ASA/Vietnam/Mekong combined thread
01-31-2010, 10:35 PM
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ASA/Vietnam/Mekong combined thread
Here's the latest dirt... FWIW. Copied without permission from another web site (not FI).
Straight from CT:
- SKYW board votes on the concept in February
- proposed startup in October
- 12-18 mo. commitments to utilize tax breaks
- no set routing yet, but ops out of Hanoi to central and south regions proposed. Saigon will follow
- no set payscale, but no one will get rich over there
- 4 900s to start, and 20 crews + some management. not sure whether ASA or Mekong Air will purchase them, but they won't come from current fleet
- no flight attendant offers (locals only)
- offers to employed ASA (first?), and SkyWest, then furloughs
- no displacements
- transfers would be employees of Mekong Air, not ASA. ASA is only providing the personnel and know-how to jump start their ops
- Mekong Air is owned by a Vietnamese conglomerate which has never operated an airline. This is a start-up.
02-01-2010, 05:23 AM
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Originally Posted by mccube5
hopefully there is something in your contract that will allow you negotiate separate rates for this flying. Vietnam on regional pay.....hahahahaha.....no doubt that would be the day i pick up and leave.
02-01-2010, 05:47 AM
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Originally Posted by PSACFI
So would this help get ASA people recalled if enough active ASA pilots take the job or is the airline still overstaffed?
02-01-2010, 05:50 AM
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Isn't it sad that so many industries (including call centers, auto industry, IT...) build factories abroad to undercut unions and American workers. Yet the airline industry is now capable of going to foreign countries to bring American pilots to undercut foreign pilots in their own country?
