Originally Posted by
1337pilot
Skywest let them go that way so DL would do exactly what DL did, end the XJT contract. Skywest wants to get rid of XJT because XJT has a union which Skywest is very against. I'm sure they offered all the XJT pilots a nice spot right at the bottom of their seniority list.
Oh I’m fully aware of the chain of events since Skywest purchased ASA. It was all about market share. Even now they’re coming out ahead with a bunch of new E170 somethings in exchange for a bunch of those 700’s. I just get a little frustrated when people say ExpressJet sucks or their planes are junk. They ran a pretty good airline before Skywest got a hold of them. And if Skywest pilots had any kahunas and realalzed their self worth the gap between the two groups would probably have been negligible. I guess if I owned two companies and one company *****d themselves out for say 25% less (just throwing a number out) I’d probably do the same thing.