Lets keep the facts here, if it wasn't for the Pinnacle buyout of Colgan, Colgan wouldn't have existed beyond what it was. It would have done a few more years of Beech 1900/SF340 flying and then Mr. Colgan would have eventually tired of it and letting his business go. And there is no way a stand-alone Colgan would have had the money/capital to get 30 Q400s, which by the way was money used from the NWA bankruptcy convertible note of 191 million at the same time they told Pinnacle pilots their ALPA proposed contract would bankrupt the company, and when they displaced/downgraded Pinnacle pilots while non-union Colgan grew.I lived through it twice, as I was Colgan before Pinnacle bought us out and ran us into the ground.
No, those left will be the ones 1. are unhireable or 2. have hopes/dreams hung on the SSP or 3. still trying to get to any airline besides Delta nor another regional. Hopefully the applications are flying out there to anyone hiring.Whatever we are a year from now, we'll be a lot smaller and a lot happier because most of the SL will leave or get furloughed. Those left will be the ones that can truck through anything.
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