Originally Posted by
drrhythm2
Not to send the thread in an entirely different direction, but I can't imagine one reason why the SLI would or should favor ASA. Because they have a few people that have been there forever? Despite what many over there seem to think, they didn't buy us. They had no involvement in our purchase at all; they were simply acquired by Skywest.
While ASA did not wholly buy XJET, ASA was in a much better position finically than XJET. ASA had been generating strong profits for years while XJET had been bleeding cash like crazy. Obviously this is not the pilots fault, as management is to blame, but the attitude that ASA had nothing to do with the ability to purchase XJET is a bit exagurated. Skywest Inc is where the profits flow, so of course that's where the money comes from when all the outstanding stock is purchased. The strong profits from ASA thus played a role in the acquisition. If it wasn't for the whole surejet fiasco, the name expressjet and the certificate would no longer exist. I'm sick of all these legacy expressjet guys I bump into acting as if they "saved" ASA and they run the show.