Another 13 Saabs to leave Mesaba in 2009
09-14-2009, 10:35 AM
#151
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not all of the DCI stuff is run out of MSP, there is planning done for a daily basis out of SOC in ATL.
Hey im just passing something I heard... nothing is set in stone until a minute before it happns..
just some of the things he's told me are coming true... we'll see
Hey im just passing something I heard... nothing is set in stone until a minute before it happns..
just some of the things he's told me are coming true... we'll see
09-14-2009, 07:21 PM
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For what its worth, i would never want this to happen.
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09-14-2009, 08:48 PM
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IF and its a big IF mesaba goes down to a fleet of 41 CRJ 900's, look for Pinnacle or Skywest to purchase Mesaba from Delta rather quickly. No flame or rumor hear, just my thoughts. Pinnacle wants an all crj 900 fleet eventually and its hard to get them when there is no more room for growth.
09-14-2009, 09:26 PM
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IF and its a big IF mesaba goes down to a fleet of 41 CRJ 900's, look for Pinnacle or Skywest to purchase Mesaba from Delta rather quickly. No flame or rumor hear, just my thoughts. Pinnacle wants an all crj 900 fleet eventually and its hard to get them when there is no more room for growth.
09-15-2009, 02:02 AM
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FWIW I don't think 9E has the capital to buy those frames anyways--they're too tied up with Colgan and their auction rate security float...
09-15-2009, 05:56 AM
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I wish i could have seen your deleted post, i bet it was fun. Our 200's are definetly not off the chopping block. No denying that.
09-15-2009, 08:10 AM
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just questioned why you think Mesaba would be sold off...i doubt it will happen...our performance numbers get included in with mainlines and they are matching 9E's...not that that has anything to do with it...we all fly mostly out of the same bases and we do the ground ops for use guys at those bases...it's really not to much different...besides all those block times get padded at XJ, CZ, and 9E...things will change when it's standard 20 minute turns...
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09-15-2009, 08:14 AM
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Unfortunately the wholly-owneds don't have legally-binding contracts that protect their number of airframes. We're at our contractual minimum until 2016, and our performance numbers don't seem to ever go down--even if they treat us like crap, even if they don't pay us well (???). They can't seem to shake Mesa off with Mesa's performance numbers, it would be even harder to shake us off unless we somehow went on strike--even then I believe they have 60 days of actual work stoppage before DAL can truly break the contract on grounds of labor instability.
FWIW I don't think 9E has the capital to buy those frames anyways--they're too tied up with Colgan and their auction rate security float...
FWIW I don't think 9E has the capital to buy those frames anyways--they're too tied up with Colgan and their auction rate security float...
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