Originally Posted by
gloopy
Just another Howard Hughes wanna be egomaniac that's ridden the FFD gravy train to guaranteed piles of cash. The real world is vastly different, as he will find out. And he has it in for many tounsands of good jobs in this industry remaining after what its seen the last decade plus. Where exactly, even if he is successfuly, do you think all that capacity is going to come from? He's banking on leaching it from existing airlines to his. I hope he fails miserably. History is not on his side either.
I'm just wondering if there isn't some back story here. It really does seem that every time SkyWest is in the news you're right here with this same line about Jerry's ego and that our company is doomed to the same fate as ACA. What leads you to believe that SkyWest wants to sell its own tickets again?
Meanwhile, there is another regional airline called Republic that is helmed by somebody who probably
is a Howard Hughes wanna be (not that there's anything wrong with that), and they don't seem to garner the same level of hatred. Republic, after all, actually did buy two "mainline" carriers and even, in a way, operates Airbuses today.
Did SkyWest not give you a job back in the day or something? Or did Jerry steal your high school girlfriend? I think we all want major airlines to do as much of their own flying as possible, but I just don't understand why you so badly want SkyWest, specifically, to fail.