Originally Posted by
Utah
You have to take into consideration that where we are based at SkyWest plays only somewhat on where we actually fly. A large number of the four day trips leave the domicile on the first leg and don't come back till the last. You have ORD crews doing California flying, SLC crews spending the entire trip in MSP and so on. Even when we were doing hub stuff for Delta out of DFW years ago we never opened a base, lots of aircraft and crews just going down there four days at a time. Same thing with ATL, even though we had a domicile there for a while, most of the flying was being done by SLC crews. SFO and LAX have only been domiciles for two years, yet we've been flying RJs in and out for over 10. The same thing could happen with any shift of the 700s for United/CAL.
When we had LAX and ONT domiciles they went extremely junior.
1. You'll be fenced into your domiciles/equipment for several years anyways.
2. When the fences come down no one will be forced out of their base. You would be able to only bid on vacancies to switch bases.
3. The bulk of the ASA/XJT group, and nearly all of the senior CA's live east of the Rockies.
4. Nothing is preventing your guys from being displaced anyways if SKW Inc decides to allocate some flying to ASA on the west coast. "New United" could equal "New Fleet Plan." How many bases has SKW closed and opened in the last 2 years?