Originally Posted by
AirWillie
You keep bringing up the contract. Do you know anything about the Gojets contract? How much we credit what our pay is? Our QOL?
Here is my problem with your bashing.... Your management Skywest or ASA or whichever it is just gave UA 80 million dollars(probably the value of Gojet and a couple of regionals combined) to get more flying. You like to talk about theory and what could have or should be happening in our profession, no matter what happened in 05, how are we and others supposed to get our rates and qol up in our next contract when our management wants us to be paid as little so that next time they can afford to outbid Skywest/ASA when they pay 80 million when they should be earning it with good performance??? Better yet they could just ask us to go non union to compete with skywest hmmm???? As it was said by Leftwing: there is something wrong with working for a regional airline and then bashing another regional airline especially when your reginal just paid to outbid everyone. Skywest RAH etc are supposed to be industry leaders, they're buying up majors left and right and their contracts still say 23 bucks an hour. That is the reality of the regionals and it will continue to happen, that's why it's called the regionals.
Ok but honestly.. Skywest must be doing something right! They had the money to finance United! How come Gojets couldnt enter a business transaction like that? Meanwhile Skywest will make money off interest from the transaction while companies like Gojets just look for scraps on the ground. You talk about bashing.. what was that comment? All of us furloughed pilots at ASA were offered interviews over there, but in my opinion anyone who took a job and gave up their number at ASA made a huge mistake... ASA is a great company, and so is Skywest.. Don't bash them for making good business decisions and having the money to have a competitive advantage. There is more to the airline business than just underbidding... you have to make yourself stand out! I've worked everywhere from revenue management to ACS and have a business and aviation degree.. There is a reason why I am staying as a furloughed pilot at ASA and flying helicopters until then because I really think both Skywest and ASA have a great business plan and look at the big picture.. being competitive by not just bidding the lowest price...