Rumor of a Wholly Owned being sold!!

[Flywspeed]

It is all over other message boards that either PDT, ALG, or PSA is being sold tonight as U files in court.
Does anyone from ALG or PDT have any word on this.

 

[Cmdr Taggart]

The worst part is that Mesa is rumored to be the buyer, god save us.

 

[d328pilot]

Our MEC said today that it was not going to be PSA.

 

[GUNRUNNER22]

Great, from a crap company to a sh*t company!

 

[GUNRUNNER22]

You know what? I don't even care any more!

The W.O.'s have been screwed for so long by mainline it might be nice to have another partner... I'm being sarcastic of course!

 

[JetProp]

More lovely BS..Waders ought to standard issue (to wade through all the BS).

 

[GUNRUNNER22]

Yo, Jetprop...

You know what this is don't you? Bull Sh*t...
Hey, Show me your... Ha,ha,ha.

Guess they left you alone, huh.

 

[Jeepman]

Hey guys, it might not be Mesa. There's been alot of rumors here at SkyWest that there are looking to buy another company. In fact the last round of job fair's for FA's were all on the east coast, which makes no sense, as our most eastern domicile is DEN.

 

[KFFA]

I am with Jeep man on this one. Some thing is going on down at HQ at SkyWest. I also have noticed that the FA fairs have been out East? Why would an East coast girl come out to Utah or Tucson to be a FA at a company they never herd of? And get paid $20,000 a year? Seem like there are enough Regionals for them to work back East with bases they could easily commute if they had. But standing back I don't see why SkyWest would buy those three??? We did vote last year on code sharing and some J4J with USAir I have a feeling HQ still has that as a thought?

 

[Flywspeed]

Great, I would much rather work for Skywest than MESSY (mesa)! I hear Skywest is a good company to work for.

 

[surplus1]

Skywest could easily start another alter ego to fly on the East coast. Like JO has done with Freedom at Mesa and like Chautauqua is about to do.

Don't be surprised when it happens. That will take care of any problems with the pilots "no" vote on "jets for jobs".

 

[pilotdad]

Hey surplus, tell me about this alter ego thing that CHQ is about to do. I have not heard anything about this. Can you give details?

 

[surplus1]

Pilotdad

Here is the information you requested. Emphasis (bold) supplied by me.
___________________________________

Quoting Bryan Bedford, President and CEO of Chautauqua Airlines:

"Company Update for December 20, 2002

"...We have reached a tentative agreement with US Airways on the affirmation of our current contract covering 26 regional jets and the possible addition of up to 9 regional jets with Chautauqua. This agreement is contingent on a large number of “conditions precedent”, not the least of which is they [Airways] successfully emerge from bankruptcy. We hope that Airways will present the amendment to the bankruptcy court for approval early next week. We will not know if the agreement will be approved until January 20th at the earliest. Our Holding Company has also reached a tentative agreement with US Airways to operate up to another 23 regional jets; also assuming numerous conditions are met, including approval by the ALPA association at US Airways. Since Chautauqua cannot comply with the Jets for Jobs requirements, additional furloughed pilots from Airways would be covered under the other regional jet service agreement between the Holding Company and US Airways....

"...Well that’s all for this week. Please take great care of our guests and each other.

"God bless you all,

"Bryan"

 

[sabreliner]

Hmm...

I think the mgmt at SkyPest would be very unlikely to want to get involved with the very disgruntled, die hard ALPA pilots at ALG or PDT. It would go very against their desire to keep their company union free, and only open up the gates for trouble. I also doubt the Dash guys would be very coperative with the new mgmt.