The only parallel between the CRJ's going away and our current situation is that in both cases, the decision was made before there were ever any negotiations. The company has made some clever moves here to create animosity between the pilot group and the union. The union told them to **** off when they asked for a cut to the CRJ rates, and the company then made it look like they went away because of the union. Now they're riding that wave by getting the union to push this garbage to the pilot group because the union doesn't want to get burned at the stake by the pilots. There is no way the union can get ahead of this and look like the good guys.

As has been said tons of times here on APC - AAG will not **** over Horizon, at least not right now. If they screw Horizon over in the future it will be regardless of the outcome of this TA. We cannot compete with Skywest's unit costs, but we aren't competing with them anyway even if AAG says we are. The company has been talking WAY too much about these jets going to QX to be serious about possibly sending them to OO.