iceman21

Coffee talk...I guess I'll stir the pot a little bit, does Kirby taking over at UA help or hurt us at Air Wisconsin? Discuss!

CaseTractor

Kirby prefers to contract cheaper flying, so yes it helps ZW (or any regional feed) to get more flying, which hurts the industry for us as a whole. So a short term help for ZW perhaps, but a long term threat to the industry as a whole to bring more flying (to include smaller planes) to the mainline. My vote is bad news overall, making the struggle tougher.

RabidW0mbat

I mean, Mesa can get 20 more Ejets, proof the new United probably won’t care too much about quality in their regional feed.

NovemberBravo

Mesa is consistently one of the highest performing UA regionals but Ok

dremaldent

What stats are you looking at? They are consistently in the bottom half.

squib

You see that from the air wisconsin crew room showing awa always at the top. He sees his crew room stats showing them at the top. A flight can go 16 hours late but as long as it made the 24 minute quick turn it’s still “on time.” It’s all a joke. Fake news.

ClearCreek

Regional lifer mentality...

pitchtrim

Rhode Island is neither a road nor an island. This post is like butter.

squib

Regional lifers aren’t even on this forum. Your mentality is this topic doesn’t matter because you assume you will be at mainline in 18 months yet you are still too naive to understand how it may affect your mainline career when mainline flying is being contracted out to regionals. Best of luck to you.

iceman21

Bhahahahahaha, that's funny.

It is an honest question to be asked when the person in charge of providing the flights that put money in your pocket to your employer has been changed.

Considering Kirby has been regarded as and is a self-proclaimed numbers guy it could be good short term for the regionals if Kirby increases contract flying. For the guys looking to get out that could be a bad thing if more routes are moved to regionals and it causes hiring to at UA to slow a bit.

There's also the other side of the coin that say that Kirby is the one truly responsible for getting UA to where they are now since he was hired and running the operational strategy.

To my original post, I simply wanted to stir the pot to get dialogue going on about what we all think Kirby might do and how it might affect ZW short and long term.

I don't have a crystal ball, so I don't know how long I'll be here but you can be damn sure that I care about the short term and long term issues that affect my employer regardless of my exit strategy.