Has anyone heard about this? Skywest and AA
12-23-2012 | 12:08 PM
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Kool-Aid aside, I'll bet on SkyWest before any other airline. You guys are just haters. 5 years ago, they could have bought UAL. Instead they loaned them 80 million at 11% interest. When the RJs are gone, SkyWest Airlines will still exist and be profitable. That's the only thing in this industry you can count on.
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12-23-2012 | 02:33 PM
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Skywest places the airplanes with someone who will pay the asking price? You do understand that it will likely be AA who leases the airplanes and subleases them to SKW! AA lives this game it does it at Eagle and I would think it will keep the accounting games moving forward. Also no more Delta 900s since they are going to pinnacle so that only leaves United as the other option and if AA announces larger RJs going elsewhere United will be able to get their way with SKW or there will be no future for SKW likely after the contracts expire. SKW is not immune to the gene. Great company, smart management but they are still subcontractors in a regional whipsaw scheme
12-25-2012 | 10:21 PM
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You never know you might just be a regional lifer yourself no matter how hard you may try to avoid it. If a guy is a regional lifer, who cares. I don`t think any less of those dudes, they usually have families, don`t commute, and can hold basically anything they want when it comes to schedules.
So go to a major and be back on reserve for who knows how long, probably commute, don`t see your family...etc...etc. Oh but you make more money.
So go to a major and be back on reserve for who knows how long, probably commute, don`t see your family...etc...etc. Oh but you make more money.
12-26-2012 | 11:58 AM
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You never know you might just be a regional lifer yourself no matter how hard you may try to avoid it. If a guy is a regional lifer, who cares. I don`t think any less of those dudes, they usually have families, don`t commute, and can hold basically anything they want when it comes to schedules.
So go to a major and be back on reserve for who knows how long, probably commute, don`t see your family...etc...etc. Oh but you make more money.
So go to a major and be back on reserve for who knows how long, probably commute, don`t see your family...etc...etc. Oh but you make more money.
12-26-2012 | 12:30 PM
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From: Qualified to carry liquids through security.
I have to disagree. The past 12 years have been particularly rough. Some just got trapped. First came 9-11, then flowbacks at certain airlines, then the 65 rule mixed with a downturn in the economy.
12-26-2012 | 03:55 PM
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You never know you might just be a regional lifer yourself no matter how hard you may try to avoid it. If a guy is a regional lifer, who cares. I don`t think any less of those dudes, they usually have families, don`t commute, and can hold basically anything they want when it comes to schedules.
So go to a major and be back on reserve for who knows how long, probably commute, don`t see your family...etc...etc. Oh but you make more money.
So go to a major and be back on reserve for who knows how long, probably commute, don`t see your family...etc...etc. Oh but you make more money.
12-26-2012 | 04:42 PM
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From: Downwind, headed straight for the rocks, shanghaied aboard the ship of fools.
Your expectation of upgrade speed at the Legacies is way off. Those of us fortunate enough to catch the front of the coning hiring will be First Officers for a long long time at any of the legacies. But it won't matter to me because I'll value the better schedules, income, and retirement contribution. Tiller, you seem to have disdain for folks who choose to remain at regionals. Why is that?
