Captain Tony

I would agree with you if everything he said wasn't true. Put down the gray and red pom poms and crawl out from under Charlie's desk.

wmupilot85

That means nothing to them. They will state that even though they can make money with current labor costs, they cannot win new flying and will lose future flying off current labor costs.

Captain Tony

Exactly the same on the ASA side. The only thing this godforsaken company has going for it is an awesome training department.

Trip7

Jim Parker – Raymond James

Okay. Now what was the profitability in the quarter of ExpressJet?

Mike Kraupp

Again, I’ll let you look at all of the details of that when we file the Q later this week. I’ll just say in general, ExpressJet did have a small operating profit, which means let’s say, a significant portion of the total net income came from the SkyWest Airlines operation.

Jim Parker – Raymond James

So ExpressJet continues to lag apparently substantially continues to lag the profitability of SkyWest. And so what is being done to improve the profitability at ExpressJet?

Bradford Rich

There are a number to things being done Jim. Very specific and continued focus on the cost side of that operation is one part. We’re at a critical time with our labor groups, where we have essentially open contracts in the negotiating process on all of the contract labor agreements.

So we need to get some clarity to those and need to see where our total labor costs will come out. And then as we have said before, we have some just contract rate issues, but need to be – I mean, we’ve got to figure out a way to get some improvement in the rates, because part of this equation is cost, the other part is rate.

Now, in the legacy express side of the deal that operation as groups of airplanes naturally terminate, we would expect to do one of three things either extend aircraft at rates that are back to market rates, or replace their planes as they terminate with a different aircraft type, which we would expect to be at market rates or just eliminate that flying from that fleet, which would reduce the amount of aircraft flying in subpar performing contracts. And at the same time, we need to I mean, just continually work as the best we can in general improvement. In the first few groups, aircraft that have come up for natural termination, I will not allow to go into much specific, I’ll just say in general, we have had some success at ending aircraft at improved rates.

flyingkangaroo

HAHA it all made sense in my head but reading it over I can see how it would be confusing. All I am trying to do is to warn the New hire guys to be cognizant of the fact that the crj side is hiring on a limited bases and with the isl their relative seniority may be pushed down in a significant manner. That said, when we get an ISL I assume the combined lists will be losing pilots much faster then they can hire them and the relative seniority loss will be negligible.

Anyways, the company is making money........... *** I guess our pay cut is going to have to be even larger.... People see this bluff for what it is. The company knows there isn't enough pilots to staff the combined airlines... They will shrink, not grow. That has absolutely nothing to do with us, regardless of the fact that they tell you they want to win new flying. The 50 seat contracts will be traded 2 for 1, maybe 3 for 1 for EMB 175's. Those contracts will likely be profitable because of several reasons. 1)They will relieve multiple 50 seat aircraft from service which mainline wants, 2) there aren't enough regional pilots to fly them, 3) There is a point were the lowest cost regionals will not have the ability to win new flying because the relative supply of aircraft. If skywest inc has all the slots on the assembly line then there really isn't any point on bidding, you wont have the planes.

McNugent

Some people choose to be miserable no matter what. I don't. I'm not miserable, actually nowhere near. When people mischaracterize how bad things really are, I just don't agree with it. Choose to be happy, it's a choice you know. Now flame at me all you want for waving pom poms. I just go to work and do my job with some pride. If you want to mischaracterize that as me doing something wrong or waving my pom poms, then I really feel sorry for you.

MikefromMT

Taking a look at the expressjet executive compensation, it appears we are doing pretty darn well as a company to me. I truly appreciate what Brad has done here, but does anyone else find it pretty questionable if they are crying concessions in the midst of enormous exec raises?

SKYW SkyWest, Inc. Executive Compensation

AtlCSIP

Of course nobody wants to mention the very large pay cut every one of them took in 2011 when each of us got a raise. If you look at the raise from 2010 to 2012, the percentages aren't so out of line. I am not suggesting we take a pay cut, but to be fair, we should realize that they did.

ross9238

What percentage accounts for the raise that we received as opposed to the percentage pay cut that they took? Also, what percentage raise did they just take for themselves?

hemaybedid

I hear ya. I had a three day a few weeks ago that was about 42 hours duty. Not a part time job for me.