About 10 months ago I lost my job and was looking for work. I sent a resume to Go Jet. At the time I didn't know anything about them. They called and offered a PIC position over the phone. So that got me wondering what was going on with them. I didn't take the job. However, I was kind of surprised by what I found in my research.

I called ALPA to find out where they stood on the company. They said that they had no issue with the company or any of the pilots.

I found this website where I got a ridiculed for brining up the subject.

The only ones that seems to give a crap about Go Jet being in business are the pilots at all the other airlines.

From a business standpoint Go Jet makes sense if you own the company. It was a way for them to get around contracts an a more expensive payroll. However, it never works out for them. Because, as soon as they have the chance the employee groups are going to get representation with a union. After a couple of years with the union trying to get the profits filtering to the employees it becomes a loser deal anyways. Freedom really transformed Mesa's profit base didn't it. So who will be the next company to try it. Which CEO has a big enough ego to think that they can pull it off.

Here were my reasons not to go work there:

Pain in the ass to commute to St. Louis
Getting the stink eye from pilots for the rest of my career
The pay

People are going to take those low level jobs. If someone wants in the industry bad enough they will take just about any job they can get. Its not like Go Jet is going to take down the industry with their 15 airplanes and 150 pilots.

As an aside only company that seems to be able to function without a union is Skywest.