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Looks like SKW doesn't want to park 50 seaters

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Anyone else see the smoke and mirrors?
It isn't about the efficiency or inefficiency of the 50 seaters. It's about delta using that as a way to get rid of the smaller airplanes and get larger ones. It's about Delta outsourcing larger airplanes to regional carriers. And outsourcing jobs. Why do you think they offered Delta pilots a big raise?
 
Bullseye! That's Delta managements loophole. Skywest brands and does point to point west coast flying, sells delta seats, codeshare. The scope will deal with the fee for departure and Skywest becomes the next alaska airlines. They're sitting on close to a billion and all they know how to do over there in St. George is make money so I'm sure it wont be a challenge to negotiate a nice deal for skyw from those dumbass atlanta dipsh1ts.

DING DING DING 3 to 5 years!
 

That article is from 3 April '12. Many things have changed since then as stated by Pinnacle's mgmt, including the expectation that they will be flying few 200's. Since Delta "owns" the leases on those planes, expect them to take the aircraft, return to the EDC/Bombardier for 900's and then use those 900's in vsrious trades with Skywest/Expressjet.
 
When will Delta allocate those -900's anyway?
 
SkyWest can play strong all they want but if they do not do as they are told then they WILL lose at the end of the contract. This is why I left the regional industry because you are at the mercy of your master(mainline) and if you do not play ball then when contracts end you will lose your delta flying and there is nothing you can do about it except learn how to be a commuter or move out of SLC. Mainline wants to get rid of 50 seaters and guess which company has the most of them........ Tread lightly, BTW the pilot shortage thing is just a myth. The majors have done a lot of consolidation to be more efficent. The next round of consolidation is in the regional businesss, therefore, we will not have a pilot shortage. There is much consolidation left to be done. There will never be a shortage of pilots as long as consolidation keeps going down.
 

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