Editing Midwest Airlines (section)

===Acquisition by Republic Airways Holdings===
On June 23, 2009, [[Republic Airways Holdings]], Inc announced they would acquire Midwest Airlines for $31 million. The deal closed on July 30.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/rbssIndustryMaterialsUtilitiesNews/idUSN3144771120090731|title=Republic Airways completes Midwest purchase|date=July 31, 2009|work=[[Reuters]]|access-date=July 31, 2009|first=Karen|last=Jacobs}}</ref> Midwest became a wholly owned subsidiary of Republic Airways and continued to operate under current branding.<ref name="midwestairlines.com">http://www.midwestairlines.com/AboutUs/CompanyNews/RepublicAcquiresMidwest_20090623_CN.aspx {{dead link|date=September 2017}}</ref> The Midwest Airlines FAA operating certificate expired on November 3, 2009. The acquisition by Republic occurred just 22 months after TPG and Northwest Airlines paid $450 million for Midwest. The total loss of investment by TPG and Northwest was 93% or $419 million.

====Flight outsourcing to Republic Airlines====
On September 3, 2008, Midwest Airlines announced its plan to [[Outsourcing|outsource]] all of its flight operations to [[Republic Airways Holdings|Republic Airways]]. Republic began operating twelve 76-seat [[Embraer E-Jet family|Embraer ERJ-170]] jets under the Midwest Connect name while Midwest returned its 25 [[Boeing 717]] planes to Boeing under a lease renegotiation.<ref name="MidwestRepublicPR">{{cite web|url=http://www.midwestairlines.com/Templates/ContentTwoColumn.aspx?id=929|title=Midwest Airlines Announces Progress on Restructuring Plan|date=September 3, 2008|publisher=Midwest Airlines|access-date=October 23, 2008}} {{Dead link|date=August 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> While this change caused the additional layoffs bringing the total of pink-slipped Midwest pilots to nearly 300<ref name="ALPARepublicPR">{{cite web|url=http://www.dontoutsourcemidwest.com/DesktopModules/ALPA_Documents/ALPA_DocumentsView.aspx?itemid=15922&ModuleId=12567&Tabid=73 |title=Midwest Pilots Express Outrage at Airline's Deal with Republic Airways |date=September 3, 2008 |publisher=[[Air Line Pilots Association]] |access-date=October 23, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111005092733/http://www.dontoutsourcemidwest.com/DesktopModules/ALPA_Documents/ALPA_DocumentsView.aspx?itemid=15922&ModuleId=12567&Tabid=73 |archive-date=October 5, 2011 }}</ref> and total employee cuts for the year to 1,850,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jsonline.com/business/38824797.html|title=Midwest Airlines cutting 59 jobs}}</ref> Midwest indicated that it hoped to begin operating these new planes itself with Midwest crews in 8–12 months from that time.<ref name="MidwestRepublicPR" /> Additional aircraft from Republic were added to the operation in the form of larger [[Embraer E-Jet family|Embraer ERJ-190s]] in August 2009. [[Chautauqua Airlines]], a wholly owned subsidiary of Republic Airways, also began service as Midwest Connect in August 2009 using [[Embraer ERJ family|Embraer 135/145]] regional jets.

The Midwest branch of the [[Air Line Pilots Association, International|Air Line Pilots Association]] launched a campaign protesting the Midwest outsourcing plan shortly after it was announced. They argued that the pilots had already made significant concessions to help Midwest Airlines survive and that the company's new contract offers represented draconian demands.<ref name="dontoutsourcemidwest.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.dontoutsourcemidwest.com/Default.aspx?tabid=3561|title=dontoutsourcemidwest.com|publisher=[[Air Line Pilots Association]]|access-date=October 23, 2008}} {{dead link|date=September 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

====Merger into Frontier Airlines====
Midwest Airlines' final flight operated with a [[Boeing 717]]-200 and staffed with Midwest Airlines flight crews landed in Milwaukee on November 2, 2009.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.wisn.com/money/21501388/detail.html|title=End Of Era Arrives: Midwest's Boeing 717 Lands For Good - Project Economy News Story - WISN Milwaukee|date=November 2, 2009|work=WISN|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120222031332/http://www.wisn.com/money/21501388/detail.html|archive-date=February 22, 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref> Effective November 3, 2009, Midwest Airlines ceased to exist as an operating airline (allowing its [[United States Department of Transportation|DOT]] air carrier operator certificate to lapse). Midwest Connect flights operated by SkyWest Airlines also ended. Midwest Connect flights operated by Republic and Chautauqua Airlines would continue to operate using the YX code through September 2010.

On April 13, 2010, parent company [[Republic Airways Holdings]] announced that its Frontier Airlines and Midwest Airlines brands would merge under the Frontier Airlines name.<ref name="newname">{{cite news|url=http://www.jsonline.com/business/90750954.html|title=New name for Midwest-Frontier airline: Frontier|work=[[Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]]|first=Tom|last=Daykin|date=April 13, 2010|access-date=April 13, 2010}}</ref> Parts of the Midwest brand were incorporated into the Frontier brand as part of the merger, namely the Midwest cookie and the slogan of Midwest Airlines, "The Best Care In The Air."<ref name="newname" />Some Frontier Airlines [[Airbus A319]] aircraft also began operating on former Midwest routes using the YX code alongside Midwest Connect flights. 

On October 1, 2010, the midwestairlines.com website was shut down for future reservations (besides frequent flyer tickets), and shut down completely on October 28, and users redirected to Frontier Airlines' website. In early November 2010, Midwest's YX code was retired and adopted by [[Republic Airways (airline)|Republic Airlines]].

The Republic and Chautauqua feeder operations would then operate as Frontier Airlines. Several of the Embraer 170/190 aircraft retained the Midwest livery into late 2013 until their retirement or reassignment by Republic. The Chautauqua Embraer 135/145 fleet was repainted with the Frontier livery but were retired by January, 2013.