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JoeMerchant said:
Of course banking deregulation was signed by Clinton....Airline deregulation by Carter.....Let's blame everything on Bush though.....
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OK!!!!
 
Rez O. Lewshun said:
Wow..... once that money goes overseas... it ain't ever coming back....
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I just wanted to point out the liberal idiocy of this statement. So, you're saying that if an American Company buys a Brazilian airline, we lose money here? If it is a good investment, and the company makes money, then there will be plenty of money brought back to the USA as the value of Skywest increases. That value will be seen in increased value in the Skywest stock. All of us evil capitalists that own stock in Skywest (or our pensions that do) will see real value added.

Just couldn't let this opportunity to point out ignorance in another Rez liberal post.
 
I was going to chime in about the stupidity of this thread, but it looks like everyone has the bases covered. Keep it up, Rez. You are making SkyWest, Inc. look good.

-Goose
 
Rez O. Lewshun said:
Wow..... once that money goes overseas... it ain't ever coming back.... Skywest a transnational airline? What a pandora's box. Brazilian pilots slowly taking Skywest pilots' rightful flying....

or

Skywest loses big in Brazil and cuts US pilot jobs to save its core business.....

Looks like rejecting ALPA was a great move....... for Jerry.
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What did pilots at American, TWA, and United do to stop corporations/holding companines from being formed and money being diverted to other interests under the Corp. umbrellas?
 
JoeMerchant said:
Of course banking deregulation was signed by Clinton....Airline deregulation by Carter.....Let's blame everything on Bush though.....
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In the first 5 minutes of his RNC speech in 2004, Bush stated that pensions were an albatross and anchor around the necks of corporations, and under his next term that pensions would be eliminated in favor of new retirement vehicles like 401-K's.

No time was wasted in living up to that promise! His cronies took care of the dirty work through the old bankruptcy laws.
 
Speedtape said:
In the first 5 minutes of his RNC speech in 2004, Bush stated that pensions were an albatross and anchor around the necks of corporations, and under his next term that pensions would be eliminated in favor of new retirement vehicles like 401-K's.

No time was wasted in living up to that promise! His cronies took care of the dirty work through the old bankruptcy laws.
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And what would McCain do....... if you are a pilot and don't know....
 
Just about the time I start to climb off the fence to the lush green ALPA pasture (cough, cough...ahem)...i take a look at an ALPA salary list someone emailed me 4 years ago.

Executive Assistant (read: SECRATARY) $43,779 yr

Correct me if i'm wrong (rare) but isn't first year pay at _________ (insert appropriate ALPA carrier) less than that?

W
 
Rez O. Lewshun said:
I am not saying it is probable... just what I HOPE...
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Corrected it for ya, Rez. Just because you got turned down at Skywest doesn't mean you can't have a fulfilling career somewhere else...
 
I'm really confused Rez. How does investing 5 mil take away anybody's job. Last I checked SkyWest doesn't have a crew domicile in Brazil. If SkyWest did would you be senior enough to bid it? Would you bid it?

Lastly, 5 mil would barely cover a few old Bro's plus spares so I don't think there's any danger of SkyWest shipping their assets to Brazil.

Pure troll bait. Nice try though.
 
Morning Wood said:
Then why didn't/couldn't they stop these corporations from being formed? Or were these somehow good business decisions?
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Regardless what they did, my point was that it was probably more than what Skywest pilots could've done to prevent it IF they wanted to prevent it. Being good business decisions doesn't mean its good for pilots. The attempted buyout of XJT by SKW is a perfect example of that. And guess what? The XJT pilots stopped that one!
 
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Nevets said:
Regardless what they did, my point was that it was probably more than what Skywest pilots could've done to prevent it IF they wanted to prevent it. Being good business decisions doesn't mean its good for pilots. The attempted buyout of XJT by SKW is a perfect example of that. And guess what? The XJT pilots stopped that one!
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Skywest buying xjt would have been the best thing for you guys. Ask ASA. Nothing but good things have happened since SKW bought them.
 
Andy Neill said:
It wasn't the BoD that did that?
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They turned down the first offer. There were negotiations afterward between the BOD and SKW. Then the BOD told SKW they had reached a point in their negotiations in which they needed to negotiate with the XJT MEC if they wanted to maintain their contingency of relief of scope and removal of the Holding Letter. In reality, SKW could've pulled the trigger without letting the XJT pilots have a say if they would have taken them with their contract as is.
 

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