DoinTime
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Whatever is happening, NWA wants the remaining 44-seat orders to go to Mesaba. I'm not sure how many this is, when, or why. Keep in mind this also explains why the NWA MEC is not involved. It doesn't concern them.
Well, there will be 10 CRJ's left when Pinnacle receives their deliveries per our service contract with NW. Something more feasible would be Mesaba's purchase of Chicago Express, transfer the remaining Saabs to the Mesaba operation and putting the CRJ on that certificate. Then they could get in on the additional 40 50-seaters that may become available.
Possible flow-through? I, and many other at NWA believe that flowthrough is a good idea. It would cause some short term headaches, but long term it would benefit everyone. We tried to pursue it about 10 years ago and was told that the Mesaba MEC was against it.
That P.O.S. our mainline brothers offered years ago was not a flow thru. Offering a minority of INTERVIEW positions in exchange for flowback was an insult to the pilots of both Mesaba and Express I. Now that the devastating effects of a flowback are known (Eagle, CoEx) that portion of an agreement will never be back on the table. Any kind of flow thru in the future will have to bought and paid for solely by the mainline pilot group. Somehow I don't see that happening.