Originally Posted by
LivinTheDream28
Not true, the UAL CPA is actually slightly more profitable than the CAL CPA. We were also told by UAL that we were not the lowest bid offered.
Although there may be several reasons Skywest has lower operating costs than XJT, you'll discover the main reason if you review our contract, because we actually have one. XJT is forced to staff more pilots per aircraft than almost anyone else because of our contract. I love being critizied because we actually have the balls to stand up and get a great contract. Hows that union vote going btw?
hahaha again your source? Perhaps if we flew 70+ seaters for the same pay we get now we could have a strong balance sheet like yours. Enjoy it
First of all XJT has been losing money for the past two years and will continue to lose money. It doesn't matter if you're getting "slightly" more money because it still doesn't help your ultra high costs.
2nd. I, like the MAJORITY of skywest are VERY Happy with our current situtation and shows because that last alpa drive was frimly rejected by over 60%. We have 0 pilots on furlough and are crediting almost 90 hours a month, life is good for skywest pilots.
Lastly you can poke fun at us for having 70 seaters but as you've seen in the last two years your company has shrunk because they are still set on only flying an obsolete airplane, and for your information we do get paid more to fly the 70 seaters than the 50 seaters.
We're all RJ pilots and this is an entry level job.