Originally Posted by
JustAMushroom
Just more revisionist history. The fact of the matter is XJT was on their last leg when their last ditch effort in California didn't pan out.
The management (not pilots) put XJT in a loose loose place. They agreed to terms that were not sustainable. By terms I don't mean only pilot pay rates.
There was a valiant effort put out by everyone involved in the California expansion but like so many others before you, it didn't pan out.
So you were faced with extinction or a crap sandwich. Inc thought they could turn your company around by forcing your inept management out and running the place better. I don't blame you for not taking concessions. I wouldn't have voted for them either. But I do blame your stubbornness for opposing every single improvement regardless of if they cost you personally anything. And SkyWest employees and shareholders subsidized your company for years while you all learned to get it together.
No matter now. The SGU team just took longer to make the turn around.
Revisionist history? I posted the letter that proved what happened. We got whipsawed by Skywest pilots lower compensation. They asked for concessions and we're going to take some of the 145s for themselves while they offered 750 furloughed pilots preferential interviews. Obviously xjt was NOT on its last leg as xjt went on for more than 2 years after that. Every quarter the losses shrunk. Xjt got flying for UAL and were about to get the U.S. air flying in phx until Skywest nixed that and took it for themselves after they bought xjt. As for Skywest employees subsidizing anything other than your own low total compensation, unless you took a concession, you haven't subsidized or given anything up to anyone. In fact, the cash on hand at xjt when Skywest bought xjt has been the actual subsidy. Which is why they haven't been in an urgent hurry from day one to get this merger finalized. It's you who are trying to revise history. I had a front seat on all this and this is how it went down. And the fact that you blame pilots for our supposed stubbornness is telling and typical of Skywest people. We voted down concessions but we haven't said no to anything else they proposed to us that has improved things, albeit marginally. And the erj side has been negotiating implementation of PBS before a JCBA. If that's not a show of goodwill I don't know what will convince you Skywest people that none of this is the pilots' doing.