Dont get mad at Express!!

[Tomct]

:angryfireASA was "SET UP" to fail in LAX from the beginning. They won't admit that closing SLC was a HUGE MISTAKE, they just keep making more hoping that everyone will forget about the last one. Our mgmnt SUCKS and JA is a piece of SH!T!! All I can say is that CARMA is a B!TCH!! Good for XJT. This will definately help our contract talks....you know, we make too much money! YGTBSM!!

 

[ERJFO]

If they had asked us prior to the Delta deal, most of us would've said screw that, roll the 10 XRs into branded. No one asked us.

Except for those of us that would like commutable bases...

 

[Speedtape]

This is not a knock on ASA but maybe just maybe Delta did something completely out of charectar and went with a superior product???

If that's the case, why did you get a 2 year contract?

 

[Superpilot92]

If that's the case, why did you get a 2 year contract?

Probably because major carriers dont want to give long term agreements to regional carriers that they dont own anymore. keeps the companies on their toes and allows more whipsawing of companies.

 

[ERJFO]

Probably because major carriers dont want to give long term agreements to regional carriers that they dont own anymore. keeps the companies on their toes and allows more whipsawing of companies.

Didn't Frontier just give Republic like a 10 year deal? and didn't CHQ get it in writing that if CAL adds more RJ's then they have to go to CHQ?

I guess I forgot that CAL and Frontier own RJET.

Face it, it is possible that we put in a bid lower than all of our Kool-Aide drinking, "we are the best RJ pilots in the world", "all ATPs is the best!" brethren want to believe.

 

[Avpilot]

True, it is POSSIBLE that we put in a bid lower than all the others, but I sincerely doubt it and it doesn't fit in with what our top managers have been telling us recently. I've heard it from Jim Ream and Jim Nides that Delta did an independent study of all regionals that analyzed dozens of criteria. All we have been told from that are these 2 things: Although ExpressJet is NOT the cheapest regional, overall we won the study because of operational performance that overcomes those higher costs with higher revenue. That's from our bosses. Maybe they're lying and maybe we are costing Delta less than anybody else, but I sincerely doubt it. I have yet to be lied to by our management in my career at XJT.

 

[wms]

Probably because major carriers dont want to give long term agreements to regional carriers that they dont own anymore. keeps the companies on their toes and allows more whipsawing of companies.

SKYW has 15 year deal with DAL.

 

[starcheck1]

SKYW has 15 year deal with DAL.

Didn't they buy their way into that with the purchase of ASA????

 

[CFI2766]

[ The only way a union or a contract may help this business is to get every airline to be represented by the same union and to have one contract for every airline. Airlines should be represented like the teamsters where we have one union, one contract, and seniority portability to other carriers.[/quote]



Shack!

Now, what's it gonna take to get this?

 

[gkrangers]

You guys gotta get off each others backs about stealing flying.

Management does it, not the pilots. Well, unless they take concessions to get the flying..then they might be bastards......but if not then its out of their control...