Originally Posted by
Ducksaucelover
Guess United is trying to consolidate its regionals to their exclusive carriers in order to have more control over them. I guess the whole Skywest jumpseat fiasco left a bitter taste in their mouth and opened their eyes.
Originally Posted by
falconkidding
Lol consolidate by giving skw more flying and more 175s.... Consolidate by reducing airframes operated by uax exclusive operators. Getting rid of their biggest uax exclusive operator...
lmao.
That jumpseat fiasco was manufactured entirely by their ALPA MEC. Management couldn’t care less, most UAL pilots know this, the only ones that are sour are some alpa rep or someone that got screwed in the past..and mgmt was getting ****ed at ualpa had to step in and fix it.
(Republic did the same thing we did)
Kirby isn’t interested in buying/financing more airplanes. The 50 seat market is nearly dead and theres nothing to replace it with. Skywest is the only one with the pockets deep enough to buy and own their aircraft. UAL won’t hesitate to take the route to the guy that can do it cheaper with out having to worry about staffing and still be on top.