Skywest To become one of the Majors

[dispatchguy]

Major = >1B + airplane over 100 seats.
National = <1B + airplane over 100 seats.
Regional = No airplanes over 100 seats.

Skywest is not a major, nor is eagle.

Gotta correct you, when I dispatched at Eagle in 2001-2002, we were a officially a Major airline (but paid like the cheapest regional around)

 

[COEX-FO]

Majors are fed, they do not feed other mainline partners.

Sort of like a boat and a ship!

A ship can carry a boat but a boat cannot carry a ship.

 

[JetLinkin Park]

Majors? What the hell is a major? You mean the companies who've furloughed 15 years into their seniority lists. The companies who've lost 25 years of their pensions. The companies who've taken a 30% pay cut in the last 2 years. The companies who can't make loan payments to aircraft manufacturers. The companies who aren't sure if they'll be around in November of 2005. Those majors?!?!!!!

 

[RJET]

Indypilot,
I know that the DOT use revenue to determine in which category an airline falls under. Just curious as what source did you get 100 seat?

And the whole "major" thing, who cares we will still get pay the same crappy pay.

 

[blzr]

Skywest misses the whole point of being a Major Airline. Heck, Some fools on here don't think SWA, Airtran, or Jet BlEW are majors.

I guess the definition of a Major is to lose hundreds of millions of dollars/quarter. Furlough your airline back to WWII, blame Labor for all your problems, pay your CEO $1,000,000 / year with sweet incentives and a promise that if they have to fire him/her that they will pay millions in severence pay that could have gone to working employees.

ANd that, children is what being a Major Airline is aLL about.

 

[Indypilot]

The DOT and ATA use revenue and they have 3 categories of regionals, and then national, and major.

I was looking for the source and i believe it was alpa's defenition, I did some checking and couldn't find the alpa site with the info, but the DOT and ATA defenitions are pretty out of date as most "regionals" are now technically nationals (100M-1B). I think they are working on redefining with the 1 airplane above 100 seats to qualify as a national or major.

I'll do some more looking when i have some more time and get back with any info.

 

[AviatorTx]

Major = >1B + airplane over 100 seats.
National = <1B + airplane over 100 seats.
Regional = No airplanes over 100 seats.

Skywest is not a major, nor is eagle.

Nor is XJT. We hit the Billion dollar mark over two years ago. That was of No help what so ever trying to convince the NMB we were a major. They just diddn't buy it.

You can call yourself what ever you want. Until you start flying big jets (100 seats or more), AND selling your own code, you will not be allowed out of the regional class for contract bargaining purposes. But since skywest is too wussie to have ANY union at all, it won't matter.

 

[Flooder305]

I wouldn't be calling any non-union airline a wussy after my own union is putting welfare ads in national newspapers, trying to garner support for their "brave" wage battle.

If you don't have a union you're a wuss!

Glad he's a captain huh?

 

[Vik]

Skywest has become a major??? So when are they gonna apply for Ch.11 protection, kill the pensions, have the top 1/3rd of the seniority list bumped off a la the mafia, and cut everyone elses salaries by 35%?

Ok ok, so major airlines dont have people knocked off ...

Who gives a sh!t if Skywest has $1bn in revenue? Do you think you pilots are gonna see any of it?

 

[ExFokkerFlyer]

Oh sure we'll see that money... everytime we fly over Lake Powell and see the houseboats. The real question is are we ever going to HAVE any of that money... the answer is, um... NO!

That's okay though, i'm drinkin' the Koolaid and livin' the dream!