Originally Posted by
ninerdriver
I think this SkyWest buying 9E thing is a bunch of hooey anyway, so I'm not worried. I am curious, though, because I don't see the following in the contract.
What would keep an acquiring company from buying 9E, not merging the lists, and letting operational performance at 9E (like maintenance or OCC-based performance, for recent example) degrade to the point that our flying isn't renewed? Maintenance is as good as the budget will take it, as is starting with enough fuel to make prudent operational decisions off the gate.
You'd have to take a deep dive but essentially if they buy us they are saying they can't wait to give their pilots our contract under alpa. Day before purchase, theyre whatever they are, day after purchase, congrads you're now a union pilot take a lanyard and see you for pizza at recurrent.
Union contracts of any ilk, dont have any control over how idiot managers run the business. If they want to plow it in, they can, hard. If the company ceases to exist our contract is meaningless. It takes months to tank a company, and the airplanes won't be guaranteed to skywest, nor would delta ever forgive skywest for that disruption.
I don't know what you're talking about with gas and prudent decisions. You're the PIC.