Originally Posted by
Phteven
They're giving us far too much information that would be damning if we didn't get this flying. If this were a straight bottom-dollar bid, they wouldn't have made it sound so cataclysmic if we didn't cave and give concessions. That's my opinion anyway, which is not shared by all and why it is not out of the question that this pilot group might actually allow the company to whipsaw them into concessions.
45 E175's at Skywest doesn't give AAG leverage. 15 there and 30 at Horizon makes all the marionette strings just the right length.
Leverage isn't what Air Group is interested in. They like dollars and stock price gains. Besides, they already have all of the leverage over us that they could possibly want. We're wholly-owned, with no chance of any other flying, we're the most expensive option, and our airplane is not a long-term solution. We're the person with their neck under the guillotine. We have no cards to play.
If leverage over Skywest is what they want, then all they need to do is go find the next cheapest regional.