Skywest to buy Midwest

[snozberry]

If Skywest buys Midwest, won't they lose all their DCI flying? I thought, due to scope agreements, that DCI operators weren't allowed to operate any aircraft over 76 seats. Regardless of the carrier its operated under.

 

[homerjdispatch]

Not if they operate it under a different certificate....

 

[Moustache]

Skywest wouldn't know what to do if their partners didn't tell them where to/when to fly. YOU ARE AT THE WILL oF OTHERS, SKYWEST. ALL you do is feed other airlines.

 

[IdRtherBsailing]

Skywest wouldn't know what to do if their partners didn't tell them where to/when to fly. YOU ARE AT THE WILL oF OTHERS, SKYWEST. ALL you do is feed other airlines.

Ditto. Someone said Skywest knows how to run a profitable airline. Their business is feeding other airlines. Have Skywest start their own "independant" airline and you will see them fold. The two MD-80s are purely to pick up the slack and demand when NWA pulled flights out of MKE. Their quick, easy, and available to get into service. Being a regional airline in todays world is extremely cut throat. No one is immune from losing their business.

In the past I heard old airline pilots say "If your not working for TWA, Pan AM or Eastern you have'nt made it yet". Now look at it from a regional standpoint. AWAC, COEX, Comair, all got shafted. Who's the top right now for growth. Skywest, Chaureplicleamerica, Mesa. Everything is cyclical and maybe not in our immediate futures but someday things will change again.

 

[aland504]

Ok lets set this straight. AMW is not being sold, it has been said that MAG is trying to lease our A/C to SkyWest ,GulfStream or GL. Let it be known AMW is alive and healthy and if we could get support from MAG we could be even more succesful; we have an amazing staff and a great number of crew. Yes look for that big announcement in April but it won't be what you are thinking. JO thinks that if he gets rid of AMW then he can have 150 pilots, but think about that, do you really think that AMW pilots would go to the jet just cause he absorbs the 1900 fleet? NO! JO is not going to get what he thinks he owns!

 

[Gr82Aviate]

Ditto. Someone said Skywest knows how to run a profitable airline. Their business is feeding other airlines. Have Skywest start their own "independant" airline and you will see them fold. The two MD-80s are purely to pick up the slack and demand when NWA pulled flights out of MKE. Their quick, easy, and available to get into service. Being a regional airline in todays world is extremely cut throat. No one is immune from losing their business.

In the past I heard old airline pilots say "If your not working for TWA, Pan AM or Eastern you have'nt made it yet". Now look at it from a regional standpoint. AWAC, COEX, Comair, all got shafted. Who's the top right now for growth. Skywest, Chaureplicleamerica, Mesa. Everything is cyclical and maybe not in our immediate futures but someday things will change again.

Ummm, yeah....If you and Moustache did a little research or knew what you were spouting off about; then you'd know that Skywest used to do all its flying, ticketing, and ground handling on its own "independent" routes for many years without any major airline feed!

 

[rtmcfi]

Ummm, yeah....If you and Moustache did a little research or knew what you were spouting off about; then you'd know that Skywest used to do all its flying, ticketing, and ground handling on its own "independent" routes for many years without any major airline feed!

Ummm, yeah.....not disputing that, but how big of an operation was SkyWest at that point? Before doing regional feed, how big was SkyWest?

 

[Gr82Aviate]

Ummm, yeah.....not disputing that, but how big of an operation was SkyWest at that point? Before doing regional feed, how big was SkyWest?

How big of an operation were Southwest, JetBlue, or Air Tran 2 decades ago?

 

[Ben Dover]

Ditto. Someone said Skywest knows how to run a profitable airline. Their business is feeding other airlines. Have Skywest start their own "independant" airline and you will see them fold.

Ya, they don't know how to run and "independant" airline, just like Jerry Atkin doesn't know how to deal with a union. Tell that to the ASA folks who are getting their A$$ handed to them by Jerry. Oh ya, SkyWest already does it's own yield management on some of their flights since Delta was sucking at it so badly.

 

[IdRtherBsailing]

Moustache?