Mesaba: Great Expectations....right...

[xjgearbtch]

Hulk chill out. Nothing will happen to XJ until the "merger mania belt" is won. It's out of our control. Enjoy sittin sideways, or get a job at another regional if Mesaba stresses you out this much. Mesaba is it's own animal and no matter how much b@tching that happens around here nothing will change. the only way it will is from the mainline down. So everyone complaining here get your time and get to a major, get involved in the union and make the changes from there.

I still stand by my previous statement we will get 36+ CRJ's tail # 100XJ through 300XJ. Spongebob will be out soon. Bill P. will take over as CEO. I hate to say it but he will hire outside Mesaba for the DTW CP.There will be growth, XJ management will get more militant(less labor friendly) than it is. We will grow but we will also have more labor issues. Do your research it's not hard to read the writing on the wall.

 

[SEVEN]

WHO ARE YOU?

That's a great question. I lay in bed at night not sleeping for hours trying to figure that out. I think YPF is a figment of our imagination. He exists only in the spiritual realm. He is like Keyser Sose.

 

[Hulk Hogan]

Seven -- homo!

 

[SEVEN]

Seven -- homo!

It's a JOKE M.B.!

 

[Napoleon TNT]

Hey-

What happened to that hanger in Montreal that was full of CRJ's in NWA paint? Wasn't there a couple of turkeys on here that swore they saw them? Where are those planes? Better yet, where are those turkeys?

 

[Hulk Hogan]

Seven, I always thought I heard strange crap going on in MSP back in the day. Those darn hotel walls were thin!

 

[Ridgeback]

I for one will never post names of people that told me something so take it for what it's worth. In reguards to the hangers full of Crj's in YUL my friend who was doing a DTW YUL high speed in the final days of the avro say a NWA painted CRJ 200 with a canidian "N" number was in one of the hangers. They, he and the captain, said they say it in one of the hangers while taxing. This was late Dec. Like I said don't give me any grief for not namming my source. If you don't believe then don't worry about it.

 

[Whataboutbob]

Who will play the NWA game. They are not going to accept a low bid from someone they cannot control.

As far as "Who will play the NWA game" goes, according to the press in the Minneapolis area they even have the MAC "Metropolitan airports commission" playing the game. By threatning to shift flying to other hubs from MSP they have the MAC sweating so bad about loosing business that they are going to give NWA a huge deal on operational fees out of MSP, even though NWA owes the MAC 260 million from previous hard times. Maybe someday somebody will call there bluff.

 

[Hulk Hogan]

Maybe it was one of those destined (crj200) for XJ prior to the bankruptcy. I heard they had atleast two more done but never got delivered.???

 

[GidgetDog]

Who is YPF? Why the Great Powerful Oz, of course! His posts are "all knowing!" Can't ya picture him fumbling with knobs and widgets behind a billowing curtain?

 

[i fly boxes]

i fly into YUL next week, I will go on a late night mission to find out whats going on. I will just sleep in one of the 900's and then report back to work the next day

 

[whaleroast]

YPF doesn't know squat. If Compass isn't going to happen, YPF, then why are there 13 furloughed NW FO's/CA's in St. Louis with Compass badges getting training on the E-190?

 

[YourPilotFriend]

YPF doesn't know squat. If Compass isn't going to happen, YPF, then why are there 13 furloughed NW FO's/CA's in St. Louis with Compass badges getting training on the E-190?

Fleet commonality. The difference between a 195 and a 175 is only the number of seats. So If NWA buys 150 ERJ's a mix of 175's and 195's. They dump the entire training and fleet setup costs to compass instead of the E195 operation at mainline. Staff compass with mainline pilots displaced from the DC-9 to mainline E195's. Sell off the 175 operation before it ever gets off the ground, keep the 195's at mainline. At that point you basically sold the entire startup of a new fleet at a profit. Some "other" regional will get the 175's and pay huge contract costs back to NWA.

 

[Hulk Hogan]

Anybody know a company that is dumb enough to buy an airline that hasn't made any money?

 

[SEVEN]

Seven, I always thought I heard strange crap going on in MSP back in the day. Those darn hotel walls were thin!

It was the sound of me beating my head against the freaking wall trying to figure out the difference between the ECU or the DECU.