Originally Posted by
da42pilot
Butthurt and ignorant. And to think you started your post with the question, “jealous of what?”.
Expressjet wasn’t the lowest bidder and I promise you that. If we were so cheap, Skywest would have kept us and grown us.
Buying Expressjet was a strategic move by United. They didn’t buy us because we were the lowest bidder, had the greatest performance. They bought us because they need a regional of size, with experience running a large operation, the infrastructure, which commutair clearly doesn’t.
Skywest destroyed Expressjet and it’s going to take some time to fix it. In the mean time, yes we have a good contract, yes we have a good company(with a good history with employee relations), and yes we appear to have a stable future. Nothing incorrect about any of that.
You appear to be lacking in elementary economic skills. UA has EIGHT regional feeds. Why is that? Do I really need to explain?
In a perfect world, mainline would give regionals with the best performance the flying. You know because cancelled flights angers customers which potentially choose to take their business elesewhere which translates to lost profits for the big wigs. Simple. Ask Delta how it’s done!
Not jealousy, but lots of frustration when the sub par guys that still can’t prove themselves get the flying contracts. UA will always be cheap and it’ll catch up.