Originally Posted by
MatchPoint
It must be rough going through life so disgruntled, unhappy and angry. Life is far too short so you might want to seek some help before it's too late.
SkyWest was willing purchase ASA because it secured a 15 year contract through 2020 with nice margins for both sides. That contract also guaranteed a minimum percentage of DCI flying in both SLC and ATL but even with the profits ASA's making XJT's dragging them into the red. Remember Comair was also a cash cow for Delta who paid $1.8B for them in 1999 and then shut them down almost 13 years later (2012).
Would you rather Delta had shutdown ASA as well or are you so delusional as to think they wouldn't have?
Ah, I'm unhappy and disgruntled because I'm arguing with you on a message board. Got it! Dont'cha just love the internet.
Thanks for pontificating on the universally known reasons SkyWest bought ASA. Too bad Jerry poisoned that sweet deal by agreeing to make us the second lowest cost carrier in the DCI portfolio. You'd think such a shrewd businessman would have considered that DAL would just create 3 new carriers to undercut us, making such goal impossible. They just kept moving the goal posts and laughing all the way to the bank. Delta got the best of SkyWest! Doh!
As for your hypothetical shutdown of ASA, having been there, and involved in the union, I'd say not. Comair was shut down for many reasons, few of them had to do with profitability. Delta actually bought Comair to eliminate a competitor. At the time of purchase, very little of Comair and Delta's route map overlapped, and most of Comair's passengers left MCO or CVG on Comair, not Delta. Comair was also making a play to buy Spirit and become a large LCC right in Delta's back yard. The Comair pilots always resented DAL for that, and the strike was the result. That forever changed their relationship as DAL lost almost a billion dollars on that deal. Comair's fate was sealed.
ASA on the other hand was Delta's primary feed in the Southeast, but it was run by two trolls who stuck it to Delta at every turn and only cared about money. Our performance was abysmal. Delta bought ASA in order to gain control and straighten it out, Which they did. And the airline became even more profitable than it was before. They sold us because they needed the cash to finance the bk exit, and because they didn't want to take us down with CMR whose fate was already decided. They actually have a buyback clause in our contract with Jerry. Did you even know that? If they had kept us, we would probably have ended up like Pinnacle.
I'll agree our fate wouldn't have been as good as it is now, but they wouldn't have simply shut us down like Comair.
Now go ahead with another shallow ad-hominem attack since you're incapable of debating with facts, and are incapable of admitting you're wrong.