Will you help out Mesa...National Seniority list?
#122
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You're getting around the question, what keeps anyone from opening a non-union shop, and what keeps a major from giving them the flying????
Seriously, there is no contract that binds Continental from taking flying from us giving it to anyone when our cpa comes due, or if they go into bankruptcy. And that's the other thing, I perfectly understand how our contract prevented SKW from coming in a raping the company, but what if XJT would have gone into chapter 11 prior to a the sell dump the protections, exited chapter 11 a year later and executed the sale without limitations, what keeps that from happening? And please, "ALPA is working on it" is not an answer, before anyone can buy into this all the issues have to be addressed and all those protections have to be in place. But you know that in chapter 11 any company can do anything, and you also know that there's no contractual obligation for any Major carrier to keep flying at any carrier, look at what's going on with the DCI carriers.
If ALPA can make it bullet proof then I"m in, 'til then, there's nothing to talk about, I'm not willing to make any sacrifices on a gamble. No thanks. Now answered the questions.
Seriously, there is no contract that binds Continental from taking flying from us giving it to anyone when our cpa comes due, or if they go into bankruptcy. And that's the other thing, I perfectly understand how our contract prevented SKW from coming in a raping the company, but what if XJT would have gone into chapter 11 prior to a the sell dump the protections, exited chapter 11 a year later and executed the sale without limitations, what keeps that from happening? And please, "ALPA is working on it" is not an answer, before anyone can buy into this all the issues have to be addressed and all those protections have to be in place. But you know that in chapter 11 any company can do anything, and you also know that there's no contractual obligation for any Major carrier to keep flying at any carrier, look at what's going on with the DCI carriers.
If ALPA can make it bullet proof then I"m in, 'til then, there's nothing to talk about, I'm not willing to make any sacrifices on a gamble. No thanks. Now answered the questions.
The bottom line is that given your legitimate concerns, I feel the benefits far outweigh the improbable concerns. I hope that answers your question even if its not to your satisfaction.
#123
#124
Several times you've stated how cost efficient AE is. If you didn't believe there was a difference in operating costs of each airline then why would you have made those statements. At some point you realize that.
#125
MESA operates more that 5 200's on the airways side alone, to say nothing of what is remaining at GO and all the 200's they operate for UNITED. Where did you get this 5 AC number?
#126
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Joined APC: Jun 2008
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If you honestly think an outside service provider on a CPA can do it for less, and still turn a profit then you don't understand economics.
#127
There's a reason outsourcing is cheaper. I understand how economics work. There's a reason the mainlines started going with outsourcing.
#128
Originally Posted by ToiletDuck
There's a reason the mainlines started going with outsourcing.
#129
Just because one company owns another doesn't mean it's liable for all it's debts. Google Bank of America and Countrywide to get an idea of that. Take a look at IBM. AE currently has it's own debt and is liable for it.
They outsource because other companies can have different infrastructure as I wrote earlier. The different contractual language, labor relations, training departments, retirements, etc as well as lower risk from employee actions. With the multiple fleet types, old pilot group, operations and infrastructure I wouldn't be surprised if AE is one of the costliest regionals in the industry. Behind them I'd put Comair. Take a look at the operation cost per ASM for XJT, SKYW, RAH, PNCL, or Mesa and you'll see that each is different.
Do you think UPS is concerned about the financial risk of financing/leasing caravans or do you think they outsource that flying to other companies because it's cheaper in the grand scheme of things?
Last edited by ToiletDuck; 01-07-2009 at 08:30 PM.
#130
you think UPS is concerned about the financial risk of financing/leasing caravans or do you think they outsource that flying to other companies because it's cheaper in the grand scheme of things?
PSA is arguably "cheaper" than Republic flying 70 seat RJs, from both a labor and DOC perspective...so why then don't they grow? Because it is ultimately cheaper for LCC to outsource that flying and let somebody else deal with the risk/cost of acquiring airframes, so that they can use their available credit & cash to go over larger (more profitable) airframes.
I agree with you that there are multiple factors at play here, but to ignore the financial health of a company who is doing the outsourcing would be overlooking another one of those causation factors.
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