XJT Pilots-Contract
#21
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Joined APC: Apr 2008
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The problem with Slaphappy is that he has a lot of growing up to do. He's probably 20-22 yrs old and has probably been in this industry less than six months and has been drinking some major kool-aid. The problem is that he thinks his airline is infallible and God's gift to aviation. Keep this in mind....we are all regional pilots working for regional airlines. Today's gem is tomorrows' turd. Karma is a b!tch and hard times fall on everyone in this industry sooner or later.
#22
The problem with Slaphappy is that he has a lot of growing up to do. He's probably 20-22 yrs old and has probably been in this industry less than six months and has been drinking some major kool-aid. The problem is that he thinks his airline is infallible and God's gift to aviation. Keep this in mind....we are all regional pilots working for regional airlines. Better yet we are all PILOTS Today's gem is tomorrows' turd. Karma is a b!tch and hard times fall on everyone in this industry sooner or later.
#24
i don't really understand this sort of idea. i know xjet has a lot of pilots, so i won't imagine that most or all feel the way you do, just like i hope everyone out there knows slaphappy is not speaking for even a small minority of skywest pilots. but i don't get this. if you like skywest's bases so much, why didn't you work for skywest? if you're the company being bought, it seems odd to say, "yeah, we'll let you buy us if you let us fly at your bases". that's not really how the business world works. i do hope that there is a good outcome to everything for xjet's pilots, because i always hope everyone does well on a personal level. but when you're at the company that is a takeover target, there are a lot of bad things that can happen. if (and it's a big if) xjet is going to get bought anytime soon, xjet pilots should hope that it is skywest that does the buying. there are plenty of buyout shops out there (not in the airline business) that would love to take xjet private, gut it, and either get their money out of it piece by piece or put it back public after transforming it down to a mere shadow of what it is now. i'd be looking at that sort of eventuality if i were you. again, just from a business standpoint, not the "my airline is better than yours" playground mentality that goes on a lot here.
Last edited by dontsurf; 05-09-2008 at 08:16 AM.
#26
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Joined APC: Sep 2006
Position: A320
Posts: 133
Just curious, XJT contract is with Expressjet holdings, what happens if SKW buys XJT and Expressjet holdings is no more? I know about the MEC metting today and trying to neg. something.....but didn't the same thing happen with AA and TWA with only 10% of TWA merged.
#27
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Just curious, XJT contract is with Expressjet holdings, what happens if SKW buys XJT and Expressjet holdings is no more? I know about the MEC metting today and trying to neg. something.....but didn't the same thing happen with AA and TWA with only 10% of TWA merged.
#28
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As for furloughs, imagine if we stayed a separate pilot group and we get all the CAL flying and then Delta or United decides to cut you guys a lot. Guess what? You guys get furloughed, while a junior guy at ASA and XJT upgrades and makes $60K a year. If we merged the lists, furloughs would happen across our whole company, so no one would get screwed. I can't believe you guys wouldn't want this protection.
#29
Thats a stupid idea and no skywest pilot will be for that, I would rather just see this buyout not happen.
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