Mesaba Airlines Poised for Massive Growth

[i fly boxes]

I'll preface this by saying that press releases/sources to follow shortly. i.e "speculation" for now.


200 new hires before the end of 2008
500 new hires before the end of 2009

Mesaba will receive their first 2 CRJ-900's to be operated as Delta Connection in February. We will then receive 2 a month until we have not less than 15 being operated for DCI. Management is expecting NWA to use the options they have for the CRJ-900's to give to Mesaba.
6 of the 900's we are rumored to receive will be operated by Pinnacle until the software issue is resolved that will allow Delta's software to integrate with Mesaba's (apparently the reason crewtrac crashed a few months ago)
Also, the American Eagle rumor is again surfacing. Training Department being told to hire at least 2-3 more instructors for the Saab, as Mesaba is looking to get at least some of American Eagle's SF340's.

All new airplanes to be operated out of ATL. The new ATL base to be as large as the DTW base ASAP.
The New Premier Regional Carrier for the New Delta.

You make me sick man, come on the "premier regional carrier" I hope i get that on my resume one day. Did you forget that there are 8 other regionals for Delta. Seriously what was the purpose of posting this crap.

 

[OneBadLT123]

XJ looking pretty good. Still some buzz going around regarding other rumors.

Who knows now, I lost track of wtf is going on a while ago. We'll see.

 

[General Lee]

Where do you guys get this stuff? 1/10 the number of 50-seaters? Pull your head out of your a**.

Oil is $64/barrel and back in the price range that makes 50-seaters very lucrative. Passenger bookings are poor from the recessed economy. Seems to me that 50-seaters are going to be the hot airplane in 2009.

No, the 50 seaters are still going away. The DC9 will be introduced in ATL for a lot of those routes that CRJs are now competing with Airtran 717s. The DC9 will be the hot airplane in ATL for 2009, not the 50 seat RJ. Cheap oil also makes the DC9 more economical, and they are needed against the larger 717s (compared to the smaller RJ).


Bye Bye--General Lee

 

[SEVEN]

This is great SEVEN!



Now we can create the new Mesa except it'll be worse than Mesa!


I can see why they want to create more jobs at the lower rate!

Hey, don't forget who taught you how to do turns around a point.

 

[SplitBar]

No, the 50 seaters are still going away. The DC9 will be introduced in ATL for a lot of those routes that CRJs are now competing with Airtran 717s. The DC9 will be the hot airplane in ATL for 2009, not the 50 seat RJ. Cheap oil also makes the DC9 more economical, and they are needed against the larger 717s (compared to the smaller RJ).


Bye Bye--General Lee

Just as long as we don't have to fly them to Lubbock !!! :smash:

 

[SEVEN]

No, the 50 seaters are still going away. The DC9 will be introduced in ATL for a lot of those routes that CRJs are now competing with Airtran 717s. The DC9 will be the hot airplane in ATL for 2009, not the 50 seat RJ. Cheap oil also makes the DC9 more economical, and they are needed against the larger 717s (compared to the smaller RJ).


Bye Bye--General Lee

It didn't take long for the General to chime in on the regional boards. I do agree with you however. DAL/NWA is going to continue to fly the crap out of the Diesel 9's. With oil almost below $50/barrel, the paid for DC9 is looking more economical every day.
The 50 seater however, will still be effiecient on some shorter routes if the plane is full. As long as oil drops below $50/barrel, there will still be a few Crj200's around.

 

[DoinTime]

No, the 50 seaters are still going away. The DC9 will be introduced in ATL for a lot of those routes that CRJs are now competing with Airtran 717s. The DC9 will be the hot airplane in ATL for 2009, not the 50 seat RJ.


Bye Bye--General Lee

Thanks for proving my point General. DC-9s will be pulled from MSP,MEM, and DTW to consolidate traffic in ATL. The 50-seaters will then be redistributed to the former NW hubs to fill in for the reduction in DC-9 traffic.

 

[777forever]

Not surprising did everybody miss the Conference Call?
http://seekingalpha.com/article/725...thwest-airlines-merger-call-transcript?page=9

Richard Anderson

The great piece here is between Compass and Mesaba you have the very best operators in cost structure. So, our goal with our contract carriers is to bring their margins down over time to more accurately reflect the overall margins in the industry. And Compass and Mesaba will give us that ability to shift flying from contract carriers to owned carriers at much better CASM.
Edward Bastian

It’s a work-in-process, so it hasn’t got that much attention. But between Compass and Mesaba there exists a holding company and they are actually already between those two carriers sharing functions, and we would expect that that would continue and would expand as times goes on.

 

[flyboyzz1]

Where do you guys get this stuff? 1/10 the number of 50-seaters? Pull your head out of your a**.

Oil is $64/barrel and back in the price range that makes 50-seaters very lucrative. Passenger bookings are poor from the recessed economy. Seems to me that 50-seaters are going to be the hot airplane in 2009.

Please pull your head out of your ass! If you think oil will be at $64 for long than you are very very mistaken. The only reason prices are dropping like they are is because of the markets drop, the election, and the overall economy. OPEC is dropping production and you can count on them to make further cuts to drive prices back up. This is temporary...very temporary.

 

[DoinTime]

Please pull your head out of your ass! If you think oil will be at $64 for long than you are very very mistaken. The only reason prices are dropping like they are is because of the markets drop, the election, and the overall economy. OPEC is dropping production and you can count on them to make further cuts to drive prices back up. This is temporary...very temporary.

*****Looking at history you will find that oil prices (adjusted for the value of todays dollar) have only exceeded $60/barrel three time over the past 140 years. Once in the 1870s, once in the 1970-80s, and currently. To think that the spike in oil prices over this past summer are a long term indicator of future prices is just*****asinine. Relatively speaking even $60/barrel is*****extraordinary*****high.*****