What now for Skywest
 

So Skywest (inc) has purchased Xjt. Skywest (airlines) has voted no to a pay proposal. And now we are going to fly regional jets with more than 50 seats out of IAH. This has all happened without a union. What does this mean for Skywest (airlines).

basically, you will do the same job for less now.
union is no bed of roses, but at time they are the better of two evils.
you folks should seriously think about this again.

We are. Give it some time. It's in the works. Not everyone is liking all these changes here either.

What's the problem?

I wouldn't hold your breath, Alpo isn't interested. Neither are the majority of skywest pilots.

I bet ALPA is pretty freaking interested; especially after the IAH announcement. It's time to get serious, and start losing the cranky child attitude.

Only people with the cranky child attitude are the union types who use every chance they get to attack skywest.

Maybe when ALPA starts defending the interests of Regional Pilots and quits bowing to the major's pilots, SkyWest pilots may be a bit more inclined to find what little good, if any, ALPA has to offer them.

Until then, ALPA doesn't show that they care about Regional Pilots. It's a "Conflict of Interest" for them. SkyWest Pilots are way better off without ALPA, oh and 2% or 3% ahead on pay.

YHGTBFSM

ALPA has allowed almost 50% of all domestic flying to be given to regional airlines while drastically shrinking the number of active mainline pilots.

Untill domestic flying comes back to mainline then I can only assume that ALPA is in fact representing the the interests of regional pilots at the expense of real careers at the major airlines.

ALPA is all talk...