Originally Posted by goaround2000

The company formerly known as Asa, did not have the ability to purchase another company. The purchase was made by Skywest inc. plain and simple, and not open to interpretation. Skywest inc, then decided to merge ExpressJet with the former Asa. This is all public knowledge and published information from the documents that Jerry and co. put out at the time of the purchase.

Let's look at the facts and you decide:

The CRJ side is losing aircraft (700's that went to gojets), and now potentially losing 200 flying.

The company already decided that there will not be a flush bid due to training costs, and the precedent set by Pinnacle.

Because the ERJ side is significantly larger in numbers, there's nothing that can keep us from decertifying ALPA (see USAir east), and stretching this out for years if the outcome of SLI is not fair. The company knows this, and although integration is not part of their process, rest assure they will have influence over it.

In a fair system, seats and bases will be protected, possible seat locks and fences to go with them; and everyone will be unhappy! It's that simple really. Nothing else will be acceptable. Don't like it? Find another job, but regardless of what formula they use, this will be the outcome.