Originally Posted by
paxhauler85
1) Airframes - maintain them and their just as good as your airplanes.
We've got a handful of planes from other carriers, and I'm confident that they are maintained now, but with few exceptions, there's always something.
Of course, none of the Comair birds have ACARS, and the ASA birds that we got were probably the ones that ASA didn't want. We have a few "blue ridge" planes on Midwest service, and the cockpits just looked sad. Rode hard and put away wet.
2) I'd say a solid 75% of our guys are pretty stand up guys and damn good pilots. Especially those dash guys. Think of what we deal with daily, and the fact that we do it safely (knock on wood). Those same guys would radically change their attitudes when being under the command of competent people, who aren't fellons.
As you know, SkyWest has TONS of Mesa pilots. Honestly, they're way better than any off the street hire, since they KNOW how bad it can be. I bump into Mesa guys from my new hire class regularly, and I don't think you could PAY them to come back to Mesa.
Fire JO and everyone else in a position of power, and fill those positions with competent men and women who know how to properly run an airline.
JO wouldn't survive. He get a golden parachute, and shown the door (assuming the whole operation isn't being bought through BK liquidation).