I agree with you, it wasn't Colgan. In fact, it wasn't any pilot's fault in any of the three airlines. Phil was trying to make Pinnacle less dependant on Northwest, and now Delta. And He and Starky made some bad business decisions. I feel the blame extends beyond Pinnacle management. For example: why did Delta sell Pinnacle Mesaba when Colgan and the Pinnacle 900's were loosing money? Especially since the 200's and Saabs had targets on them. We will never know all the metrics involved, but all of this whichever way it goes now will benifit Delta. Either they get to park all their 200's from one carrier, or they get to set a new low for future whipsawing who's left. It will be a win win regardles. Lets face it, they are shrewder at Delta than Phil and the gang, and they always get what they want. Has anyone ever wondered why het got such a huge severence?

 

The worst mistake was 9E buying mesaba. United was willing to pay more for the 9L flying during negotiations but DL said no as a condition of DIP financing. Delta hates senior regional pilots, and they were desperate to offload XJ. If Phil could have a do-over, Delta should have quickly liquidated XJ and transferred the airframes to Pinnacle. Instead, Pinnacle will liquidate and offload airframes to someone else.

 

The worst mistake Pinnacle Corp made was negotiating a contract with turboprops losing money ("Yes, we lose $100 per leg, but we make it up in volume").

With our current contract, we make what, maybe $2 per hour more than the average DCI contract? Pilots and unions are not the problem: boneheads with MBAs ARE the problem.

 

Ya, they should have let someone with compitant management buy us like Skywest. I'd like to know why Delta turned them down. 9E has been a joke for years. I'm not sure why they thought they could handle buying Colgan and Mesaba when they could barely run Pinnacle

 

Delta was going to pay for the merger between XJ and 9E. When we added Colgan to the mix Delta backed out of the deal. Delta made the right move there, we broke our end of the bargain.

 

I still wonder if that wasn't the plan from the beginning to purposely start us down this path, and uncle Phil's severance was in part for being a scapegoat

 

Let me get this straight? You are upset regionals are shrinking while mainline is growing?

Would you also cry if a sweat shop in China closed its doors and was replaced by a factory in America with good jobs?

 

The problem is the mainlines aren't growing, they have been shrinking for over 10 years. Any grounds made with retirements of pilots has been cancelled out with retirements of airplanes. This trend appears not to be ending either.

So for your example, the 2 Chineese sweatshops were closed, and replaced with 1 shiny new factory in India. Big whoop.

 

DING DING DING DING and Menke figured out he was a scapegoat and bailed. Sponge-Bob-jingly-pants was slated to be the CEO all along. This whole spit-bag has bull-hooey written all over it. I'm glad to see that the one place I want the government to be involved in my life they once again turn a blind eye to the airlines bully-caca

 

cant really say a mainline is growing when cities served by mainline are now only 200s