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Yep. Sounds like Mesaba is soon to blend with ASA. We were told we'd hear by the end of the week.

I hope you boys in the Diiiiirty South will be nice to us Yankees... ;) I hope all the pilots from both sides remember we are all on the same team.

Deltalina says: "Buckle up! There is a chance of rough air
ahead."

Butters, of course you will be welcome in the south!

Just so you know their are a bunch of Yankees down here too.
 
I wonder how many ex-mesa airplanse you could staff with what it takes to staff 28 saabs?
 
I do not know what the flow through agreement looks like but those on property will probably retain the ability to flow over to Delta. When you buy a company you by its contractual agreements also. After that who knows how it would work out.

Goat

Mesaba is currently owend by DL right? When CAL IPO'd XJT the flow thru went out the window.
 
Does anyone have a source? Rgt? Pc? Heard it through an AC vent?
 
I dont know why this would be good for Skywest /Atlantic Southeast unless:

They Renegotiated the "2nd lowest cost DCI carrier" clause

or

They are buying Airframes and not people


I have heard this about Comair too(I do not wish this to happen), but I have heard that Delta wants to close the doors of Comair by the end of the year.


Something is in the works, no doubt, but I doubt any of us has guessed the correct senario

Medeco
 
Delta has already said that the Saabs are going to be gone. What's to say that Big D wont liquidate Mesaba, get rid of the 19-200's (we all know how much Delta hates 50-seaters) and sell off the 900's to the highest bidder for a quick cash infusion???

That will leave them with one less wholly-owned headache to deal with....
 
ASA voted for PBS in what? February? Maybe this is the real reason behind the delay in it's implementation.

Software is still being written for PBS. Won't be online 'till probably January. As for this Mesaba rumour, who knows. I talked to SH and CT today and neither of them budged when asked about it. Either they are very good poker players or this is all just hot air.
 
I'm not wishing Harm on any pilots. I'm just trying to add numbers to get to 500 planes. If there was a merger then we should merge the lists.
 
Last I heard last week from CT & SH was that most of the rumors floating around do have some truth to it. Also hinted that ASA tried to buy compass but Delta was asking to much $$$$
 
The interesting part will be the Mair Letter, in relation to additional flying. Let's see how this pans out.
MAIR no longer exists, how can the MAIR letter have any impact on Mesaba which is no owned by Delta?

There is absolutely no chance that Sky West will buy Mesaba? Why wouldn't Delta just put out an RFP for the flying and have Sky West win it? That way they could shut down Mesaba and fly the same fleet with new hire pilots, and lower costs aka Compass?
 
I'm not wishing Harm on any pilots. I'm just trying to add numbers to get to 500 planes. If there was a merger then we should merge the lists.



No Harm? sounds to me that you are happy about Mesa going TU so you can get their planes, Isn't Mesa ALPA?
 
If it does happen I think they will be operated seperately just like we are now.
 
Yep. Sounds like Mesaba is soon to blend with ASA. We were told we'd hear by the end of the week.

I hope you boys in the Diiiiirty South will be nice to us Yankees... ;) I hope all the pilots from both sides remember we are all on the same team.

I'm Atlantic Southeast and I hope this means a better life for the both of us. If anyone at our company behaves as though we're at odds, point them out. We eat our own and are working to abolish all a$$ho1es.
 
I'm Atlantic Southeast and I hope this means a better life for the both of us. If anyone at our company behaves as though we're at odds, point them out. We eat our own and are working to abolish all a$$ho1es.


Starting with the faux hawk, soul patch, skinny tie, emo kid.
 
I am hearing things "similar" to this too. What is planned may not be what happens.

ASA wanted CPS from what the rumors state, but they may be going somewhere else. It may not be the airline but just the jets. I have assumed for a long time that they would sell the jets and not the cert.

Mesaba will probably be sold as a whole. SKW Holdings is a good guess. Not sure if they would merge with EV, but they could. A lot to be decided on that one \

OH does not make sense in their current form, and I bet their jets are awarded to EV.

All just guesses, but I have been hearing about this for over two years.

It will leave a few regionals flying for DAL.
 

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