no matter how hard you try and how much you complain about wages, the regional airline industry is what it is and if you bang your head up against the wall all day long thinking that scope is going to go back down to 19 seats. Your sorely mistaken.

But my point was this. As a pilot, not a professional commercial pilot b******* and moaning about wages/van drivers/and overnights, I have always appreciated a beautiful airplane. And the E175 is a beautiful airplane, its not sjs!!! just an appreciation for sexy lines and nice proportions.

Well, I hope you like being married. The way mainline jobs are disappearing because of planes like that, you're gonna be waking up next to that E170 for a long time.

LMAO Yeah OK, mr. E 1 seventy heavy driver

thats a joke, i am making fun of the E 1 triple Seventy!

flying is my part time job, i have several other projects that make me quite a bit more money than most pilots at your average regional/major airline! Cheers!

They do have to ratify each pilot contract. Furthermore they also have to deal with the stock holders of NWA and Delta respectively as both of those are publicly owned and compass and comair are wholly owned airlines by those two. They would have to announce PUBLICLY their intention of any possible merger and have the stockholders informed.

Also, the fact that comair will be the only one benefiting from the merger is another reason to believe that this merger is nothing more then a rumor. Compass stands to loose a lot from a merger with a company in as bad of a shape as comair. For a merger to conclude both airlines have to benefit from the union, hence, agree to it. Otherwise the other option would be an "hostile takeover" and in this case there can not be an "hostile takeover" as neither of the companies are publicly traded.

Compass is what JetBlue was at their birth and no airline would ruin the chance of having 3 to 4 years of possible profits for the sake of another hurting airline.

We are all going to get screwed during this merger....

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Comair is one of the largest CRJ 200 Operators in the world, if not THE largest. Everyone recognizes with capacity increasing it is unprofitable to operate low capacity 50 seater that are among the most inefficiency 50 seaters out there. Not only they dont have the most efficient engines but the fact that they dont have fadec increases their inefficiency by nearly 10%. Also comair has one of the oldest and highest paid pilot and flight attended groups, making their payroll a huge burden. In a competitive market with such small profit margins having such "top heavy" pilot group in a regional airline is devastating for the bottom line of any regional. Regional airlines in theory are not supposed to maintain and retain workforce longer then 4 years. In a healthy market, which we are not in, the regional workforce is supposed to flow up to the majors, keeping the operating cost of the regionals competitive. Comair doesn't have either one.