Nobody is making "a lot of money" at any of those companies you listed. "Oh but the 300% at Mesa!" Yeah, the 300% that is not sustainable and can be taken away at any second.

Track record has nothing to do with it. Alaska will always need 1 additional regional to compete with Horizon for flying otherwise we would gain too much leverage in future contract negotiations. That is Skywest's primary function and role in serving Alaska.

When our management isnt burning us to the ground with their ineptitude and arrogance, our performance is probably best in the industry (whatever that's worth).

Pretty sure SkyWest just had Captain spots go unfilled... about 10 in MSP and 2 in SLC according to the DVR report for what there Target was... with 18 CRJ’s coming and now this West Coast flying. Upgrades will drop this fall.

Doubt it. Without whipsaw the entire camel will want to come into the tent, thinking it's part of the family. Non-WO competition may not provide enough whipsaw benefit to keep a single WO in line.

They already tried that a while back...

Makes sense, x3 is enough for whipsaw but easier to manage.

Doubt it. I think they'd revert to just OO doing their flying first...

QX is one camel which already thinks it should live in the tent, they won't want to encourage that.

Last few years pretty much confirm that. They'll thrive at least until the next major industry or economic catastrophe. Economy of scale counts for a lot, and they have a lot of that. Plus good managers.


I think they'll fly them until they wear out simply because they are relatively cheap (outsourced labor plus most are paid for at this point), scope will not allow them to be replaced with anything bigger and scope is NOT getting relaxed :mad:

I'd guess 1/2 to 1/3. Still need whipsaw.

Fortunately most will get squeezed up, or worst case sideways, as opposed to out.

Still not sure what their plan is. Maybe they're just hoping for a recession and are now alarmed that it's waaaay past A14 on that. It may involve further industry consolidation... eliminating some overlap would help with pilot shortage. A little, loads are pretty high these days.

Your 6 months on the line has made you into some type of oracle!

Consolidation has been in process for some time now of which seems to be a trend of consolidating away from TSH companies.

I called this over two years ago. All regionals are not the same.

Thanks, a new CA as well.

Consolidation within regionals has been going on forever yes, not consolidating carriers under codeshares.

I made roughly 92k my first full year at somewhere other than Mesa.

Hold up. Most of your post was pretty solid, but are you mad that there shouldn’t be scope concessions? Tell me I’m misreading the raging emoji.

Check out the four stripes on you!
Probably goes great with the hat.