SKYW/AirTran

[Metro752]

yOU GUYs arew FORGETTING THE SKYWEST RUMOR OF A318S WITH ETOPS from last year!?!? OMG, that is the ticket, Skywest regional feed in A318s with ETOPS for Airtrannica.


Oh U know it that the PUBLIX kids are droolin hopin AIRTRANNY gits SUM Skywerst A318s with ETOPSS!

That'LL divirt sum attenshun from their A320 EscaNOTPAIDs

 

[viper548]

Maybe it's CRJ-200's to fly out of MKE to compete with Republic/Midwest/Frontier to some of the smaller cities

 

[Erlanger]

Anyone else heard anything "substantial" on this rumor floating around?

I've been hearing it lately too but who knows.

 

[hou757]

I've been hearing it lately too but who knows.

It's not Skywest but ExpressJet..

 

[10nCLR]

Where Air Wisconsin has failed, SkyWest has won out.

 

[outtahere]

I heard that skywest was finally going to furlough because they were pulling out of atl and ASA was getting all of there flying back. By the way, how does the gay skywest flight attendants, (and pilots), feel about the morman church b!tch slapping gays all the time.

 

[USCtrojan]

Sorry to say it guys, but I believe ASA is on the way out. I've been trying to figure out why we are furloughing and downgrading when we aren't doing that much less flying than last fall/winter. On average last winter we had around 700 flights per day. We are supposed to take a "major" hit to our flying this winter, however I'll be surprised if we don't wind up with around 700 flights per day. So, why the furlough? Well our contract is pretty tight when it comes to Skywest taking our planes, but there is not one mention of them taking our flying. Have you noticed that Skywest hasn't furloughed a single pilot yet? As we start to slide into winter I would be willing to bet my meager salary that you will start to see Skywest 200's and 700's in ATL. The excuse will be that hey, we didn't get cut as much as we thought we were going to, and now we don't have the resources to operate the schedule Delta wants us to, so we are going to let Skywest fill in for us for the time being. Then come next April, those twenty 200's that our "Senior" management is working so hard to place will o bye bye, and then they will want to furlough more. If they are unable to furlough past the no furlough clause, then they will just patiently wait until the hiring boom kicks off, then ASA will wither on the vine until it finally just goes away. Crazy you say? Look at Comair. Since Skywest bought ASA we have done nothing but shrink. We were to get 20 700's from Delta, they went to Skywest instead. Then they took five 700's trying to break our will on the contract. Then there was the 19 900's that were coming to ASA, but they also went to Skywest. That's 44 airplanes to Skywest, not to mention 12 ATR's, and now 20 200's. SEVENTY SIX AIRCRAFT!!!!! That is just three years of work from our leadership at Skywest. If you figure five crews per plane, that's 760 pilots. Skywest has about 1000 pilots more than ASA. The writing is on the wall folks! It had been my intention to hang up my hat here at ASA, I've got six in, and after all of this current industry bullsh!t works itself out I'll be closer to ten, but I don't believe that there will be an ASA left to work for. I've talked to a few others here, and they were all starting to think about this situation the same as I am, so what is the opinion of the Flight Info crowd of ASA pilots? This is after all the ASA board.










What, change of attitude in 3 weeks time?

Trojan

 

[Tarzan]

Ok, I give up. Why the change suddenly?

 

[Speedtape]

Sorry to say it guys, but I believe ASA is on the way out. I've been trying to figure out why we are furloughing and downgrading when we aren't doing that much less flying than last fall/winter. On average last winter we had around 700 flights per day. We are supposed to take a "major" hit to our flying this winter, however I'll be surprised if we don't wind up with around 700 flights per day. So, why the furlough? Well our contract is pretty tight when it comes to Skywest taking our planes, but there is not one mention of them taking our flying. Have you noticed that Skywest hasn't furloughed a single pilot yet? As we start to slide into winter I would be willing to bet my meager salary that you will start to see Skywest 200's and 700's in ATL. The excuse will be that hey, we didn't get cut as much as we thought we were going to, and now we don't have the resources to operate the schedule Delta wants us to, so we are going to let Skywest fill in for us for the time being. Then come next April, those twenty 200's that our "Senior" management is working so hard to place will o bye bye, and then they will want to furlough more. If they are unable to furlough past the no furlough clause, then they will just patiently wait until the hiring boom kicks off, then ASA will wither on the vine until it finally just goes away. Crazy you say? Look at Comair. Since Skywest bought ASA we have done nothing but shrink. We were to get 20 700's from Delta, they went to Skywest instead. Then they took five 700's trying to break our will on the contract. Then there was the 19 900's that were coming to ASA, but they also went to Skywest. That's 44 airplanes to Skywest, not to mention 12 ATR's, and now 20 200's. SEVENTY SIX AIRCRAFT!!!!! That is just three years of work from our leadership at Skywest. If you figure five crews per plane, that's 760 pilots. Skywest has about 1000 pilots more than ASA. The writing is on the wall folks! It had been my intention to hang up my hat here at ASA, I've got six in, and after all of this current industry bullsh!t works itself out I'll be closer to ten, but I don't believe that there will be an ASA left to work for. I've talked to a few others here, and they were all starting to think about this situation the same as I am, so what is the opinion of the Flight Info crowd of ASA pilots? This is after all the ASA board.










What, change of attitude in 3 weeks time?

Trojan

Sorry, this is simply not true! (Commuting must be getting rough, try staying properly hydrated--it keeps the mind clear)

 

[USCtrojan]

Sorry, this is simply not true! (Commuting must be getting rough, try staying properly hydrated--it keeps the mind clear)

Speedtape,

That ridiculous post was not mine, it was outtahere's. He started a thread a few weeks back named "No more ASA..." It appears he's changed his tune in a manner of a month.

Funny, I don't see the doom and gloomers. Where are you people? Suddenly found the wisdom to zip it? Thank you!

Trojan