erj145s for skywest
05-07-2008 | 05:24 PM
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exactly so what the he** is everyone talking about in saying SKW could have this training program and "aircraft flying" within 6 months? Even if SKW didn't buy XJT and got their flying, the transition wouldn't even START to occur for another year and a half....so please tell me what are you talking about?
05-07-2008 | 05:55 PM
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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?
05-07-2008 | 06:08 PM
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exactly so what the he** is everyone talking about in saying SKW could have this training program and "aircraft flying" within 6 months? Even if SKW didn't buy XJT and got their flying, the transition wouldn't even START to occur for another year and a half....so please tell me what are you talking about?
05-07-2008 | 06:48 PM
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Wouldn’t SKW just merge the lists and then use the existing training from Express Jet?
For you Mesa / Eagle guys…what is the transition like from the CRJ to the ERJ? Is it a full ground school, or is it and the sim shortened?
I sure do miss my 140 knot DV window, the overhead escape hatch is not the best HAHA…THX
For you Mesa / Eagle guys…what is the transition like from the CRJ to the ERJ? Is it a full ground school, or is it and the sim shortened?
I sure do miss my 140 knot DV window, the overhead escape hatch is not the best HAHA…THX
CRJ/ERJ transition would be a full training program...they are not the same type.
05-07-2008 | 06:51 PM
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exactly so what the he** is everyone talking about in saying SKW could have this training program and "aircraft flying" within 6 months? Even if SKW didn't buy XJT and got their flying, the transition wouldn't even START to occur for another year and a half....so please tell me what are you talking about?
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?
05-07-2008 | 08:28 PM
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yea I know what the union can and cannot fight for...and when you fight you need leverage and expressjet signed that away.
I wasn't even talking about the Q's.
what was alpa's position when express was furloughing while skywest was getting the 120's that express used to fly just a few months before that? whether they could or couldn't legally fight it, what was their position? what was their position when commute air moved into cleveland? their position was oh well lets try and get commute air and skywest to become alpa. sad but that's all they cared about.
I wasn't even talking about the Q's.
what was alpa's position when express was furloughing while skywest was getting the 120's that express used to fly just a few months before that? whether they could or couldn't legally fight it, what was their position? what was their position when commute air moved into cleveland? their position was oh well lets try and get commute air and skywest to become alpa. sad but that's all they cared about.
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.
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.
05-08-2008 | 07:52 AM
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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.
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.
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.
05-08-2008 | 09:03 AM
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