Originally Posted by
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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.
Never desired to work for SKyWest. Ever. That said, they used to be one of the better run regionals. I guess that's still true, although its hard to tell when they own almost every other regional (slight exaggeration).
And "Howard Hughes wanna be" may be an insult but its at least a thinly veiled insult. HH was at least cool to some degree. I don't know of anyone that says BB is cool. Many do say he reminds them of a cucumber, however. YMMV.
I think SKYW is a much bigger threat to go IndyAir II not only due to JA's ego, but also by the time they go live they'll be sitting on the better part of a billion in cash from the no talent legacy FFD gravy train. They will have far more "marketshare" wrapped up in staggered contracts that will force legacy airlines to fund their "core business" while they flail around playing Airport Tycoon with 120 seat E2's or whatever they end up playing with. RAH has a lot of similarities, but SKYW is simply way bigger in scale and will be a much more damaging competitor. They will bleed legacy airlines many billions before they whiz through their one.
They will fail, but they will hurt the legacy airlines far more than RAH before they do.