Originally Posted by
IH8ROADS
I agree partly, if you have to file bankruptcy to be a major airline, then yes. Why dump money into planes you want to get rid of, ERJ's and CRJ's. Pilot shortage is near, "This isn't a knock at the LXJT pilot group" but I personally think LXJT was bought for the pilot pool. We all wonder why Skywest bought an airline with RJ's that nobody wants to fly anymore. A lot of pilots for a shrinking regional market.
Agreed, however I think it was more about acquiring the CPA with CAl then it was the pilot pool
Originally Posted by
xjtguy
Actually Joe, it started BEFORE being bought. After the 2008 CAL squeeze and reign of the Green Lantern is when it started. ATL just continued down that road. You could even back it up slightly from there, DelCon and Branded didn't get to piggy back everything off CAL. Watching them handle scheduling with CrewTrac and constantly screwing up PMR's and not paying correctly really isnt that different than the incompetence in ATL now.
Agree as well, all good points