Originally Posted by PinnacleFO (Post 368015)

I gaurantee you that Pinnacle will be around after the merger is over.

Originally Posted by FR8DOGG (Post 368067)

Here's what I think...

I'm gonna start my 4 day trip tomorrow, do my job and then go home. Until the planes I fly say Delta Connection on the side ... nothing has happened. Until I get an official f-word letter...nothing has happened. Until my company has been awarded more or less flying...nothing has happened. It won't do me any good to get myself worked up into a tizzy over all this speculation. Last time I checked, my crystal ball didn't work worth a damn anyway.

Originally Posted by tom14cat14 (Post 368035)

From what i understand 9e could lose their flying because they broke the contract performance

Originally Posted by PinnacleFO (Post 368015)

I gaurantee you that Pinnacle will be around after the merger is over.

Originally Posted by Terantious (Post 368104)

Dude, I don't have much faith in your guarantee since you can't even spell the word. :D

Originally Posted by FR8DOGG (Post 368067)

Here's what I think...
I'm gonna start my 4 day trip tomorrow, do my job and then go home. Until the planes I fly say Delta Connection on the side ... nothing has happened. Until I get an official f-word letter...nothing has happened. Until my company has been awarded more or less flying...nothing has happened. It won't do me any good to get myself worked up into a tizzy over all this speculation. Last time I checked, my crystal ball didn't work worth a damn anyway.

Originally Posted by Airsupport (Post 367337)

delta trying to get out of the contract "ILLEGALLY" wouldn't even make sense and they wouldn't do it. they could have done it to mesa years ago but they waited till they could legally do it. i wouldn't think that an airline who is trying to win approval by the government and the people would start illegally doing anything.

Originally Posted by schone (Post 368346)

Ofcourse it wouldn't make sense, just like our good old uncle didn't try (and succeeded if I may) to divide and conquer between our flying and the acquisition and subsequent enlargement of the Colgan side. They'll call it DeltaWest and overnight both our contracts with NW and DL will be void and moot. Don't even think you'd need a battery of lawyers for that.

I agree with whomever wrote that NO ONE knows anything. We are kidding ourselves if we think we are in a better position than anybody else because we have some delta contract (which btw out of all DCI carriers we've got the worst performance), because Anderson and PT are buddy buddies, because of any other pilot's mind made up reason that let's us sleep comfortable at night.

The only thing that is probably working for us is the fact that it'll take a long time for the dust to sattle in a post merger environment and even that is assuming fuel cost wouldn't kill us overnight with fuel trading already at a $117 a barrel. How long will we keep on flying MSP-RST, DTW-FNT, DTW-CAK, MSP-FAR and so on with that kindof a reality?

Also with that kind of a thought process please remember that the rest of our colleagues in the different regionals will be benefiting from the same, in other words.... Same *******, different day.

Bottom line, future is uncertain and it's time we stop eating the union propaganda as fast as we dismiss PT and his aids propaganda. It's all the same crap....one is wrapped up in a shiny blue logo, the other in the form of a Tennessee address.