Pinnacle Buying Colgan

[Flyer1015]

Amazes me Pinnacle Corp. management has the will and the money of $20 million to buy out Colgan, and yet, they are extremely unwilling to negotiate with Pinnacle pilots to reach a fair deal that recognizes the pilot group.

Those of you at PNCL 'in the know' -----> the current Pinnacle ALPA proposal.... would it have cost the company an additional 20 million if signed?

More than 20 million? Less than 20 million?

 

[dingo222]

who owns the pcl rj's?

 

[Flyer1015]

My understanding is NWA does, and leases it to PNCL.

 

[PCL_128]

Those of you at PNCL 'in the know' -----> the current Pinnacle ALPA proposal.... would it have cost the company an additional 20 million if signed?

More than 20 million? Less than 20 million?

Our current proposal is $50 million more than the company's current proposal (which is basically current book with less scope).

 

[suupah]

does this mean Colgan is the new whipping boy of flightinfo.com?

 

[rhino3040]

Oh my god!!! What time does the bar open?

 

[IslandDriver]

I think this will not affect a lot....Colgan will fly TP's and Pinnacle will operate RJ's.....

Don't forget Pinnacle is owned by Pinnacle Airlines Group...now Colgan is owned by them...Like GE owns Engines and NBC...they have nothing to do with each other....just a corporate umbrella....this stuff happens in all kinds of industries...not just airlines....5 hospitals where I live are owned by the same umbrella and they are all seperate entities.

Can the umbrella company put presure on the two subsidiaries to compete with each other...sur but no more than comparing each pilot group to another.

I do not see Colganites "Stealing" Pinnacle flying or vice versa...just a corporate move. The two airlines will stay seperate.....of course there is always a potential for bad stuff...but I think you will see them seperate.

I could see ALPA trying to jump all over this nd scare Colganites into believing that they need them or something......

Whatever....alls we can do is wait and see...as pilots we have no control.

my .02

 

[Beetle007]

My understanding is NWA does, and leases it to PNCL.

I have heard that is why NWA employees can pass ride for free on the RJs at pinnacle and Mesaba but they have to pay a small fee to ride on the props.

 

[veneratio]

I have a few buddies at Colgan who are close to upgrade, how will this affect the Colgan pilots?

 

[Sticky]

one time a hired a monkey to take for me in class. I would just sit there with my mind a complete blank while the monkey scribbled on little pieces of paper. At the end of the week, teacher says "class, I want you to write a paper using your notes". So I wrote a paper saying "hello! My name is Bingo. I like to climb on things. Can I have a banana? eek eek." I got an F. When I told my mom about it, she said "I told you never trust a monkey!". The end.