Originally Posted by
gojo
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.
Yeah, you're right, its not really their fault. I think ALPA has tried to go to Skywest but the pilots said no in the past. Pilots are our own worst enemy, we could still be making a lot more even here. But there's too many people in the profession at least at the regional level that as best I can describe it are against getting paid, which I don't understand. Yes if we simply demand we not only will get our shiny jet but we can also get paid a lot to fly it as we should. I guess when you graduate from ERAU you don't care about making money, however, at somepoint reality has to set in, but when you set the standard at basically working for free for so long its hard to change it.
Anyway, make sure you wear your hat and make them gate announcements every 5 minutes on the dot.