Good Luck with Gumm!
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Similar to how S.M. was brought in for the BK process? It's like going to the bullpen to bring in the situational pitcher.

You're clueless Shy.

The Pinnacle-Mesaba-Colgan debacle was well orchestrated by one of the best in the business: Richard Anderson.

This was a play to create a subset of Delta to lower costs and create a buffer of pilots.

We were put through a brutal bankruptcy and a direct threat from Anderson that we will sign or go out of business.

Well it worked. Anderson is ruthlessly efficient at what he does. If Delta pilots have trouble keeping up with his maneuvering, do you think we really had a chance?

Look over there Shy, a Colgan guy. Go kick him!

And on the subject of Gumm, he's no different than anyone else they put in there.

Big Richard is driving this boat.

Better than the other options, but still awkward as a "logo". You can't really use it by itself like the DL widget, UA globe, AA eagle (flight symbol now, I guess), or even the previous 9E mountain CFIT. It also requires the wordmark to use an awful lot of vertical space. Then again, nobody really sees regional branding except on stationary or internal websites, so I guess it doesn't really matter.

lol wow. See a psychologist.

If you polish a turd, its still a turd.

Good luck with Captain Spooldown aka. Gumm.

You are the one that is clueless. When Pinnacle purchased Colgan, Anderson was still NWA and there was no NWA-Delta hookup. 9E was then screwed when Phil T grew Colgan with Qs (non-union of course) while 9E pilots took downgrades and displacements. Phil T underbid the Q contracts. Next, to get his foot in the door with Delta, Phil T underbid 16 CRJ-900s with Delta in ATL. Anderson did NOTHING here. Then, several years later, 9E corp bought Mesaba with a 'sweetened' deal by Delta. Another dumb move, XJ was already shrinking and parking their entire Saab fleet. 3 dozen planes to be removed and they still bought them. A smarter management wouldn't have. SkyWest, for example: they did not touch Pinnacle or Mesaba. So now 9E had a bunch of Saabs being parked and a bunch of pilots who needed left seats and right seats in RJs. Huge problem, because they are XJ and 9E was still 9E. How's that operational certificate thing coming? Oh yeah that was totally screwed up, and I suppose that's Anderson's fault too? I remember when the SLI came out and it was *literally* every man bid and get whatever you want. ***. They didn't even have an operational merger (fenced vs unfenced) and yet guys are already bidding off the Saabs and Qs into CRJ900s. Another dumb mistake, allowed by the JCBA, and the union went with it. 9E went into BK because of many other screw-ups, all those mentioned above. Delta not paying a contractual fee (because again, 9E was misappropriating training meant for DCI pilots) was only one small reason in the overall picture.

You had a choice, you could have voted no. Gumm isn't there to ensure 9E's long term survival. He has a precedence of going to places to shut them down.

That explains why I'm a 900 Captain now. My goodness, you are clueless, please make something else up, Shy, you are the biggest joke on here. Do you have a life outside of posting on here? What exactly drives someone to leave a company then spend their life stalking forums for them?

2 things.

1. You have no idea if Skywest tried to buy Mesaba or not.
2. Kissing Delta's butt on here isn't going to help your cause. You're still Shyguy. ;)