Originally Posted by
ryane946
I think this is GREAT for the industry. Imagine if every airline had their own regional. One and only one for each airline. Less competition among regional airlines is great for us as pilots.
Imagine if this (and only this) was true:
American uses American Eagle
Continental uses ExpressJet
Delta uses Comair/Skywest
Northwest uses Mesaba
Alaska has Horizon
Frontier has Lynx
That would be great for the industry. I am rooting for Northwest to aquire Mesaba and give all their new flying to Mesaba.
Are you being sarcastic here? If Mesaba gets bought by someone else or liquidates, then NWA will have lost one of it's whipsaw pawns. In case you didn't know the history; In the 80's to around 97-98? Express Airlines 1 (Memphis) and Express Airlines 2 (MSP)existed. I don't know the particulars or the order, but Brady sold the airline to NWA. They inturn split the company and gave the MSP flying to Mesaba. There's alot more to the stoy, but the bottom line is that NWA put Express on the brink, held out carrots of growth and jets just like they had to Mesaba with them being given the nothern flying. Mesaba also got the Avros. They will do the same thing with this. Anyone that knows the history of this can see the uncanny similarities. It's scary if you ask me!
