I have been wondering this entire time why everyone jumped on Pinnacle's proposal as horribly one sided, while saying Mesaba's was fair. DOH would screw Colgan. Sure, it is more fair than "category and class" (which I find ridiculous and I work at Pinnacle), but it still isn't fair. cptmurf says he has seen the lists and that DOH wouldn't hurt Colgan that much. I'll go out on a limb and bet that it certainly would. This would be impossible information to get, but these are the questions that would prove my point:

Where would Colgan's top ten end up under DOH vs. "category and classs"???

How many Colgan people were brought aboard in 2009 and 2010 when Mesaba and Pinnacle weren't hiring??? (DOH would effectively "staple" these pilots to the bottom)

Did Mesaba treat there furloughs as active pilots when doing there list??? If so, Pinnacle's proposal would actually have the Junior end of Colgan guys about 100 numbers HIGHER on the list than Mesaba's proposal.

And for the record, I'm not defending the "category and class" argument here. I think it was crap. But I also think the merger committee did exactly what they were tasked with doing, PRPTECT PINNACLE PILOTS. Each committee protected their pilots. Pinnacle's may have been the most unfair, but NONE of these proposals were good to the other groups.