My apologies. I made a poor attempt at conveying my original point. It was not that Skywest was the next to go BK. My initial response was to a Skywest pilot whom called the Pinnacle pilots "spineless weenies" because they approved the concessionary TA. To do so, when that individual has not been in the same situation, is out of line. Until that individual has walked in the Pinnacle pilot's shoes, he/she is nothing more then troll.(As you would call them) Same goes for the those that criticize mainline pilots for "selling scope" in BK. There are now some Pinnacle pilots who realize the reality that BK brings. To "burn it down" or "max pay until the last day" isn't such a easy choice when you have a family to consider.

Now, you can say Skywest is going to be just fine. And perhaps they will be. But you can not ensure that they will not have to comply with the current CPA which requires a rate reset in 2015, & requires Skywest to be the 2nd lowest cost DCI operator. Will that result in the need for lower labor costs? Hard to say, but the rate reset is undeniable. And if profit margins are slimming, the lower rates required due to Pinnacle's new contract could certainly place pressure on Skywest pilot's pay.

 

gee whiz, ever thought that if we said no and got shut down, your pilot group including you would bend over and pull their pants down because Delta just shut down the last 2 that didn't play their way? Oh but then you could have our planes and you could make sure your kids are good and fat...

If you can't see that you and Pinnacle are screwed either way the vote went, you need your head examined.

 

Just curious. Your CEO gave himself a 60% pay raise right before filing for bankruptcy right? That's the same CEO now? Is he going to be forced out by Delta (with a golden parachute of course) and has he already given his pay raise back? I'm just wondering because awful management was 100% of the reason they're asking you for pay cuts. Pilots are always sharing in failure but never reaping the rewards of profitability.

 

and how's that's different than us voting no and transfering ours to you exactly?

 

no, that CEO was gone a long time ago......

 

So it's written in the skywest CPA they the must have the 2nd lowest costs of all DCI carries? I would imagine with this new pinnacle concessionary contract and Gojets, it'll be tough unless economy of scale saves them that much money.

 

It's in Skywest's latest 10-K.

 

First off I don't plan on being here more than another year or two, so I couldn't care less how many of "your" (Delta's) airplanes we get. Second, 800 OF YOU ARE LOSING YOUR JOBS! HELLO!!! Would YOU want "your" airplanes places at the DCI carrier with the best contract, when you go begging for a new job? This is exactly why you guys are in this Epic Fail. Missing the forest for the trees.

 

Not SkyWest. ASA (SureJet, Expressjet, etc). We are required by our CPA to be the second lowest cost DCI carrier, or Delta may terminate our CPA. That is a fact.

 

I see....when it benefits you, they are your airplanes and routes, not Deltas......but when I say our, you pull the semantics card.....

And what makes you think you will only be there another year or so? haven't you been there like 12 already??????