Originally Posted by
duvie
From what I've seen and heard between my internship with an involved party and my experience as a SKW pilot I think XJT management put the nail in their own coffin, which unfortunately may take the pilot group with them. XJT is one of the best operated regionals, that is an undeniable fact. The real problem is that XJT management got in a pi$$ing match with CAL's upper echelon and ended up biting the hand that fed them.
That's a fair opinion...although I don't think its anything our management did during negotiation. I think our fate was sealed when Kelner was named Gordon Bethune's successor. All of the internal politicking goes way back to when both Kelner and Ream were at the right hand of Gordon Bethune at CAL. Ream was hand-picked by Gordon to run his own airline, and I'm sure Kelner has had it out for him ever since. We have offered rates lower than the competition to CAL...IMHO our management has negotiated in good faith while the same can't be said for CAL (evidenced by them engineering a buyout by our competition).