Originally Posted by
Golden Bear
Winglets, if you have such a hard-on for pointing out the whipsaw potential of a parent corporation owning two pilot groups, why aren't you all over Eagle (AMR), Horizon (Alaska), or Compass (DAL) etc?
Rather than hitching my star to a combined regional pilot list, I'd sure rather have a unified list with a mainline parent. Certainly MUCH more potential for loss of income if a mainline plane is replaced by an RJ.
There is a significantly larger threat to the industry as a whole if mainline is played off regional, dontcha think?
Those are two different things. While mainline/regional whipsaw is bad, it is not as bad as mainline/mainline or regional/regional whipsaw.
Skywest pilots all fly the same size airplane. ASA and Skywest paint alike. That is the worst whipsaw, since management can easily transition the flying. Mainline can't replace a 767 market with a CRJ-200 as easily.
Don't try to hide behind the regional outsourcing problem to distract from the blatant problem at Skywest/ASA. It is no different than if NWA and Delta were to stay on separate lists. Take a page out of those two... merge the lists.
Originally Posted by
Nevets
Other than Winglet, this post will somehow be ignored by everyone else.
It's really sad its ignored too.