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Originally Posted by xjtpilot
Why does INC waste money on 2 set's of management teams, 2 set's of office staff, 2 sets of office leases, etc? Why not combine Skywest Airlines with ExpressJet Airlines and save money with synergies? If the company is not looking to save money ANYWAY it can than why should I subsidize them with a concessionary TA?
Lots of factors, the least of which are the financial burden of SkyWest to build and then maintain the facilities required to house such an operation in one location, and that's before you start mixing union and nonunion work groups.
They don't have to combine operations into one set of facilities for dispatch and scheduling. In fact, they don't need to have one air carrier certificate. They would just need to consolidate management, HR, support staff, etc. Although in the long run, they would save more money by combining everything. The same reasons they touted to the investors the savings of $70M/yr by merging ASA and XJT, apply to Skywest Airlines as well. I don't think it's so much combining non-union/union work groups as it is just maintaining their whipsaw business model. Even all the employee groups at Skywest Airlines were union, they would still want to keep us separate in order to perpetuate that whipsaw business model.