Nantonaku

What are you talking about?

KCaviator

SkyWest is reducing its fleet by 50% over the next 3 years. How is that "plenty of growth"? Sounds like the opposite to me.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kathryncreedy/2016/01/27/regional-airlines-more-communities-threatened-as-partners-shift-flying-to-mainline/#3a837c75228b

snippercr

Your answer is the post you quoted...

disillusioned

Did you even read the whole article or did you just grab that one sentence out? Tell you what, I am going to take one sentence out and sum the whole story up.

She sees the industry consolidating with SkyWest an obvious winner. Ominously, however, the fate of Republic Airways, the only other publicly held regional airline, remains to be seen as reported in this Forbes story.

The 50% is SkyWest Inc that includes ASA and XJet. 50 seaters are going away, and better contracts are being signed for 70 seats. SW is stockpiling pilots and waiting to grab flying from those airlines that can't staff it.

Trust me, I don't agree with the way a lot of things are done here. But BB has shown his incompetence with managing Republic and taking the stock from around $15 per share to around $2 over the last year. If it were me just starting out, I wouldn't ignore the way management at Republic has treated their pilot group for the past 10 years and just focus on what it has been like over the past couple months. But that is just my opinion.

buddies8

so you're for shaft ejt/asa to benefit skw pilots. 50 percent is 50 percent no matter where it comes from. 50 percent reduction from wherever it comes is still 50 percent less profits. skw can stock pile pilots all it wants, all that means is that they are expecting to lose pilots in hoards. skw balance sheet wont support indefinite paying pilots to be just stock piled.

IFLYPLANEZBRO

Skywest airlines and Asa are profitable. Express jet is not. They are reducing that flying while increasing their profitable flying. They are expecting to lose pilots... from express jet which they are perfectly happy with.

cf105

Doesn't matter which of their 3 airlines is profitable or not, overall, it seems that things are not that hunky dory since they have to cut down up to 50% of their fleet and sacrifice/lay off pilots who go along with it, whatever certificate is on the hat, in order to make profit. Doesn't matter if it's SKW, ASA or Xjets, it's all the same group. Killing my sick cow and keeping my 2 healthy ones, doest make me a good farmer, I somehow didn't manage to keep the 3 of them healthy. Just delaying the infection to the other 2. Not a very positive outlook.

cf105

Oh that mantra of APC. Until the major have the financial and physical means to absorb and handle the entire flights taken care by the regionals today... a lot of water can pass under the bridge. 5 years seems pretty optimistic.

unless we go through another major catastrophic financial crisis resulting in drastic reduction in business and leisure travel and the closures of airlines and airports.

But, since it's been predicted for the past 10 years... it will happen one day

flyguy81

RAH already can't handle what's on their plate. Parking 145's against DL's wishes and in a lawsuit over it. Halved the UAL order due to staffing. Parked all the Q400's early.

Everywhere else seems like a shell game with mainline moving chess pieces to whomever can staff it right now, then moving again when staffing is a problem. Between UAL, DL, and WN alone there's going to be around 2600 or so hired THIS YEAR. That's more than the RAH list alone. It's happening.

Flyingthomas

Question:
I left the company after almost exactly a year. I recently got s letter saying I owe them money to pay back the signing bonus they gave me when I started. Is this a legit thing or is it a scare tactic of some sort?