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An International Affair
If you have read my first book, Rampage along Route 66 , which is a true crime story about a cross-country murder spree that started in...
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The Murder of NMSP Officer Rosenbloom
Prior to the COVID epidemic, 1971 rated as the second worse year for police officers who died in the line of duty (251) in the United...
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We're Going to Cuba! The Hijacking.
The people of New Mexico had heard very little, if anything, about the group called the Republic of New Afrika. The revolutionary group...
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The end of the holy VW
For those of you who have been following my blog since my first book, Rampage along Route 66, this blog post is for you. You may remember...
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Mesa Furloughs
On page viii of the introduction to my book Can Do Attitude: the mesa airlines story, I said, “I’ve tried very hard to get all of the...
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Update on my book
My book is now available on Barnes & Noble.com as well as Amazon. You can get it as a B&N paperback, Amazon paperback, Kindle, or Nook. I...
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My book is out!
Link to Amazon: Amazon.com: Can Do Attitude: the mesa airlines story eBook : Johnson, David: Kindle Store
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Book cover image
I am anticipating a big announcement on my book, perhaps as early as next Friday. Stay tuned, Today I am providing some background on the...
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Book Update
I’m getting excited that my book is coming together. I started working on this book about Mesa Airlines in early 2004. After nearly...
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Mesa invests in the future
Mesa Airlines is looking forward to the future with several forward-looking investments. Mesa has retooled their Mesa Pilot Development...
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Paying tribute to lost Mesa pilots
Let us not forget the fallen. In addition to Air Midwest flight 5481, which I covered in a post from September 8th of this year, Mesa Air...
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Mesa becomes an air cargo carrier
After the 2010 bankruptcy, Jonathan Ornstein was encouraged by a board member, who worked for Southern Air, to join the Southern Air...
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Mesa gets E-jets
While Mesa was working with American Airlines on becoming an American Eagle carrier, they also were working with United to expand their...
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Mesa becomes an American Eagle carrier
In February 2013, US Airways announced that it would merge with American Airlines. The merger was not immediate as anti-trust regulators...
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2010 Mesa Airlines Bankruptcy
The final straw was Mesa losing the Delta Connection contract. The company was already sitting on several idled airliners, and having...
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Mesa invests in China
In 2006, Mesa was searching for opportunities to use some of the idled CRJ-200s, and they decided to invest in a partnership in the...
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Let's Go! to Hawaii
Mesa decided to take a shot at competing in Hawaiian interisland flying after both Aloha and Hawaiian Airlines filed for bankruptcy. It...
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Freedom 2 the Delta Connection
As mentioned in an earlier post, US Airways declared bankruptcy for a second time in 2004, and offered its codeshare partners an...
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US Airways Express - Round Two
I mentioned in an earlier post that US Airways canceled the codesharing agreement with Mesa in 2005 following their second bankruptcy...
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Mesa partners with United, again,
When Jonathan Ornstein took over Mesa in 1998, the company was embroiled in a lawsuit against United Airlines over the canceling of Mesa...
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