nice
front9 said:
I sure wouldnt, I'd love to see your sorry butt firmly planted in the right seat of our EMB on eternal reserve. Hahahahahaha, What do you think about that?
P38,
Dont
be so
bitter
man,
cant
wait
till you're
bringing my gear up,
you must be a joy to
fly with. If the rumor
was ASA buying Skywest
how would you be posting
here? I think you would be looking
around your house for the good old
stapler wouldnt you. So stop being a
hypocrite and start filling out an
application. I hear we're
pushing 40 people
every 3 weeks.
PM me, I'll even give you an internal recommendation.
First of all, if ASA was buying Skywest, I'd be pushing for a fair and equitable seniority list integration. That goes for Comair purchasing Skywest too. I'm not sure why but you seem to think if A purchases B then all B's pilots are stapled below A's. That is not the case and never has been. The ASA pilots have a contract that must be honored. A straight up staple is not an option despite who buys who.
I'm not with ASA, I just want to see them get a fair deal. As for the prospect of parceling ASA out so that technically you are just buying assets of a dwindiling operation, I doubt that will happen. If Delta dumps ASA it will do so because Delta is in an emergency cash crunch and needs large volumes of cash ASAP. The economics of that situation will preclude a slow, drawn out transfer of asset scenario just to satisfy your windfall fantasies.
Perhaps the funniest thing of all is that you really think you are going to be rewarded to such an extreme extent for being management's good little boys and girls. That they love and care for you so much they will go to the ends of the earth to get you a seniority windfall, and structure any deal to guarantee it is at the same time laughable and tragic.
If and when the shoe is on the other foot, you will be the first to squeal like a stuck pig. Suddenly you will be arguing how Allegheny/Mohawk should protect you, and how the arbitrator owes you some seniority for your years of service. But neither will be there for you unless other things change, so your future salary, seniority and quality/quantity of precious resume time will be in the hands of others. Perhaps others you just recently tried to screw over. Others who have a contract, while you do not.
Articflyer,
I realize only a small sample of Skywest pilots post here, or anywhere for that matter. My problem is with the near unanimous sentiment of those who do post (and claim to be Skywest pilots) either for a staple or just saying its out of their hands. How hard is it to see that stapling 2000 ASA pilots in a straight up merger is outrageous? How hard is it to tell your management, when you meet with them so they can value your input (that does happen, doesn't it?) that a staple is 100% unacceptable and you expect your fellow aviatior to be treated fairly?
As for your avatar, yes it did piss me off. Maybe that's because "people like me" don't like to see 2000 fellow pilots screwed over and get placed below a new hire with 12 and 2. I realize you and others are riding high because you think your company is about to be the buyer of another company, and that that gives your pilots some kind of advantage. I think you're very wrong about that, despite what your managers tell you in ground school (who, by the way, are paid good money to placate you into not voting union, so they are required by their job description to tell you that) but if the worm turns someday and you are on the recieving end of another pilot group trying to rape your seniority list for personal profit, I will be against that, too.
And while I'm not blaming all Skywest pilots, it would be nice to see a few publicly denounce what all too many others here have either actively or passively embraced, or feigned indifference about.
