Originally Posted by
Captain Tony
I was referring to the ASA division of SkyWest, moron. Try to pay attention.
When you refer to SkyWest track record of not furloughing you can only be talking about Airlines, not ASA.
Originally Posted by
Captain Tony
Ah, I'm unhappy and disgruntled because I'm arguing with you on a message board. Got it! Dont'cha just love the internet.
Originally Posted by
Captain Tony
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.
You’re telling this to a guy who has provided sources unlike you? You claim that ASA was so important to keeping Delta alive but the truth is Delta lost their ASS on ASA? ASA was earning less than $100M/yr. in profit but Delta was bleeding more than 10X that. Also in the end when the dust settles on the ASA purchase Delta will have paid SkyWest MILLIONS to take ASA off their hands. Which means Delta lost here ass on ASA after paying just under $900M for them, selling them of less than half and then paying guaranteed profits for 15 years that more than double their purchase price. In the end Delta will have lost well over a Billion dollars on ASA. Also the $425M SkyWest paid Delta was a drop in the bucket when it came to Delta’s cash on hand and financing options during that time period. ASA was nothing more than another headache they paid a premium to get rid of and SkyWest was willing to help them out in order to strengthen their partnership.
You are a very miserable person. Again life’s too short to be so angry.
Last edited by MatchPoint; 07-07-2013 at 07:38 AM.