Mesa Airlines, a Turnaround Story to Ease the Summer Doldrums

Since nothing right now is pushing airline stocks uniformly higher, and since we expect this quarter to range from fairly uneventful to painful for the major companies, what's left to get excited about in the airline sector?

The situational players.

As longtime readers will recall, when the markets tend to shun the airline stocks (or what most people think of the airline stocks -- i.e., major airlines), what we usually see is movement in the oddball stock. While the majors usually do little more than hold their cruising altitude during these periodic doldrums, you can find movers by looking in the nooks and crannies. ...