Pinnacle Airlines Corp.

Pinnacle Airlines Corporation
Company typePublic
OTC Pink: PNCLQ
IndustryTransportation
Founded1985
Defunct2013
Headquarters,
Area served
United States
Key people
  • Donald J. Breeding
  • Sean Menke
  • John Spanjers
  • Peter D. Hunt
RevenueUS$845 million (2009)
US$80.7 million (2009)
US$41.9 million (2009)
Number of employees
7,700
Subsidiaries

Pinnacle Airlines Corporation was an airline holding company in the United States, headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee, and was the parent company of Pinnacle Airlines and Colgan Air until Colgan was closed down in 2012. The company contracted its airlines to fly in the aircraft livery of other airlines such as Delta Air Lines and United Airlines.[1] The company filed for bankruptcy protection under Chapter 11 in 2012[2] and emerged from Chapter 11 in 2013 as a wholly owned subsidiary of Delta Air Lines.[3] The company's only surviving airline, Pinnacle, became Endeavor Air.[4]

  1. ^ "Delta to sell Mesaba and Compass for $82.5 million". Flightglobal.com. 1 July 2010. Retrieved 1 July 2010.
  2. ^ "Pinnacle Airlines, Operator of Delta Connection, United Express, and US Airways Express Flights, Files Chapter 11". Frequent Business Traveler. 1 April 2012. Retrieved 1 April 2012.
  3. ^ "Pinnacle Airlines emerges from bankruptcy as a Delta subsidiary". Star Tribune. May 1, 2013.
  4. ^ Phelps, David (January 25, 2013). "Pinnacle Airlines to move HQ, hundreds of employees to MSP". Star Tribune. Minneapolis Star Tribune. Retrieved September 6, 2014.