Originally Posted by Captain Tony

"Money losing CPA".

SkyWest bought Legacy ExpressJet to eliminate the competition. Period. All they got for their ~$26 million was the CPAs, the ground equipment, and the ground stations (now shut down). UAL still holds the leases on all of the ERJs. Their strategic plan all along has been to extract the concessions they felt was necessary to make it profitable, relative to SkyWest Airlines and ASA, or shut it down and fly the CPAs with their own metal. (SkyWest airlines and ASA).

Their biggest mistake was agreeing to merge ASA and ExpressJet instead of keeping them stand along entities. There was no way L-ExpressJet was going to give up the outliers in their contract that make it so expensive like LTD, DC retirement, OJI Bank, and 90% PPO.

All I can say further without reaching the limits of confidentiality agreements is that I hope the XJT MEC abandons the chest thumping rhetoric and thinks long and hard this week of the futures of about 2000 pilots. It's all in their hands... we are down to the wire.