Originally Posted by
jacburn
I think most of you are missing this one section of Joe's letter:
I think the above statements are correct that they just want to move the planes to something that might be more profitable. I hope the DOT holds them to the contracts that they signed.
They want to “protect” partner flying… Loose that its 12 year contract airplanes on loan payments. EAS flying needs rebid every 2-3 years, aircraft have zero loan payments… SkyWest has hired a ton of 21-30 year old’s that will leave no mater how much money you throw at them. Coupled with the senior guys leaving.. It’s turned into a bad combo.. In the SkyWest made a decision to protect the AA/DL/UA/AS contracts.. or at-least try to…