Originally Posted by
air101
Regardless of who negotiated what... y'all do NOT make money. It's as simple as that, and weren't making money prior to being purchased.
Wrong.
Go look at some 10K reports.
ASA was making money for Delta hand over fist. It was SkyWest who bought ASA and negotiated a loss making CPA. The only reason ASA was sold is Delta couldn't unload Comair and they needed to sell an asset to finance their bankruptcy.
XJT was making money hand over fist before SkyWest attempted a hostile takeover in 2008 and started a bidding war, leading to a loss making CPA with CAL, followed by an acquisition and yet another loss making CPA.
You can hate us all you want, but it's your precious SkyWest that has wrecked two perfectly respectable and profitable regional airlines and mismanaged them into this cluster we have now.
Why do you have such animosity against us, by the way? It's not any pilot's fault we are losing money. Also, you guys stand to make some pretty nice benefit increases if our JCBA is ever finished, so you should be supporting us instead of slinging mud at us. Not to mention if we become profitable again, it makes SkyWest Airlines all the more stronger.