New Partnership for SkyWest?

[wms]

I wonder who SkyWest is having talks with this week?

A buyer for ASA.

 

[~~~^~~~]

SkyWest summarily fired executives from ASA who later ended up working for Virgin. I doubt they harbor any "warm and fuzzy" feelings for Jerry Atkin, or his airline.

As far as SkyWest going toe to toe with Mesa, they are fundamentally different operations.

I think an international link up is likely at some point in the future. The other side of the globe has a market for these airplanes and no one to operate them.

 

[CoATP]

St George and China .... After your first wife you want another about three hours later.

 

[Speedtape]

I can only guess what's coming next. "There are a lot of opportunities out there for us but if you vote in the union it will slow our ability to act on those opportunities." This is a carrot, nothing more.

EXACTLY--Oldest Trick in the Play Book!

 

[Speedtape]

A buyer for ASA.

Comair

 

[siucavflight]

I would love to see OO take over Mesas flying, Mesa is the scum of this industry, the best thing UAL could do would be to drop them. I know that OO has actually been doing some of Mesas ORD flying, as Mesa is not able to staff its self properly.

 

[10nCLR]

SkyWest summarily fired executives from ASA who later ended up working for Virgin. I doubt they harbor any "warm and fuzzy" feelings for Jerry Atkin, or his airline.

Not sure on how the firing, releasing or however you want to call it took place, but maybe they knowingly let them go so they could accept employment at Virgin America and thus installing the regional knowledge, capabilities and connections for SkyWest Inc. Maybe ASA will do the flying for them. Who knows.

Originally Posted by Positive Rate
"talks".......is just that....

Yeah and they mentioned "Talks" last year too and look what we got, YX flying. Virgin America or not, I'm sure there will be another partner in the mix. Along with that, maybe SkyWest in early 2008 will get the green light to add the other 25 a/c to the fleet for a YX expansion. "The day SkyWest stops growing is the day SkyWest dies." I heard that quote before.

 

[Skywest Pylot]

I think I'll wait for a press release to get excited about this one. In the past I've spent wayyyy too much time in the rumor mill. Didn't Ron mention something in Headlines years ago about going over to France to look at airplanes? Everyone got excited and then they never talked about it again. My memory is a little foggy. Anybody remember this?

 

[10nCLR]

Maybe Ron went for some R&R on company time or maybe he went to Paris Airshow. I don't remember him saying anything like that in Headlines. Speaking about Ron, gee I wonder what project he's working on. lol

 

[Speedtape]

I think I'll wait for a press release to get excited about this one. In the past I've spent wayyyy too much time in the rumor mill. Didn't Ron mention something in Headlines years ago about going over to France to look at airplanes? Everyone got excited and then they never talked about it again. My memory is a little foggy. Anybody remember this?

Ron could make those statements because he knows what makes pilots tick! And, we all just keep getting sucked into the game, because We want to Believe!

It's kind of like the known odds of winning the lottery! People aren't buying tickets, they are buying HOPE!

When we get sucked into these intimations, we are buying into HOPE!

 

[pookie]

Ford & Harris?

Gr82,

You just made me throw up my soda. You owe me a soda biatch.

ppooookie

 

[nethan]

No source but a little bird told me that 20 of the Bros are going away and some of the DEN UAL RJ flying is going back to mainline. I can't believe this isn't posted all over the place here. That or my source is crap. Which very much could be the case.

 

[i fly boxes]

Dont count out NWA for skywest, still a lot of 900's to be had there. Plus it fits with the NWA Delta merger.

 

[Gr82Aviate]

Gr82,

You just made me throw up my soda. You owe me a soda biatch.

ppooookie

You got it...checks in the mail !

 

[Crash Pad]

So let me get this right. ASA gets a TA and in the same week flightinfo, which has been dead for months comes out with:

1. SKYW reductions in ATL
2. SKYW in talks with "somebody" about "something"
3. UAL flying being lost
4. MESA going tango uniform and an untold amount of flying up for grabs
5. SKYW introducing a new China operation

I really don't buy into the conspiracy theories but this is a little much.