Well, for one thing I think a fair cost of living adjustment would be in order. Our current rates have been stagnant for a long time now (5 years I believe). Our current proposal locks in 1% for the next 3 years, so 1% over an 8 year period (and no retro pay) has really decreased one's buying power. Also, management a while back asked the pilot group to "deal them an ace" and fly the 70 seat jets for 50 seat pay to win a contract, and we wouldn't regret it. Well, nothing has transpired since then that we "wouldn't regret". In fact, suprise suprise, the 70 seat jets were already there, so in reality the contract was probably already won before they asked for this.

Skywest is not a bad place to work. I'm not unhappy here. However we have given alot and it would be nice to see some good faith from management, especially seeing how profitable the company is. These constant "pen stroke" policy changes and interpretations, bad pay proposals, etc are leading us down a bad road. I just fear how far it can go before it stops. Maybe we do need ALPA.