Originally Posted by
Fly782
The hmmm is from the excerpt in the latest ALPA email. Interesting is all.
On Tuesday, August 21, elected pilot leaders from Atlantic Southeast and ExpressJet of the Air Line Pilots Association, Int’l, and the pilot representatives of SkyWest Airlines met face-to-face for the first time. The pilots spent a portion of the meeting, held in Denver, with senior executives from SkyWest and ExpressJet Airlines, and had open discussions with SkyWest Inc. CEO Jerry Atkin and President Brad Rich. Topics included the status of the industry, SkyWest financials, the possible integration of the three pilot groups, future aircraft orders, and ongoing negotiations at ASA/XJT
The whipsaw is no longer effective. Inc sees the value in combining the two business units into one to cut overhead and in turn decrease unit costs. Word around the GO is that the corporate side of the integration should be complete in the 2015 time frame. Labor? Who knows. Denver was the first step down that long path.