I didn't say you started the rumor, I was just looking for details.

I know a bunch of folks who are there now and they mostly seem happy with their employment...

incorrect. The entire plan is to sell mesaba and compass once they get the airlines going. Pinnacle was sold in 3 years. i can gaurantee they want to do that or better when it comes to mesaba and compass. its all about making the bling my friends. they bought the compass cert for 1 million dollars. i wonder how much the cert will go for now?

You can guarantee? WOW, bold statement! I'm sure that might be the plan but I'd never guarantee, no matter what they've done in the past.

The cert was ACA/IA's. Anyone could have purchased it, but no one did until many years after their fall from grace. They reason why Mesaba and Compass will be attractive buy's isn't their cert’s. It's the fact that anyone who buys them will get guaranteed long term flying from MWA. Much like SKW did with DAL when they purchased ASA. You can bet that 9E, SKW, XJT and RAH will be in the hunt for that business.

You're not peein' in my cheerios....I don't want RAH to have anything to do with Compass.

I don't doubt that NWA intends to make some cash off of Compass at whatever time it's most advantageous for them to do so, whether that be a spinoff IPO, sale to another company, or parting it out. I'm just a little skeptical about Republic given that I haven't seen one person back up the rumor with solid facts and the only people spreading the rumor are RAH pilots gleefully brandishing their staplers...

I love my stapler!

What is up with you people? You need to stop throwing out bad information.

Duck: The money you are referring to is RAH's claim in Delta's bankruptcy. It has nothing to do with Comair. And to go further, RAH sold that claim for half the price to an undisclosed entity. Granted that entity may have been disclosed since then, but that does not matter.

As Boiler said, it just does not make sense for RAH to buy Comair anyway. BB has been asked this on every confrence call since Delta said they would be open to the idea of selling Comair. BB's answer(everytime), no we are not looking to grow in that fashion.

So listen up everybody, when it comes to RAH buying Comair, forget it. I believe that the Compass thing would happen before any Comair thing would. Not to say the Compass thing would happen.

The only place I ever hear this rumor get spread is on this board. Get over yourself.

Personally, I'm happy the real world (it's the place outside of your hotel room) does not operate like this. Every day it's another "Your company sucks because of this..." "My company is taking over this..." blah blah blah. Personally, I'm going to start a rumor that Skywest voted down ALPA because they're becoming communists and have plans to merge with AMTRAK and Greyhound to control the countries modes of transportation. This will be endorsed by Comair when they merge seniority lists with Delta on a 3-1 basis with UAL stapled at the bottom. Oh, and selected members from the pilot groups at RAH and XJT are going to meet at the next Wrestlemania to determine once and for all whose going to start flying outsourced CAL 787's. Colgan's going to be the special guest referee.

Unless it's sittin' on the ramp painted, it's all a bunch of crap.

Was the "get over yourself" aimed at me, Sharky? Because I'm essentially in agreement with the rest of your post...

It's basically aimed at the growing number of folks I see on here complaining about the ego of RAH pilots then telling us how their contract is better, their company is better, their flying is better, their airplane is better etc. etc. etc. Not you in particular, just something I noticed over the past couple of months that everyone seems to enjoy taking more and more potshots at our company. Personally, we're pilots. Every single person on this board has an ego. Mine barely fits in the cockpit, my friends will tell ya. It would just be nice if people knew what the hell they were talking about before they started talking.