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LAXtoDEN
They could come up with plenty of career advancement opportunities to settle CA attrition down but they can’t give up the idea of connecting the world with 4 separate legacy partners. You can’t set up a flow program with Delta and think United’s going to be happy about that and do business with you in the future. They called it “lowering overall risk” in the earnings transcript but it’s not lowering anything, just killing their entire business. Chip is legitimately running SkyWest into the ground with that business plan. It also sounds like AA is pulling the same move they did with Mesa and not matching the new pilot pay scales. Nice lil $60 million loss for St. George.
What’s worse is Chip basically said their only solution is to beg United/Delta to stop hiring their Captain’s or they won’t be able to meet their contract obligations. The result, OO Captains sniff that out when they see less qualified candidates being picked off at destination airlines, especially United atm, and they just apply everywhere and focus more on leaving SkyWest at any cost.
LOL, did you even listen to the call? That 60 million is deferred revenue that will be recouped at a later time under the reworked contract agreements with the partners.
Say what you want about Chip, but saying he is responsible for running the airline into the ground is silly. The circumstances of the industry are running the regional model into rocky territory, and EVERYONE is in the same situation. Come on man, you have to do better than this.