Originally Posted by
Bustin
I see what you're saying winglets. You are referring to Skywest Inc. Skywest Inc. is a company that owns two separate airlines. It makes no sense for them to merge the two when one is union, the other is not. ALPA at ASA isn't going anywhere and Skywest votes them down time and time again. It works fine for them to keep them operating separately. They're both profitable and there is no drama between the pilot groups. Skywest Airlines has no obligation to "call back" furloughs from a sister company who's seniority list is entirely separate. They do offer preferential hiring.
As for Skywest mistreating ASA, hasn't happened yet, to my knowledge. ASA has been improved on almost every level since the acquisition from Delta. Not to mention the CEO came straight from Salt Lake and he is generally liked within the system (unheard of!).
Believe me, you wouldn't be hearing any complaints from me if they merged the two companies. I would be bidding out of ATL within the hour! They just have no reason to under the present circumstances and I don't blame them.
That said, doesn't Expressjet have a Charter division? Those pilots are all under one list. What about Republic? Yes, they bought two new additions, but they are merging those in.
ASA is Skywest and if the two lists vote on ALPA together I'm pretty sure 51% would say yes.
As far as I see it Skywest furloughed its own pilots out of seniority that fly planes with ASA painted on them and offers them to start over on airplanes with Skywest painted on them. All Skywest pilots.
Look at the Pinnacle pilots that fly airplanes with Pinnacle painted on the side. They are getting screwed by management given flying to Pinnacle pilots with Colgan painted on the side and growth out of seniority order. Not to mention the upgrade bidding. Skywest could do the same thing to their pilots that fly with Skywest paint.