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Mildred Pierce 05-31-2012 02:59 PM
Originally Posted by Slats (Post 1202045)
You're kidding right? SKW has 1billion in cash on hand and owns all of their airframes. Not to mention most of the feed they provide is for United followed by Delta, Airways and Alaska. Where do you get RAH is better on paper? :rolleyes:
Agreed. People like to bash the regionals and predict their demise, but SKW is the most solid of all of them right now. IMHO they will be one of the last ones standing if there really is a collapse of other regionals. I am curious as to their expansion plans. More Alaska flying? Eagle?

Slats 05-31-2012 03:05 PM
Originally Posted by Mildred Pierce (Post 1202048)
Agreed. People like to bash the regionals and predict their demise, but SKW is the most solid of all of them right now. IMHO they will be one of the last ones standing if there really is a collapse of other regionals. I am curious as to their expansion plans. More Alaska flying? Eagle?
I wouldn't be surprised if its a combination of the both. SKW can easily shift airframes to meet additional demand or simply just BUY not lease additional aircraft.

Three Green 05-31-2012 03:12 PM
take this job
 
Rah, xjt will get spanked by delta soon.

Systemized 05-31-2012 03:20 PM
Originally Posted by Slats (Post 1202045)
You're kidding right? SKW has 1billion in cash on hand and owns all of their airframes. Not to mention most of the feed they provide is for United followed by Delta, Airways and Alaska. Where do you get RAH is better on paper? :rolleyes:
SKYW does not have $1 billion in cash on hand. They have about .583 billion, so I suppose one could round up and get $1 billion, right? $583 million is still a lot of cash on hand, not sure if it matters but SKYW stock has been getting hammered lately. FWIW, Republic has about $400 million in cash.

SkyWest Airlines does not own all their airframes either(not sure if that matters), and ExpressJet owns less than half of their airframes(again I'm not sure if that matters. With respect to the United flying, I think SkyWest/ExpressJet controls a lot of the lease terms, but I don't know about Delta.

However, Republic does own the majority of their E-JET airframes...

Systemized 05-31-2012 03:22 PM
Originally Posted by Three Green (Post 1202055)
Rah, xjt will get spanked by delta soon.
One has to wonder if this will happen.

Systemized 05-31-2012 03:26 PM
Originally Posted by Mildred Pierce (Post 1202048)
Agreed. People like to bash the regionals and predict their demise, but SKW is the most solid of all of them right now. IMHO they will be one of the last ones standing if there really is a collapse of other regionals. I am curious as to their expansion plans. More Alaska flying? Eagle?
SkyWest Airlines is looking solid and has been for quite some time, but ExpressJet and SkyWest are basically, "one in the same" now. ExpressJet is losing money from the high merger costs and SkyWest is picking up the slack. Last quarter they almost broke even, SkyWest posting a profit to make up for the loss of ExpressJet.

love2av8 05-31-2012 03:29 PM
Go to Republic, take the first class date. No one knows where this industry will be in 6 months time. Get in and start getting your time and move on.

Slats 05-31-2012 03:44 PM
Originally Posted by love2av8 (Post 1202068)
Go to Republic, take the first class date. No one knows where this industry will be in 6 months time. Get in and start getting your time and move on.
You could wait for XJT say 6months get in do a year and bail. If you go to RAH you'll be there a minimum of 2yrs remember their training contract and be compensated far less than you would at XJT with soft pay. I don't have a dog in this fight but if it were me, it'd be XJT hands down.

RamenNoodles 05-31-2012 03:46 PM
Originally Posted by Three Green (Post 1202055)
Rah, xjt will get spanked by delta soon.
Probably not as bad as you'd expect. The deal includes early lease returns to BBD and XJT owns most of their CR2's.

newarkblows 05-31-2012 03:49 PM
I vote RAH. Too many unknowns at xjt right now.


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