EXACTLY!!! OK boys and girls....everybody take a deep breath.:D

Negotiation tactic....geez Jerry, I'm really scared for my job. :rolleyes:

Why would SkyWest already send people to learn about the ERJ if it is just a negotiating tactic? I am pretty sure that they already have begun the process, and I assume that it costs money to get the certification for the 145?

the reason i started this thread is because the news came out that skywest was going to the faa for authorization to operate the erj-145. skywest didn't say why or for whom. i started the thread to see if anyone had any insight on what might be the reasons behind this move. most of the guesses have been that it has something to do with expressjet. i, personally, find that hard to believe because of timing, etc. i think that something else must be in the works by skywest. our management are always looking at many opportunities at once.

SKW would not merge the lists...they would have not gone to all that trouble to fight off alpa and keep ASA seperate if that was an option. Not so much out of concern for the pilot situation, but because the company has portrayed a certain philosophy to their other employees, and would not want to do a 180 on that.

CRJ/ERJ transition would be a full training program...they are not the same type.

That's what we'd all like to know...

They have apparently received FAA authorization to operate the type, and are spooling up a training program....this has gone beyond hypothetical.

XJT? Or something else?

It certainly better not be for XJT planes. If we are bought, wherever ever those airframes go, XJT pilots go with them.

What exactly did XJT sign away?

There are lots of pilots at XJT now that think XJT should be doing TP flying. ALPA doesn't make the business decisions for management. Management decided to go to a single fleet type, not the pilots.

ALPA would've tried to organize CommutAir and Skywest regardless.

Sometimes negotiating tactics cost money. Its could very well be seen as a small investment, to gain leverage, for a possible big return on that investment.

Anything is possible for the right price. I kid, I kid.;)

XJT signed away their leverage.

ALPA may not make business decisions but they have a responsibility for job protection and that is something they are failing at miserably. Come to think of it I would consider scope language as kind of a decision making for management. otherwise I bet management would be looking for someone to fly boeings and airbus' cheaper.


I agree ALPA would try and organize commutair and skywest. I just find it funny that while expressjet is loosing flying to non union carriers (and doing absolutely nothing about it) that they would try and court those pilots.

Boatloads of guys that don't want to be on reserve anymore.