Originally Posted by
newarkblows
They UNDER-bid Skywest/ASA/XJT which means that this flying is at a loss or the margins are incredibly thin.
Will Gojet be able to meet the performance requirements in their contract? To be quite honest I think this is a deal that was too good to pass up for Delta. The price was to good and is worth a shot (for delta) to see if it works out.
And at the end of the day, it's not really all that different than when XJT started Delcon ops out of LAX. Us being ALPA, doesn't matter. Us being better paid and having a better CBA than ASA at the time, doesn't matter. The 10 airplanes on CPA for Delta were at cost, the ones on the pro rate were done at (negative) cost. As you mentioned, it was simply too good a deal for DAL to pass up with very little risk. They got VERY cheap regional feed for LAX, and SLC, as well as place holders for those gates till they could reach their pre economic recession/oil spike plans that never materialized.
Again, our Delcon ops don't differ too much from what GoJets is doing.
Originally Posted by
strfyr51
Jet Blue is also Non-UNION are they also Despised?
Actually, by some, yes. It was extremely bad during the BK's. Especially out of JFK. It got so bad that the JS chair at the time for a particular legacy had to send out a memo to the his pilot group due to all the denial complaints he was receiving from the JB JS chair. He basically had to tell his pilot group to stop being a bunch of children and honoring the reciprocal JS agreement with JB. His memo was published on the ALPA message board.
Regional, lecacy, doesn't matter. Never doubt the pilots at ether spectrum to act like a bunch of egocentric/narcissistic children. Been going on for ages, it'll continue to go on.