Pretty appalling how many mainline guys over in the United version of this thread don't seem to care that they are violating a jumpseat agreement and make SkyWest out to be the bad guys for trying to get them to honor what they've agreed to.

Equally appalling, if not more so, Skywest’s pilot leadership putting out communications threading institutionalused withholding of cockpit Jumpseats for a subset of pilots.

There ways to address this successfully, and this ain’t it.

Last time United tried a stunt like this (yes, that's correct, this isn't the first time), all efforts were exhausted, proper channels pursued, etc and nothing became of those, so the jumpseats were denied. The problem got fixed. Can you really blame SkyWest's pilot leadership for telling everyone that if it doesn't get fixed, they'll resort to using a method that they know works?

They put out a statement saying don’t use the Jumpseat as a war tool. No-one is using the Jumpseat that way!! All just APC talk...

I don't blame them one bit (lived through the last one).

But they should be sure and exhaust ALL normal efforts through channels before threatening the J Bomb in public... even a hint of that stirs up hate and discontent, which could impact attitudes towards hiring of SKW peeps in some circles. Already the topic du jour over at mainline...

Too late, someone already leaked AA's letter with the J bomb in it, which is why it's already become a ****storm.

Can you post that?

Someone sharing internal memos is what started this whole mess.

nothing internal about a threat to deny JS.

Russ and Aric are gonna bring a world of hurt down on Skywest

With any luck one of them will be gone soon. Stuck with the other for a while though. For the record it wasn't much of a threat. Definitely a poorly thought-out memo that has since been "modified".