Great Lakes to buy Mesa

[OB-CPO]

I'm not kidding.

Big Sky Airlines successor struggling

Douglas Voss, board chairman and a founder of Cheyenne, Wyo.-based Great Lakes, said Tuesday to about 20 members of the Montana Essential Air Service Task Force and other officials from the seven Eastern Montana cities served by Big Sky.

Big Sky's holding company, MAIR Holdings Inc. of Minneapolis, announced last month that it is selling the airline's assets and will effectively go out of business.

Big Sky has leases with Mesa Airlines for 10 airplanes, but taking over those leases also won't be easy.

"Aircraft is a far more complicated issue. It could end up in the courts," Voss said.

If Mesa Airlines asks for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the next few weeks, that could free up the 10 planes for Great Lakes to serve its Montana routes.

 

[XPOO]

Wow, you have the same journalistic integrity as Fox News. Congrats.

 

[OB-CPO]

Don't shoot the messenger! You gotta admit though, how embarrassing for Johnny no balls.

After all the little corporal has been through and his grandiose ideas for world domination crumble in Hawaii, who is the first to announce they will be going after Mesa's assets?

Great Lakes' Doug Voss!

 

[XPOO]

It would be the greatest day in aviation history, but in no way does Great Lakes have the capitol to be buying all of Mesa's assets. But 10 aircraft is a good start.

 

[OB-CPO]

10 airplanes here, 5 airplanes there, a fleet of ERJ's to the highest bidder, a warehouse full of CRJ spare parts so much to choose from. It's going to be a regional airline shopping spree!

Doors open early! Don't miss it!

 

[OB-CPO]

Photo of Voss describing how he will get airplanes, I can't see the entire text because he blocks it but look at how he has MESA underlined.

http://www.billingsgazette.net/content/articles/2008/01/16/news/local/21-bigsky.jpg

And then Johnny O goes out with a whimper not a bang.

 

[XPOO]

linky no worky

 

[CoATP]

Perhaps its says MESABA? Want an SF340 or two for a little more capacity?

 

[Poahi]

I'm not kidding.

Thanks for the update, cause last week, I was hearing that it was Yucaipa, again.

 

[CitationLover]

It would be the greatest day in aviation history, but in no way does Great Lakes have the capitol to be buying all of Mesa's assets. But 10 aircraft is a good start.

great lakes has capital.

where the legislature sits is a capitol.

 

[XPOO]

zzzzzzzzzzzz

 

[Soverytired]

Wow, you have the same journalistic integrity as Fox News. Congrats.

Journalistic integrity is a myth.

Like any other business, mega-media conglomerates primary function is to sell product (in this case, drive up viewership for advertising). Doesn't matter if it's CNN, FoxNews, MSNBC with their tool-in-chief Keith Obermann, or Page 3 of "The Sun"; they all have axes to grind and product to sell.

However, who would argue that Fox News Babes are by far the hottest? (excluding Page 3 of the Sun, of course)

(Oh, and Great Lakes is not going to buy Mesa. Puh-lease)

 

[OB-CPO]

http://mesahub.com/wordpress/2008/01/17/air-war-latest-ornstein-just-blinked/

 

[John Pennekamp]

Doug Voss rides again! He's going to buy Mesa and move the whole thing back to SPW. The Prime Rib will be returning to its original glory, and Lake Okoboji will be the summer Mecca it once was! Good times are here again! You heard it here first!!! See you at The Captain's Getaway. "Where Beauty Is Only A Light Switch Away"!