Originally Posted by
Blueskies21
Probably b/c most of those guys won't be at skywest forever, and most of the majors ARE union of one sort or another. I am curious if they have it in their contract that they don't have to fly struck work, if they actually avoided it before then perhaps they do.... of course I'm not sure how much skywest would be overlapping coverage with comair either...
And that's the other thing as well. Most SKW pilots will be more than happy to take a union job at FDX, SWA, UPS, DAL, UAL, etc.
But they don't have a contract. Their management is just smart enough to not force them into more of an awkward position they are already in.