Originally Posted by AboveMins

If the intent was to "make it work", they would have never forced us into money losing CPAs, that are still dogging us to this day. There never was any intent to make it work, they tried their hand at the whipsaw game, we responded with an overwhelming NO, and lost our collective rear end in the process. I'd say that nearly all of the crews I fly with at ExpressJet don't despise the airline at all, we despise the holding company. Inc is not an airline, they're a holding company. Our beef is with them, not the other side of the house.

On a side note, I had a new hire SkyWest FO on my jumpseat not too long ago, who spent about 30 minutes droning on about how we should be thankful to SkyWest Airlines for saving us back in 2009. We had a great chat afterwards, about how everything is really set up. Not sure what they're putting in the Kool-Aid during indoc over there, but someone needs to reign in the misinformation.

Ideally, I'd love to see XJT decertify ALPA, and join our SkyWest brothers and sisters in our own real union. Not some student council, not some corrupt national organization... But something that gives both our pilot groups some teeth to sink into Inc. Pipe dream, I know.

Anyway, this will be my last post on this matter. To the fine folks at SkyWest, keep fighting the good fight... We have your back. And, F-Inc for tearing to shreds two awesome airlines in ASA and XJT.