Originally Posted by
texaspropguy
....about 5 yrs ago. Not any more. United **** in their own bed by trying to manipulate their regional feed to squelch the upsurge in spinal character towards fighting for quality changes in RJ QOL and pay. Eagle voted no to concessions with us I th vote heard around the ALPA world. Now not only does XJT pay for that, but United is paying for trying to alter-ego us out of the market. The only winner so far has been OO, Spirit, Alligiant (2 airlines hiring 0-TPIC to narrowbody aircraft), and the other regionals our FO’s are going to after a year or so to do street captain. All of this weakening United as a result.
Possibly.... Both C5 and YV are struggling to staff IAD. XJT has many resources on the CRJ side. I would agree that XJT has an opening in IAD. I am not exactly sure why it needs to be CRJ’s unless United has those jets becoming available from another base. If SGU’s past behavior is a predictor of future behavior, I would expect OO to open a CRJ base at IAD for United before XJT though. OO is already lining up flying into IAD on the CRJ200 for EAS.
I am on the side of believing that XJT is being set up to be sold to United once the American business is wound down. Providing severance packages points to XJT as a going concern, which only makes sense if XJT is either going to remain in business or is going to be sold.