Originally Posted by
FlyASA
I've come to accept the fact that no Skywest pilot will be furloughed as long as there are ASA pilots to furlough. They'll simply transfer the flying we have to themselves to avoid furloughing on their side. I've got friends at Skywest so I'm not ****ed at anyone there and I hope none of them get furloughed but it does suck from our perspective when we are taking the brunt of everything bad. We really are the red headed step child.
On a seperate note I guess they never found flying for those 20 CRJ-200s.
Look, I’m not going to sit here and say we’re being treated differently. I’d say most everyone I fly with understands that there’s somewhat of a double standard here. Keep in mind that I’m one of the good guys at SKW who has always wanted the best for ASA but the reality of it isn’t as I’d hoped.
Regardless, thinking that SKW hasn’t furloughed because of ASA is absurd. Remember UAL covers the overwhelming majority of our flying and our DAL reductions have been somewhat offset by our increases in UAL flying and Pro-rate flying. First we were supposed to retire 15 of our EMB’s by summer’s end, now we’re only retiring 3 with ZERO retirements in 2010. Ever since Eagle and Horizon pulled their light lift out of LAX, PDX and SEA our plates have been full which has included the addition of many new markets. Plus as their lease come on in 2011 (on the one’s we don’t own) we’ve been informed that SKW intends to extend them. Second we are still receiving CR7’s which is all growth, unfortunately at the expense of mainline. Third, we've had enough pilots take VLOA's to where we been able to cut our reserve %age from 36% to 15% system wide.