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Pinnacle Airlines President & CEO, Sean E. Menke

IATA Code: 9E
ICAO Code: FLG
Corporate Address: Pinnacle Airlines, Inc
1689 Nonconnah Blvd
Suite 111
Memphis, TN 38132

Ph: 901 348 4100
Fax: 901 348 4130
Website: http://www.flypinnacle.com/
Main hub: Memphis International Airport
Country: United States
Business model: Regional/Commuter

Pinnacle Airlines is a major US regional airline based at Memphis International Airport with secondary hubs at Detroit, Atlanta and Minneapolis airports. Pinnacle Airlines uses a fleet of Bombardier regional jets to operate a network of services throughout the Southeast and upper Midwest regions of the United States. Services operated as Delta Connection fall within the SkyTeam Alliance.

Pinnacle Airlines is owned by Pinnacle Airlines Corporation, an airline holding company which also owns US regionals Colgan Air and Mesaba Aviation. The three airlines operate a capacity-outsourcing business model, operating regional and express service on behalf of the major US network airlines. The airlines operate under the brands Delta Connection (Pinnacle Airlines and Mesaba Aviation), and Continental Connection, United Express and US Airways Express (Colgan Air). Through its three airlines, Pinnacle Airlines Corp. has a presence across the US, Canada, the Bahamas, Mexico, the Virgin Islands, and Turks and Caicos Islands and hubs in Atlanta, Boston, Detroit, Newark, Washington Dulles, Houston, Memphis, Minneapolis and Salt Lake City.

Location of Pinnacle Airlines main hub (Memphis International Airport)

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Pinnacle reaches two-month agreement with United Continental

9-Feb-12 12:07 PM

Pinnacle Airlines warns of potential bankruptcy filing

23-Jan-12 1:53 PM

US Department of Transportation Filings: 05-Jan-2012

6-Jan-12 12:22 PM

Pinnacle Airlines to furlough 154 airport employees

20-Dec-11 10:39 AM

Pinnacle Airlines' senior VP of operations resigns

15-Dec-11 12:07 PM

Pinnacle Airlines Corp announces efforts to improve liquidity and profitability

9-Dec-11 10:47 AM

NTSB requests Pinnacle Airlines Corp provide information over 2009 crash

11-Nov-11 10:16 AM

Pinnacle Airlines expects a more positive revenue picture by 2013

7-Nov-11 3:02 PM

Colgan Air denies withholding information from NTSB over Continental Flight 3407 crash

7-Nov-11 1:11 PM

Pinnacle Airlines Corp revenue up 5.8% in 3Q2011

4-Nov-11 1:02 PM

Transfer of Mesaba jets onto Pinnacle’s certificate is 'triggering event for the company': CEO

4-Nov-11 12:37 PM

Mesaba Airlines to close two locations at Detroit Metro Airport

4-Nov-11 12:27 PM

Pinnacle Airlines 'disappointing' 3Q2011 results due in part to transitional phase

4-Nov-11 11:49 AM

Mesaba Airlines' Eagan headquarters to close in 2012

24-Oct-11 12:53 PM

Pinnacle Airlines and flight attendants ratify agreement

24-Oct-11 11:21 AM

FAA proposes civil penalties against Pinnacle Airlines

24-Oct-11 10:57 AM

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SkyWest reverses 1Q loss, goes beyond anticipated break even

4-Aug-11 4:12 PM

SkyWest resumed profitability in the second quarter when it posted net income of USD1.6 million on USD933.7 million in operating revenues, a dramatic turnaround from the first quarter when it posted its first quarterly loss in 23 years.

At long last, divestiture for American Eagle

21-Jul-11 1:31 PM

As expected, and as no other regional airline wanted to buy it, AMR is divesting its regional airline subsidiary American Eagle by spinning off Eagle stock to AMR shareholders. This was also expected since early reports said one of the options was to set up Eagle as an independent, publicly traded company with stock given to AMR shareholders.

Delta aggression toward US regionals revealed in latest earnings calls

10-May-11 10:30 AM

An interesting discussion as to how Delta is trying to change the financial dynamics of the US regional airline industry occurred during the Pinnacle Airlines conference call, as Dahlman Rose analyst Helane Becker frankly stated that Delta is not a good partner for any of its regional partners.

Delta announces 25% reduction in operations at Memphis

24-Mar-11 2:55 PM

In Apr-2010 while profiling US hubs, CAPA looked at Delta’s hub in Memphis (MEM). At that time we speculated that Memphis as a hub was vulnerable if reductions were to be made. Yesterday, Delta announced a 25% reduction in operations at MEM.

Air China tops airline Enterprise Value rankings; Delta second; no LCCs in top 10

16-Mar-11 9:53 AM

It would appear China has already reached its aim of creating a world-beating "super carrier" – at least in terms of financial size. Air China is by far the world’s biggest airline, based on a current ranking of listed airlines’ Enterprise Values (EV) assembled by the Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation (CAPA).

So you think you know your airline market capitalisation: Part 3

10-Mar-11 9:00 AM

The first part of this three-part report on airline market capitalisations described how Air China is valued more on the stock exchange than US carriers United-Continental, JetBlue, Hawaiian Air, AirTran, US Airways, American Airlines, Republic Airways and Skywest combined. In this final section, CAPA reviews some further interesting facts from the equity investment world.