SkyWest ATL domicile closing

[j41driver]

MCO base rumor is pretty solid. Announcement this spring. It would be more SkyWest branded flying code shared with AirTran like MKE.

Can you elaborate at all? Where is this rumor coming from? Line pilots, mgmt insiders, etc?

Our Mgmt has not shared the SkyWest agreement with us as they are required to do per our CBA so as a pilot group we're pretty much in the dark re: the SkyWest flying.

 

[trip]

Skyw moving into MSP Feb.

 

[jet pipe ovht]

The MCO base has been going around the pilot group for awhile now. Management has made it very clear to our fake union there are absolutely no plans for an MCO base. Its just wishfull thinking I believe. Hey -30 in billings sucks.

 

[Speedtape]

What happened to Midwest Express?

 

[ePilot22]

Can you elaborate at all? Where is this rumor coming from? Line pilots, mgmt insiders, etc?

Our Mgmt has not shared the SkyWest agreement with us as they are required to do per our CBA so as a pilot group we're pretty much in the dark re: the SkyWest flying.

Line pilots, maybe even some sim instructors. We are kept in the dark as well.





eP.

 

[CheeseDick]

They'll be opening a DTW base

 

[USC328]

Midwest Connect contract was bought out by Republic. Republic paide SkyWest $400,000 per aircraft for a total of $4 million. The MKE domicile closed effective January 1, 2010.

Lines in DEN for February jumped up by 21 on the CA side. This includes numerous DL flights out of MSP. Heard a rumor that SkyWest mechanics are being TDY'd to MSP for those DL flights. Rumor also has it that those positions could become permanent for the mechanics. Sounds like Mesaba might be flying more in SLC, but SkyWest is getting the flying in MSP.

 

[homerjdispatch]

SkyWest putting 7 planes in MSP in Feb. Thats why the shift... Nothing to do with MCO.

 

[Dubya]

What happened to Midwest Express?

Welcome to Earth!

 

[Speedtape]

Welcome to Earth!

Go fly your nap!

 

[joesmiley]

Perhaps there wasnt enough 200 flying in SLC and delta didnt want to pay skywest to just park airplanes and opted to fly them in MSP instead. Wait, wait there is too much logic in that.

 

[Plainsman]

Close the ATL base to fly for Airtran in ATL? Isn't that why skywest wasn't doing LA Delta flying because they couldn't fly for Delta and or United out of the same base?

 

[ePilot22]

Close the ATL base to fly for Airtran in ATL? Isn't that why skywest wasn't doing LA Delta flying because they couldn't fly for Delta and or United out of the same base?

It was a no compete clause on the United side. I don't think SkyWest is going to close ATL, pay 40 crew members to leave, then open ATL again. Doesn't really make sense. We have a lot of SkyWest at-risk flying for AirTran in MKE going on, but SkyWest isn't opening up MKE as a base again.





eP.

 

[airchristyle]

Close the ATL base to fly for Airtran in ATL? Isn't that why skywest wasn't doing LA Delta flying because they couldn't fly for Delta and or United out of the same base?

I thought SkyW was going to do LAX-SAN runs for Delta sometime this year?

 

[WalterSobchak]

I thought SkyW was going to do LAX-SAN runs for Delta sometime this year?

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