It still might happen.

 

Are you really that stupid or am I missing something?

 

Yep your missing something.

 

I see what you did there.

 

And we have a winner...

 

You kind of suck at trolling. I hope you're just trolling.

 

Not trolling. The first two post is how I really feel based on my own observations. I do hope the outcome is for the good
But I'm not totally convinced it will be for the best. The second two you listed I'm just having fun. :-)

 

You ExpressJet guys sure seem to be emboldened by the votes at Eagle and Republic. Let me bring you back down to reality a bit. Eagle and Republic are both profitable, ExpressJet is not (cue all the conspiracy theories about fuzzy math and intentionally trying to tank ExpressJet). Have you met United? They are the most greedy airline out there, all about the bottom dollar. They aren't about to renegotiate contracts that benefit ExpressJet and not them. They want the 50 seaters gone, they don't want to pay more for them. It's all a pipe dream for you lifers over at ExpressJet because you have nowhere else to go or you would have got out already...SkyWest isn't going to keep this around for much longer. Hell, as you guys retire planes OO is pulling them out of the desert and putting them into service and making money with them. Got two sitting in TUS right now awaiting incoming inspections, more on the way.

Is ExpressJet just going to completely disappear in the near term? No. But they will be downsized to trim the losses as new aircraft come online with the 175 at SkyWest and Mesa and eventually just be completely shut down. SkyWest gains nothing by continuing to run two separate operations (cue the whipsaw theorists).

 

Awe, that's cute. Did somebody make you a badge and now you're the spokesperson tool of the day for SkyWest? You want to pinpoint blame, look at your own mgmt team. Expressjet IS SkyWest. We are ran from the very same people. So hop off your high horse and come down to reality for a minute. We have our share of problems-- none of which stem from our pilots. I'm sick and tired of watching you pretend to sit high and mighty. Look at yourself. Why don't you take a look at what Chip Child's did before he came to SkyWest? Also, look at your own costs, you're expensive too.

AnchorDown

 

You don't get it. It's not about us; it's about the future of the airline pilot career. If we were so afraid of losing our jobs, we would never have voted NO by an 83% margin!

We were the first, remember!

We know our airline is going away. The mismanagement will see to that. We just were not going to help them line their pockets as they do it. As far as "lifers" go, there has been almost no hiring by the majors for 10 years! Only certain groups got hired. We also know that SKYW can't simply bankrupt us as we are their subsidiary. We are over 4,000 pilots and it will take a while for all those 175's to replace that feed. Let's see how the summer goes, when cancellations mount for lack of crews. Every labor group here is ****ed off, not one of them is doing anything beyond bare minimum, because management isn't either.