Skywest #1 Again!!!!

[MONKEY]

Skywest was #1 for on time performance for the month of March. Second time this year. This is also only the second month for Skywest to be included in the list.

Way to go Skywest.

 

[Vladimir Lenin]

would you like a cookie?

 

[saabtrash]

Yay! Whoopie! Yay!

Eat balz.

 

[AviatorTim]

Gee, and US Airways consistently ranked highest in customer satisfaction but that didn't keep them from going into bankrupcy.

 

[logolight]

ACARS, weather, flow control. Fly on the east coast...

 

[flyn96]

THE PEN IS MIGHTIER THAN THE ACARS, I MEAN SWORD!

 

[sstearns2]

ACARS, Weather, Flow, runway closures, try flying out of SFO...

We only have a few brasilias left without ACARS.

Scott

 

[localizer11]

Call us back when you start flying out of JFK, LGA, EWR, PHL, BWI, DCA, IAD, and BOS.

 

[jjbiv]

ACARS doesn't mean didley squat. Those times can be changed with the rasp of a finger. If anything, I think ACARS gives more delays of 1-2 minutes due to its extreme precision than it saves.

joe

 

[saabtrash]

Try flying out of MSP, oh wait, uh, yeah.

Eat ballz

 

[Q200_FO]

What do you want, a medal? Also, we're right there behind ya in on time performance so watch out, and one more thing, you might want to look one column over and see that skywest had the most mishandled bags for March. We'd be on time all the time too if we didnt give a $hit about people's bags and left them on the ramp!

 

[ArcticFlier]

Do you mean.....

Skywest is ranked 14 out of 17 on the mishandled baggage reports. That sucks! But- some of the blame could be put on Skywest's partners. You know, the fellas who take the bags from the pax.

UAL?

AF

 

[Q200_FO]

Here you go...

ok smart a$$, since the DOT doesn't deem us worthy to add us in their figures for the creation of this report for some odd reason, we track our own numbers, and add them to the report. They fall like this:

Best reliability
(fewest scheduled flights canceled)
1. JetBlue
2. Continental
3. Air Tran
4. Southwest
5. US Airways
6. Delta
7. American
8. America West
9. Northwest
10. SkyWest
11. Horizon (Feb. ranking: 7)
12. ExpressJet
13. ATA
14. American Eagle
15. Alaska (Feb. ranking: 11)
16. United
17. ASA
18. ACA

Best on-time performance
(arrivals within 15 minutes of scheduled time)
1. SkyWest
2. Horizon (Feb. ranking: 2)
3. American
4. Southwest
5. United
6. Delta
7. Continental
8. US Airways
9. American Eagle
10. Alaska (Feb. ranking: 6)
11. Northwest
12. ExpressJet
13. America West
14. JetBlue
15. Air Tran
16. ATA
17. ACA
18. ASA

Fewest mishandled bags
(reports per 1000 passengers)
1. Alaska (Feb. ranking: 1)
2. Horizon (Feb. ranking: 2)
3. Air Tran
4. US Airways
5. Continental
6. Southwest
7. America West
8. JetBlue
9. Northwest
10. Delta
11. United
12. American
13. ATA
14. ExpressJet
15. Skywest
16. ACA
17. American Eagle
18. ASA

Now I'm not going to sit here and blow sunshine up your butt and try and prove to you that these numbers are true cause I know the first thing going through your mind is that the company made it all up to make themselves look good. If you don't believe me, ask our customers. Also ask yourself why skywest is cutting flights in our markets of, PDX-SEA and SEA-GEG. They also cut routes in SFO-RDD, SFO-FAT, LAX-FAT, MFR-DEN, and SFO-ACV. Would you like me to go into another headline?

"Skywest cuts salaried employee pay, seeks deep cost reductions"

And through all of this, we're adding routes to take advantage of future opportunities, and that includes all the belt tightening we're doing too. Yeah, times are tough and we have to cut costs and all of that too but personally, I'm damm glad we don't have to depend on monthly payments from a sinking ship to survive.

There's your other documentation indicating otherwise.

 

[Caveman]

Skywest is #1. Excellent. Now maybe they'll reward the pilots by actually paying them while they are in training.

 

[CesnaCaptn]

You people that make the acars argument just don't get it! Maybe we can pencil whip the departure time to show us out on time, but why would we write in on time? I get paid by the minute. If we are a minute late, I'm going to call in a minute late.

I think those on-time reports are misleading anyway. They are based on arriving to gate within 15 minutes of SCHEDULED arrival time. I remember one month I used LUV for my SLC-OAK commute. They have the flight blocked at 2:00. We arrived early ever week which the F/As were quick to point out. Well at SkyWest we block it at 1:55ish. I know it's only 5 minutes. My point being, is that marketing can make block times whatever they want.

 

[Typhoon1244]

Does anybody know whether or not Skywest's gate and ramp agents are paid significantly better than ASA's? They consistently fare much better than we do on these reports, which supports one or more of these conclusions:

(1) Skywest pays passenger and aircraft service people extremely well,

(2) ASA pilots enjoy being late,

(3) Skywest's numbers are "massaged."

If none of the above are true--and I can assure you #2 is not true--then what do you guys know that I don't? And don't tell me it's because the service people at Skywest have "the right attitude." People in this industry work for money, not attitude. I don't like it, but it's true.

So tell me, what do the rest of us need to do to be #1?

 

[PROFLYER]

TYphoon,

One of ASA's biggest problem is the labor pool in ATL. We've made some great strides in improving our operation there, but it's going to take some time to get rid of the dead weight that's been there for a while. They can't just go in and fire everyone (although sometimes I wish they would). Over time, we are replacing our work force in ATL from some of the most unmotivated people one can find to people that actually come to work motivated.

I think ASA's corporate culture is still in the process of evolving into a customer friendly environment. For so long, we've run such a poor operation, that employees (and pax) just accept that as the norm. While we've seen some great improvements in the last year or so, we've got a long way to go.

I guess one bright side of our downsizing in ATL is the fact that our operational performance should improve as we shift flying to DFW.

 

[mullet]

Unbefuqinlievable. You Skywest haters just reason yourselves right to the top. Why don't you try competing?

I don't think it's Skywest hating you stupid tit it's who's gives a rat's a$$. Blah Blah Blah look at me, look how good we are, fuk off!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[MetroSheriff]

I think this whole thread belongs in the Dorky Pilot Thread.

"If you post your airlines DOT Standings on the Flightinfo Boards, you are most assuredly, a dork."

 

[Typhoon1244]

If you post your airlines DOT Standings on the Flightinfo Boards, you are most assuredly, a dork.

Good point...guess I got suckered in.