MAIR Holdings

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MAIR Holdings (NASDAQ: MAIR) is an airline holding company based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It was established in 1993 as Mesaba Holdings, Inc., to serve as the company for Mesaba Aviation, Inc., which operated Mesaba Airlines. In 2002, MAIR also acquired Big Sky Transportation, Co., operator of Big Sky Airlines.

Mesaba, which operated as a Northwest Airlink regional airline, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on October 13, 2005, a result of downsizing occasioned by the earlier bankruptcy of Northwest Airlines. As part of the reorganization of both carriers, Northwest acquired Mesaba on April 24, 2007, and Mesaba now operates as a subsidiary of Northwest. This left Big Sky as MAIR's only remaining airline.

Following a series of ill-fated expansion attempts, in December 2007 Big Sky announced plans to cease operations. The airline's last flights were on March 8, 2008, and the airline is now being liquidated.

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