ALPA Could drive Skywest stock DOWN.

[BrickTop]

Take a look at two stable and successful regional airlines. Skywest and Republic Air. Both high quality products for their division and both moderately cost effective operators. However looking back on a 10 year line Skywest Airlines stock has continually averaged 2-7 dollars a share higher. Good evidence and reports suggest Unions instill fear in investors and the market price for a company's stock who is under a CBA will trail those under freedom. If the pilot group is unable to convince you unions are or are not desired in the industry most certainly the stock market speaks for itself. Just some thought for those of us at Skywest and other carriers about to vote/not vote.

 

[Jmoney]

Skynation's brother?????

You must be skynation's brother. You two seem to hail from the same toolshed.

You are freaking crazy if you think unionized regionals don't do well. Here are two that have made many millionaires: ASA and Comair. Yeah, back before they were bought by DAL, these two made many investors very wealthy. ASA never has good operational performance, but we have always made a lot of cash. There are plenty of other examples, but I just thought I would throw out two everyone is familiar with. Anyone who invested back in the day in these guys made a huge return! Both have been unionized forever.

Money talks, toolbag, you show me a business that makes 12 to 14 percent profit, and I will show you a wall street dreamboat.

-Just another fat, lazy, ARROGANT pilot's opinion.
(from a pilot who actually knows how to spell "arrogant.")

 

[Stifler's Mom]

A/C Flown: NCC-1701-D
Ratings: Starship Enterprise


Beam me up Scotty!

 

[BoilerUP]

Take a look at two stable and successful regional airlines. Skywest and Republic Air. Both high quality products for their division and both moderately cost effective operators. However looking back on a 10 year line Skywest Airlines stock has continually averaged 2-7 dollars a share higher. Good evidence and reports suggest Unions instill fear in investors and the market price for a company's stock who is under a CBA will trail those under freedom. If the pilot group is unable to convince you unions are or are not desired in the industry most certainly the stock market speaks for itself. Just some thought for those of us at Skywest and other carriers about to vote/not vote.

Worst reason to not vote for a union. EVER.

Man, those greedy Netjets pilots over on the fractional board represented by IBT 1108 just got a new LOA to vote on that would pay a first year Citation FO over $68,000 and provide 100+ "gateways" for basing. In the last 12 months, Berkshire Hathaway's A stock has ranged from $95,700 per share to today's close of $119,290.

I hear Mr. Buffet is days away of sending BRK into Ch. 13 solely because of those greedy pilots....

 

[Stifler's Mom]

Boiler,
Congrats on the Top 10 Ranking this week. :beer:

 

[BoilerUP]

Boiler,
Congrats on the Top 10 Ranking this week. :beer:

Hey thanks!...we'll see if Woodson can keep it going against the Ole Ball Coach tomorrow night. UK has never beat Spurrier, and we'd love nothing more than to put a BEATDOWN on him like he put on us so many times when he was at UF.

 

[John Pennekamp]

Worrying about the stock price is the stupidest reason ever to shoot down a union. Only someone in management or not a pilot would even think like that. Which one are you, Brick Top?

 

[gator_hater]

there are a he!! of a lot more factors that go into stock price than union or not. the easiest to explain is # of outstanding shares. You should try to stir the pot with something that can at least be spun in your favor.

 

[AWACO]

The ALPA OC told me the union would increase stock $5-$10!

 

[Mike man]

Republic has only been a publicly traded company for about 3 years now.

How exactly did you look back and see that SkyWest stock was $2-$7 higher over 10 years?

In fact starting in mid 2006 RJET passed SKYW and has stayed there since. http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=RJET&t=2y&l=on&z=m&q=l&c=skyw

So what exactly was your point again?

 

[Baronman]

I couldn't believe this post when I saw it. What do you care what the stock price is unless you own a lot of stock?

Geez...I better not get a good contract, get paid what I deserve, have some job protections...or else our stock price might go down.

I remember why I cringe every time I see a -900 from you guys...you're on a different planet than the rest of us.

Hey here's an idea...Maybe you could fly a 737 for your current rates...That could help your stock price even more!

 

[Ben Dover]

Apparently St. George is so worried about the union drive they've hired some Dixie college interns to post nonsense on internet chat boards.

 

[GearUpLightsIn]

Anyone else care to point out that Southwest is probably one of if not THE most heavily unionized airlines in the US. I mean it is amazing that Southwest can get anybody to buy a share of their stock with all those terrible unions, right?

 

[PCL_128]

However looking back on a 10 year line Skywest Airlines stock has continually averaged 2-7 dollars a share higher.

Looking at the price difference of shares between two different companies tells you absolutely nothing. The price of a share is simply the market cap divided by the total number of shares. Some companies decide to issue more shares than others, therefore they can have the exact same market cap but completely different prices of shares. The company with the lower share price isn't necessarily less healthy, there are simply more shares in the market that dilute the value of a single share.

 

[John Pennekamp]

Looking at the price difference of shares between two different companies tells you absolutely nothing. The price of a share is simply the market cap divided by the total number of shares. Some companies decide to issue more shares than others, therefore they can have the exact same market cap but completely different prices of shares. The company with the lower share price isn't necessarily less healthy, there are simply more shares in the market that dilute the value of a single share.

Kind of like Berkshire Hathaway with its ridiculously high per share price. They've never split.

 

[DrewBlows]

Wow, I thought I logged onto airlineinvestorsinfo.com for a moment. Looks like Bricktop is lost.

 

[USCtrojan]

This is a perfect thread to let y'all know here, that Jerry A. just sold a bunch of his own Stock. Could he be foreshadowing? Read about it on SKYW ticker. Interesting...hmmm.....

Trojan

 

[gator_hater]

This is a perfect thread to let y'all know here, that Jerry A. just sold a bunch of his own Stock. Could he be foreshadowing? Read about it on SKYW ticker. Interesting...hmmm.....

Trojan

He's been doing this 2-3 times per year to exercise options, liquidate assets, and invest in other stuff. Nothing to look at here just being a responsible investor.

 

[Skywest Pylot]

Bricktop,

Maybe you should give this statistic to the FO I recently flew with who is trying to support his wife and child on first year FO pay. Sure would be nice to have ASA's new 1st year pay. If Jerry and Co. really wanted Skywest to be the employer of choice they would automatically bump our payrates/work rules upto ASA's new TA. I must have missed the announcement on Ishare.

 

[MarineGrunt]

Apparently St. George is so worried about the union drive they've hired some Dixie college interns to post nonsense on internet chat boards.

I think they must actually be TRYING to get a union on property. 10 months ago, they stiff the bro guys on a payraise and insult the rest of the pilot group with 1%, and now come up with a TA that across the board puts ASA pilots above SkyWest in pay plus COLA....

If someone can get me to consider voting in a union, you know they are pi$$ing some people off...