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CPA just like pilot contract is amendable at anytime! How good would it be for SKW to argue with United as the 50 seated cost rise and United doesn't help them all the meanwhile larger RJs CPA expire and Delta parks 50 seaters at a faster rate! Tell you what, you might not have amanning issue just like us at Eagle and Pinnacle! We aren't managment and we don't know what this guys will do, but one thing we do know is that they will do whatever is in their power to reduce our wages and increase our "productivity". Please, please don't sit there thinking we are safe because of our contract or CPA!
So what do you recommend I do? Sit around worrying all the time and tell people not to come here? I'm proud of our contract and our work rules and would tell anyone to come here over many other places. With a little seniority you can have great QOL and make decent money by industry standards. Will it last? Who knows, but I don't have control over that. Any of us could be gone at any time I get that, but I will continue to do anything I can to better the profession until we go under. My point is out of all the other regional operators out there, Skywest is the only one I would want to be associated with from a financial standpoint. People always talk about the 50 seaters. Well, there will always be some need for them, and to quote the earnings call, it is Skywest and XJTs hope that we will be the companies used to fill those voids, however much smaller they may be in the future. ExpressJet hasn't lost money in 3 months now, so I'd appreciate it if people still stuck on that bandwagon would get the heck off. Mark my words, we will show a profit as a whole in Q2 and thereafter.