Expected MESA shutdown?

[OUPilot01]

It would be nice to finally see a bottom tier airline go under. I have trouble finding sympathy for their pilots after seeing what happened to ACA, Air Wisconsin, Comair ect.. Every time a regional tries to raise the bar they get b*tched slap down because places like mesa have pilots that do not value their profesion. In down swings like this pilots are going to lose their jobs and regionals are going to go under. I would much rather see it be a bottom of the barrel airline. Its like having a dead weight cut off the collective pilots back. Then at least when pilot groups try to get better contracts, managment cant point to mesa and say "see those guys are willing to fly for sh*t contracts."

 

[NuGuy]

Heyas,

Been out of the regional game for a while. But Mesa took down a lot of "old school" names during their reign:

1) Crown
2) Part of Allegheny
3) Air Midwest
4) Westair
4) Whoever else...

What goes around, comes around. Karma is a bitch.

Nu

 

[rickair7777]

Heyas,

Been out of the regional game for a while. But Mesa took down a lot of "old school" names during their reign:

1) Crown
2) Part of Allegheny
3) Air Midwest
4) Westair
4) Whoever else...

What goes around, comes around. Karma is a bitch.

Nu

CC Air
Aloha

 

[rene]

Mesa will not liquidate. First of all IF they go into bankruptcy they will be PROTECTED from Delta, United and Airways cancelling the contracts. Plus why would they cancel?

Mesa would then reject the surplus aircraft leases, possibly reject and/or renegotiate even better labor contracts and emerge as an even lower cost, higher quality operator.

Each of the current partner airlines plus some new ones would then use this new cost structure as the base upon which every other regional would be measured.

This is why IT IS IN THEIR BEST INTEREST to keep Mesa alive and well.

 

[Metro752]

Mesa will not liquidate. First of all IF they go into bankruptcy they will be PROTECTED from Delta, United and Airways cancelling the contracts. Plus why would they cancel?

Mesa would then reject the surplus aircraft leases, possibly reject and/or renegotiate even better labor contracts and emerge as an even lower cost, higher quality operator.

Each of the current partner airlines plus some new ones would then use this new cost structure as the base upon which every other regional would be measured.

This is why IT IS IN THEIR BEST INTEREST to keep Mesa alive and well.

They would not be protected from contracts being canceled. That is not what bankruptcy is for.

Also, common knowledge:

AWAC, PSA, and Republic all fly CRJs.

 

[rickair7777]

Mesa will not liquidate. First of all IF they go into bankruptcy they will be PROTECTED from Delta, United and Airways cancelling the contracts. Plus why would they cancel?

100% BS!

BK protects YOU from having to pay YOUR debts or fulfill YOUR obligations.

It does NOT require require anyone to pay you money unless they would have been required to anyway, pre-BK.

Even worse for mesa...pretty-much all regional contracts have an escape clause whereby the major can fire the regional immediately if the regional is insolvent.

Since all majors are looking to cut RJ capacity, a mesa BK would simply serve as a free and easy way to ditch some capacity...as much as mesa sucks, it is nothing personal against them, the majors would do it to any regional which got itself into that position.

 

[ultrarunner]

Mesa likely doesn't have the cash to go through a BK. I'd I'm going to take a stab that borrowing that cash might be bit hard right now.

 

[damnflyboy]

Mesa and the cockeroach will outlive everyone.

Taa HAHAHAHA!!!

Ohhh junk!

Dr. Snap...Paging Dr. Snap to the Burn Ward!

Nice.