No one seems to want to address the obvious, if the sale does not materialize on the hypothetical account of a big NO vote from the XJT pilots, the worse that will happen is that CAL will follow through with their threat and pull 51 frames starting 1 and 1/2 year from now, the rest gradually from 2010-2012. CAL is not the only Airline out there, and we still have 70 options (but that's just speculating).

The issue here, is a lot of you are operating under this illusion that CAL can just pull the plug anytime (contractually they can) and just park the airplanes as a more suitable replacement comes in to do it for cheaper. Even if you guys got the frames overnight, where would you get at least 2000 pilots to operate a minimum of 206 frames? You'd be lucky to get 1000 from XJT; most of us would rather go down with ship to stick it to CAL if it ever came to that, is the least we could do for good ol jeff

As I've stated before, it will never come to that, the management at skywest is looking for long term, and they'll negotiate, they don't have a choice.