Originally Posted by rickair7777 (Post 2718996)

Flow was seriously considered with skywest... in conjunction with a SWA express service, operated exclusively by OO. They did say the cultures were compatible.

But that was before the recession, everything got put on hold and never revisited since.

Originally Posted by sMFer (Post 2721379)

No, it wasn't considered. Nor was a SWA Express considered. Please stop. Little thing called Scope.

Sent from my Moto G (4) using Tapatalk

Originally Posted by FollowMe (Post 2721557)

Nah bro, he’s a pro so he’s got a lot more inside industry information than the rest of us. I’m sure he was in a meeting where SWAPA agreed to loosen scope for OO only, because the culture fit was just too good to deny.

Originally Posted by MrFriendly7 (Post 2719690)

Definitely not be living in a hole of depression like you. 🤣

You know if you hate it that much you can quit.

Originally Posted by Tigflt17 (Post 2718805)

More like orientation and not Indoc. That’s later. New freshly remodeled “hotel rooms”?? So you went into every room??? Free breakfast? Yeah food in the trash can is free doesn’t mean it’s good. Great dinners? So a gallon of grease in your taco meat is great? Chicken pasta that you’re lucky if the chicken is cooked. I’d hate to fly with this guy.

Originally Posted by sMFer (Post 2721379)

No, it wasn't considered. Nor was a SWA Express considered. Please stop. Little thing called Scope.

Sent from my Moto G (4) using Tapatalk

Originally Posted by rickair7777 (Post 2722565)

It most certainly was considered, and SWAPA was in the discussion. The selling point was that regional feed could expand the business model, benefiting everyone including pilots due to growth at "mainline". The concept could not have proceeded without SWAPA agreeing to modify their scope, and I have no idea if they would have done that. It's entirely possible that SWAPA leadership could have been sold on the business case, but then had the whole thing shot out from under them by the broader pilot group. It would of course be hard to get an entire pilot group to accept scope roll-back.



At the time, if it had moved forward, I believe it would have resulted in SKW ultimately dropping all other regional feed and becoming the sole SWA-express partner, basically exiting the regional industry and becoming a key partner with SWA (legacy hub-and-spoke regional feed economics would not apply). In that context pilot flow would make sense.

Originally Posted by rickair7777 (Post 2722565)

It most certainly was considered, and SWAPA was in the discussion. The selling point was that regional feed could expand the business model, benefiting everyone including pilots due to growth at "mainline". The concept could not have proceeded without SWAPA agreeing to modify their scope, and I have no idea if they would have done that. It's entirely possible that SWAPA leadership could have been sold on the business case, but then had the whole thing shot out from under them by the broader pilot group. It would of course be hard to get an entire pilot group to accept scope roll-back.

At the time, if it had moved forward, I believe it would have resulted in SKW ultimately dropping all other regional feed and becoming the sole SWA-express partner, basically exiting the regional industry and becoming a key partner with SWA (legacy hub-and-spoke regional feed economics would not apply). In that context pilot flow would make sense.

Originally Posted by TangoIndiaMike1 (Post 2727694)

Skywest has $70 million now from expressjet. Maybe they will buy Republic and have a flow to Skywest.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk