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I was going to point out the other day that, as much as he loves to accuse people of being un-American and unpatriotic, he sure seems to love socialism.


More black and white thinking from the easy crowd.

You like In and Out burger...

Do you eat there everyday? Every meal?

During the Bush years we have gone so far towards privatization that when I suggest we back off from privatization, I am called a socialist.....

If I dislike Pepsi, then I must like Coke. Right?

If I dislike Ford, then I must be a GM guy. Right?

If I reject privatizing public domains then I must be a socialist.... right?


wow..... c'mon...... do like Pooh: think think think...
 
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.


SkyWest buying stake in Brazil airline
Thursday September 4, 12:24 pm ET
By Alan Clendenning, AP Business Writer US-based SkyWest buying 20 percent stake in Brazil's regional Trip carrier

SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) -- U.S.-based SkyWest Airlines will buy a 20 percent stake in Brazilian regional carrier Trip, seeking a foothold in the South American nation's rapidly expanding passenger air travel market, the two companies said Thursday.
SkyWest Inc., based in Utah, will pay US$30 million over a two-year period to obtain the stake. Trip describes the deal as the last step in an effort to raise US$150 million that will be pumped into its operations.


"These investments will allow us accelerate the expansion of our fleet and grow," said Renan Chieppe, chairman of Trip's board of directors.
Trip Linhas Aereas SA is dwarfed in Brazil by market leaders Tam Linhas Aereas SA and Gol Linhas Aereas Inteligentes SA.


But Trip has been expanding in recent years as Brazil's economy booms, and the carrier now serves 64 destinations across the Latin America's largest country, many of them small cities ignored larger competitors.
Its fleet consists of turboprop planes, but the company this year announced it would buy five Embraer 175 mid-range jets that seat up to 88 people.


SkyWest Airlines has 442 planes and operates as United Express, Delta Connection and Midwest Connect carriers under contractual agreements with United Airlines, Delta Air Lines and Midwest Airlines.
The stake SkyWest is buying in Trip is the maximum a foreign company can hold in a Brazilian airline.
Jerry Atkin, SkyWest's chief executive, said the companies negotiated for 16 months before reaching a deal.


"We concluded that there's a positive convergence of vision and interests between our two companies and that the deal will provide knowledge and experience to promote a regional aviation model in Brazil that we successfully developed in the American market," Atkin said.

FYI: Skwest, Inc.'s money does not belong to the pilots. The Skywest pilots were paid for their hard work. Skywest, Inc. can buy ant farms, wind farms, potato farms, or other airlines with their money (which they have already done at least 3 times now!)

Now get back to work and earn INC. some more money, because UAL is for sale at a very low price!
 
Rez
ALPA does do SOME good for pilots. ALPA is not what it once was, but it does still do some good.

You would be best to point out the good things that ALPA does instead of these irrational childish rants about what INC does with it's money. Do you realize that you just lowered ALPA in the eyes of ALL the pilots who read this. It does not matter if the pilot works for SkyWest or not, if they are pro-union or anti, today, you have diminished ALPA. The problem is that you are too blind to see it.
 
During the Bush years we have gone so far towards privatization that when I suggest we back off from privatization, I am called a socialist.....

Of course banking deregulation was signed by Clinton....Airline deregulation by Carter.....Let's blame everything on Bush though.....
 
"We concluded that there's a positive convergence of vision and interests between our two companies and that the deal will provide knowledge and experience to promote a regional aviation model in Brazil that we successfully developed in the American market," Atkin said.
"Regional aviation model?" Does he mean his aviation whipsaw model?:laugh:

Sorry, couldn't help myself.
 
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"Regional aviation model?" Does he mean his aviation whipsaw model?:laugh:

Sorry, couldn't help myself.


Nevets, how does the concessionary LOA compare to the concessions that Skywest wanted....just curious....
 
Nevets, how does the concessionary LOA compare to the concessions that Skywest wanted....just curious....

The concessionary LOA is about 6.75% pay cut. What SKW was proposing was a 12% concession up front with an additional 4% later.
 
How many ALPA Carriers shut down in the last year or two? What has ALPA done for those pilots?
It's about time you quit being pissed off because SKW pilots were smart enough to see how fed up other pilots were with ALPO, and didnt want to join in on your reindeer games.
Quit hanging onto something that hasn't been since the 1970's

We all know that many pilots are ignorant of ALPA or unions in general when it comes to applying to regional pilot jobs or they just went to the first regional that hired them regardless of whether a union represented their pilots. I know that there are a few that do make that conscious decisions but even then its more of weighing the pros and cons as they perceive them at the time - I know because I was one of those.


ALPA Secures Cash, Jobs for former ATA Crewmembers


INDIANAPOLIS – The ATA Airlines group of the Air Line Pilots Association has negotiated more than $2 million in cash payments to flight crewmembers of the former carrier, as well as a new jobs program aimed at putting former ATA pilots and flight engineers back to work at ATA’s sister airlines.


The cash payments and preferential hiring program with World Airways and North American Airlines were announced as part of a bankruptcy settlement agreement ratified September 3 by ATA’s former employees, including four of ATA’s unions. The agreement will be incorporated as part of a bankruptcy plan of liquidation and is subject to Bankruptcy Court approval.


“We believe this agreement is the best choice for many ATA families who are still struggling to pay bills and rebuild lives shattered by overwhelming corporate greed,” said former ATA First Officer Don Wurster, who serves as ALPA’s custodian for the ATA cockpit crewmember group. “Money alone will never ease the pain caused when our careers crumbled at the airline that we built; however, some much needed cash and new jobs may help some of us move on and continue in the aviation profession.”


ATA declared bankruptcy for the second time in four years in the late-night hours of April 2, 2008. It shut down all operations a few hours later, throwing more than 2,200 employees out of work and stranding unsuspecting vacationers and military personnel around the world.
The settlement reached with the former ATA and its surviving holding company, Global Aero Logistics of Peachtree City, GA, covers employees represented by the ALPA, the Association of Flight Attendants, the Transportation Workers Union and the International Association of Machinists. It also includes nonunion employees who had filed a class-action lawsuit against the airline. ATA employees sued the former airline for violating a federal law known as the WARN Act, which requires 60-day notice before any company shutdown or mass employee layoff.


Under ALPA’s portion of the agreement, approximately 580 crewmembers will share a $2 million payment from ATA in exchange for dropping their WARN lawsuit and other legal actions against ATA and Global. They also stand to receive more cash in the future based on how much money ATA can recover from its former vendors, in a process known as “preference recovery.”


The combined employee groups also won a five-percent stake in any future damage awards ATA may recover from its $180 million lawsuit against Federal Express Corp. ATA sued FedEx earlier this year, saying the cargo giant’s decision to cancel ATA’s lucrative contract as a member of FedEx’s airline team for the U.S. military was directly responsible for the airline’s collapse.
 
This is all part of a scheme, devised by Jerry and the Brazilian government, to shred all the Canadair jets to drive up the prices of Embraer products.

You watch!
 

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