Originally Posted by MrStl

Gojet's economics don't appear to be sustainable. They are having to hire guys as FOs and pay them captain wages. They are screwing over FOs which tells all other FOs not to go there. They are paying triple time to fly on days off. Too many pilots have had bad experience with Gojet that the word is out and nobody will go there.

With United not going to renew there contract for 15 of the crj700s there is not enough mass to justify keeping Gojet going. They are now willing to pay this extra money because I believe it is all short term. The CRJs they got from Delta can go to Endeavor or Skywest who can fly them profitably. The other few planes can go back to the leasing company when the leases are up. Gojet can just be wound down. Gojet brought in the guys who did the shutdown of Comair and I think that is what will happen.

I suppose that they could fold Gojet into Compass or TSA but I believe they have given up on Gojet and are merely doing what they must to keep the planes flying until they can negotiate a shutdown schedule with Delta and the leasing companies. They have no long term plan.

The contract with the pilots continues to go nowhere because they don't need it to. They don't need guys long term anymore. What they are doing to the FOs shows they don't care about the future. There is not.

This stuff is not new. Braniff II acted similarly just before they shutdown as did Eastern. Those are my thoughts. I hope I am wrong. Nobody should worry though because the TSA pilots will insist that the Gojet pilots be given jobs there with their Gojet DOH seniority at TSA.