Originally Posted by
ebl14
I think you are confused about the term "career expectations" when applied to a merger. The term refers to what is likely to happen to an employee group if they had continued on alone or status quo. In this case, Colgan would have never had the cash to buy Q400s and double the size of thier operation. Pre-purchase a Colgan first officer would have to wait for Captains to leave to greener partures before they would get a chance at moving up and getting an upgrade, the same goes for Pinnacle. At Mesaba, Delta was already parking the Saabs and Mesaba was preparing for another round of massive furloughs. Had is not been for the purchase and merger with Colgan the expectation for a Mesaba pilot was furlough for the bottom 40-50%, downgrade for the 25-50% pilots and decreased QOL for the top 25%.
Whatever, you act like you have a crystal ball, or some other special gift that allows you to predict the future. What you say here is the worst case scenario. It could have easily been Mesaba getting the 12 700s rather than Compass getting 12 E170s. The fact is, we don't know what would have happened if we would have remained separate companies, but all three are much better as one. Stop acting like Pinnacle is our savior