will become Pinnacle. So its no different than losing our flying to Colgan we are just losing it to the "new" Colgan. Bad deal for our LGA guys no matter which way you look at it.
I wouldn't say it's a bad deal for us "LGA guys".....over the past 2 months we have seen an increase in LGA departures of 45%. Over the past 2 months the LGA pilots have lost 1 line of hard flying. So all they're doing is routing other domiciles through LGA more. This flying shifts around all the time, we'll just do more Pennsylvania shuttle out of Philly. I can't wait...
It's like when they tried to get rid of Express flying in LGA, everybody said "oh I feel bad for you guys". Well guess what....it would have hurt all PDT employees. They would have lost a bunch of flying in NY and replaced it with nothing elsewhere.