No negativity, I just see lots of people shoot their mouths off here how "safe" their airline when no airline is safe and some are even less safe. When you create an image that isn't true you do a disservice to the people who are considering employment.

 

You posted this in June. Do you still stand by the highlighted portion?

 

Don't really really old people drink lots of prune juice? Anyways, im at xjt. Got a email today about 200% pay for all capt trips picked from today til sept. 26th. Hows that for furloughs?

 

yes I do. I wouldn't go to any airline part of skywest inc. We've seen that they are being replaced by newer more efficient airlines. If I were looking I would go to gojet or American eagle.

 

Xjetter,
You should know that doesn't mean much. This place will hire up to the minute before a furlough. I don't think we will furlough anytime soon but we're never completely safe because there will always be the threat of losing more planes. With a fleet of old, unwanted 50 seaters, it is bound to happen.

 

Please go to Gojet, we don't want you at Eagle.

 

Whose and which crewroom did you hear this?

 

When did a 10-15 year old airplane start to be considered "old"? Have you ever been a guest aboard one of Delta's 40 year old DC-9's? If not, go for a spin on one and then we can talk about what an old airplane is...

 

More stable venue? I'm sorry that doesn't exist in this industry. The place to be today isn't necessarily the place to be tomorrow.

 

These things are prohibitively expensive once they reach a certain number of cycles. Comair and Skywest found this out with the CRJ's and now we have quite a few that are getting up there in years. Skywest has already said that they want to re-fleet XJT but they are waiting for United's scope to come through.

Prune Juice: Saying that Skywest isn't as "efficient" of an airline as GoJets is a pretty poor argument. The economies of scale and the deep pockets at Skywest are reason enough to think that their flying is more secure then an airline with 30 airplanes. SKywest/ASA/XJT currently have 650 airframes flying around. I know your management wants you to believe that crew costs are everything but in the big picture they are very small piece of the pie. Gojet got this delta flying either at a loss or at such slim margins that it is going to be hard to get an appreciable return if they can even find the resources to fulfill the contract. Skywest might drop a few airplanes but they have a better shot at being viable down the road.