Originally Posted by
duvie
What I'm trying to say, hopefully a bit less aggressively this time, is that there was more to CAL wanting to give XJTs flying to someone else than JA showing up and offering to do it for less. Furthermore, I don't recall your pay package being 16% higher than SkyWest's. Maybe we're all just urinating in the wind here, but if we play the blame game, nobody except management wins.
CAL wants XJT absorbed/merged/sold off because it removes the threat of an XJT bankruptcy from gumming up CAL's books as they head into the United merger. If XJT goes into bankruptcy (or there is even a possibilty of bankruptcy by remaining independent and losing money), most of XJT's debt becomes CAL's debt which would become United's debt. Taking care of this "XJT debt problem" may even be a requirement by the banks funding the United deal. If everyone can't make nice and make this work, CAL will not be happy at all. United will not be happy at all. JA will be the most not happy at all because he could not deliver what CAL/United expect him to. JA isn't some all powerful business genius like some make him out to be. He knows he has to deliver this deal to stay welcome at the new United. He will bend whichever way he has to just enough to get this done. XJT pilots will bend some too. But we will not be bent over.