Originally Posted by
TheTransporter
You're not the cause of our problems, but you have not helped either. Brad and his cronies offered to outsource more of Horizon's flying if we didn't match skywests costs. Try raising the bar.
This was smokescreen. It is my understanding that Skywest was offering a deal too good to refuse (a cost they can absorb because they have such a diverse array of contracts). Why wouldn't Skywest management want to start off on the right foot with AAG? The first hit is always free...
AAG is presumably smart enough to know this (presumably..), hence why they have been rallying so hard for Horizon to "compete" - they don't want to have Skywest be their only CPA carrier. This is game theory, folks! They offer to outsource us, we offer to destroy their reputation - that's how hardball works. Well, this pilot group wasn't up for hardball, so here we are. We have ourselves (well, 69% of us anyway) squarely to blame, not Skywest.