﻿ US carriers seize acquisitions to survive - 5/3/2011 - Flight
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»  For US regional carriers, scale has been the key to survival
in the past year, as three major independent powerhouses have
emerged to capture the bulk of business from their network
partners - but how the country's regional industry will change
over the next five to 10 years is open to question.  In late
2010, SkyWest and Pinnacle positioned themselves to become
partners to the largest US carriers, as SkyWest purchased
ExpressJet and Pinnacle bought Delta's wholly owned subsidiary
Mesaba. Delta also sold another regional subsidiary, Compass
Airlines, to privately held Trans States Holdings.  US regional
consolidation has mirrored the spate of mergers among US network
carriers. For both sectors, this decade's era of consolidation
was kick-started in 2005, with the well-documented America West-
US Airways merger and Sky