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Mesa's Parent Company?

http://www.kait8.com/Global/story.as...9&nav=menu67_3

From Jonesboro, AR, reporter Keith Boles fails to do his research.

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On January 21st Mesas' parent company Air MidWest officially requested to the Department Of Transportation permission to drop it's route in Arkansas. That route includes Dallas, El Dorado, Hot Springs and Jonesboro. The airline asks to drop the route on April 21, 2008.

Raise your hand if you're surprised :rolleyes:

*hand raised*
Ha...the media is so good at getting their facts straight. Thats not even airline specific, any one with a basic knowledge of business should have been able to figure that one out.

ahh that's why we get paid beech 1900 rates to fly our jets...

Tick..........Tick..........Tick...........Tick

Regardless of the Mesa/Midwest flap, that news clip was painful to watch. Whomever put that together should be shot. Or fired. Whatever.

I sent the reporter an email about this and received this response:

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The copy of the letter I received from the company specifies that "Air Midwest" made the request. And all the conversations I had with Mesa spoke of the parent company being "Air Midwest" . I would be glad to make a correction if necessary but until further verification is given me I will not be able to make a change.

Respectfully,
Keith Boles
KAIT TV

Interesting....

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Originally Posted by waflyboy (Post 309322)

I sent the reporter an email about this and received this response:

Interesting....

Forward this article about the fee-per-departure concept:

http://www.atwonline.com/magazine/ar...articleID=1160
http://www.atwonline.com/magazine/ar...articleID=1924

And then each companies 10K (but that would be too much like research)

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/sec?s=MESA
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/sec?s=MEH

BTW, from the MESA 10-K, you'd think that they owned Midwest:

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Discontinued Operations

In the fourth quarter of fiscal 2007, the Company committed to a plan to sell Air Midwest or certain assets thereof. Air Midwest consists of turboprop operations, which includes our independent Mesa operations. Midwest Airlines code-share operations, and our Beechcraft 1900D turboprop code-share operations with US Airways. In connection with this decision, the Company began soliciting bids for the sale of the twenty Beechcraft 1900D aircraft in operation and began to take the necessary steps to exit the EAS markets that we serve and expect to be out of all EAS markets by the end of fiscal 2008. All assets and liabilities, results of operations, and other financial and operational data associated with these assets have been presented in the accompanying consolidated financial statements as discontinued operations separate from continuing operations, unless otherwise noted. For all periods presented, we reclassified operating results of the Air Midwest turboprop operation to loss from discontinued operations.

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Originally Posted by waflyboy (Post 309322)

Interesting....

"Until further verification is given to me" - well there's your problem. Reporters are supposed to seek out stories and determine facts. If you're just going to sit on your fat arse in an office and regurgitate press releases you're going to have an accuracy problem from time to time.

Whoever got that e-mail from the reporter should forward it to his boss. "given to me" - any editor worth his/her salt should go through the f*#king roof!