SKY WEST 70's going to ASA

[airtime42]

16 700's to go to ASA after the first of the year. Too be used in CVG..

 

[Tarzan]

Woo Hoo! Quick upgrades for all! Let's fly them for the 50 rate!

 

[RJAA]

10 pages?

 

[VeeOne]

This is a bulls&*t post. I'm not interested in flying someone else's aircraft. If this really is true, I hope that our MEC figures out which aircraft are transferred so we can boycott them. If the N# is on the "black list", then the flight doesn't go with ASA.....quite simple.

I'm not interested in taking their flying.

 

[sweptback]

This is a bulls&*t post. I'm not interested in flying someone else's aircraft. If this really is true, I hope that our MEC figures out which aircraft are transferred so we can boycott them. If the N# is on the "black list", then the flight doesn't go with ASA.....quite simple.

I'm not interested in taking their flying.

And how exactly did that work for the Comair flying? Or the 4 700s that SkyWest took from us already? Like it or not, pilots have the legal obligation to fly an airplane put in front of them, unless they'd have to cross a picket line to do it.

I think this is BS, however. SkyWest, Inc. tried the airplane shuffle once already and it cost them $750,000 per airplane. Plus, what would they have to gain by transferring 700s to ASA? We get paid more than SkyWest pilots to fly those airplane, plus we have that pesky union they don't like. Also, what better way to cement a union vote than to piss everybody off by transferring airplanes?

Oh, and ASA doesn't have a contract yet. Why on earth would they transfer airplanes to a labor group in negotiations?

Edit.... you know how I know this is BS? SkyWest doesn't even have 16 700s! They have the 5 former ASA orders, the 4 former ASA birds, plus the 4 from Comair.

 

[VeeOne]

Oh, and ASA doesn't have a contract yet. Why on earth would they transfer airplanes to a labor group in negotiations?

Exactly- that is why I think it is a bs ploy, or rumor. There is no way we are getting these aircraft- and certainly not from a business perspective. It would definately be a scare tactic to make the SkyWest pilot group feel vulnerable to the wrath of management following a pro union vote.

Where did this come from anyway? Is this something SkyWest released or was it in a letter from BL? Or is it something someone pulled out of their sphincter?

 

[Richard Gozinya]

The other two 70's we were suppose to get from Comair will not be delivered till Mar or so, count on it. If we can't handle those, how the hell can we handle SkyPest's aircraft.

Dick Gozinya