Originally Posted by
gettinbumped
We will have to agree to disagree then. Skywest long ago announced they would be flying a CRJ 700 from IAH-ASE and there was some grumbling, but no threat of jumpseat denial. This only came when Skywest announced that they would be opening a 20 plane crew base in IAH.
I'm not a CAL guy, so I could be wrong here, but I don't remember this getting to the MEC level until the base was announced.
Actually, as an IAH based XJT pilot who commutes on CAL every week, there were lots of grumblings about that. From my understanding, the CAL MEC did look into that but they felt that it was technically not a violation of their contract.
My point is that Shuttle America is doing the same exact thing as Skywest yet I don't hear nearly as much animosity about that. What's the difference? I'm sure if Skywest was doing this 70 seat IAH flying with no base, you would still have this ruckus over Skywest.