Comments on: Mesa Files Bankruptcy, Looks to Shrink By Nearly Half

By: Nicholas Barnard

Nicholas Barnard — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 17:11:06 +0000

The other thing is the FAA automatically steps up monitoring of an airline when it is in Bankruptcy.

By: CF

CF — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 14:37:53 +0000

I don’t have any information that would say otherwise.

By: rosie

rosie — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 14:22:22 +0000

all I want to kow is .is it safe to fly on the plane !

By: CF

CF — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 22:32:04 +0000

AS wrote:

Is this is Mesa’s position, or was this statement validated by a qualified uninterested outsider?

This is what Mesa told me, but I confirmed it with someone else who has bankruptcy experience not at Mesa.

By: AS

AS — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 22:26:24 +0000

“Just heard back from Mesa. Those clauses allowing for termination are unenforceable but they’re put in there just in case the bankruptcy laws ever change. So there is no risk of those contracts being terminated because of that provision.”

Is this is Mesa’s position, or was this statement validated by a qualified uninterested outsider?

By: dan powers

dan powers — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 21:05:03 +0000

I feel bad for mesa pilots…the future at mesa is bleak…the 22 emb-145 at freedom/ cvg-cincinati have their days numbered…if you look at the last few skyguides you will notice CVG is barely a HUB…there are only flights on delta -mainline to 13 destinations…some of those, once daily. the paris flight is the only widebody and only international flight(except cancun). which makes no sense to me…to have a 767 crew base in cvg for 1 daily flight…this flight should be moved back to detroit.

By: CF

CF — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 18:17:10 +0000

archie mattox wrote:

@ CF:some of the carriers have limits on number of airplanes and size and capacity and trying to finance is a no brainer

Right, but we're not talking about adding new airplanes. This would simply be some other regional carrier picking up airplanes from Mesa and flying them for the mainline partner. It would be the same size and number of airplanes that are already flown. If there's a guaranteed contract with the major, then financing shouldn't be an issue either.

By: archie mattox

archie mattox — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 17:02:27 +0000

@ CF:some of the carriers have limits on number of airplanes and size and capacity and trying to finance is a no brainer

By: CF

CF — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 16:31:23 +0000

archie mattox wrote:

The main problem is scope clauses with the majors and may not be able to add more planes

I don't see how scope clauses would impact this. This wouldn't be an expansion of the express fleets but rather just a shift of aircraft from one operator to another.

By: archie mattox

archie mattox — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 12:28:29 +0000

@ Ed Casper:The main problem is scope clauses with the majors and may not be able to add more planes