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Anything been announced on the results of the United RFP? Keep hearing rumors it's XJT and/or ASA?
 
XJT stock shot up 20% yesterday. SkyW stock was on a tear as well, but it has cooled off. It wouldn't surpise me one bit if both (ASA/XJT) got some flying. Unless of course SkyW Inc. floated UAL some cash....In that case I would expect an Inc. only party.

Trojan
 
FWIU the announcement will be mid oct
 
Contract for 26 Mesa CRJ 200s ends April 2010. ASA gets 20 CRJ 200s released from Delta contract April 2010. Coincidence?

BTW I heard the new ASA wings and hat emblem have been ordered since we're no longer solely Delta Connection!
 
I love bets on who will get to ruin this industry.....do feel like a winner....but you are really the loser....
 
RedDogC130 said:
I love bets on who will get to ruin this industry.....do feel like a winner....but you are really the loser....
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Hey- the regional flying is out there to be flown..........not more scope errosion from mainline. They gave it up, and it will be flown by someone. So why not a company with a good contract and decent pay, as opposed to a standard lowering outfit that continues to undercut the lowest of the low??????????????
 
RedDogC130 said:
I love bets on who will get to ruin this industry.....do feel like a winner....but you are really the loser....
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SWA pilots were the first "major" to work without an A fund pension plan...which undercut the "legacy" carriers...Pot meet kettle.
 
USCtrojan said:
XJT stock shot up 20% yesterday. SkyW stock was on a tear as well, but it has cooled off. It wouldn't surpise me one bit if both (ASA/XJT) got some flying. Unless of course SkyW Inc. floated UAL some cash....In that case I would expect an Inc. only party.

Trojan
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I think there is a better than 50/50 chance that Skywest may help United out...It wouldn't be the first case of the tail starting to wag the dog...
 
RedDogC130 said:
I love bets on who will get to ruin this industry.....do feel like a winner....but you are really the loser....
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And as a mighty 737 pilot for Southwest...............what the fluck do you care what happens at the Regionals, and why do you bother to waste your precious free time to post on it? Are you related to General Wee?
 
RedDogC130 said:
I love bets on who will get to ruin this industry.....do feel like a winner....but you are really the loser....
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ruin of the industry? Coming from a guy whose industry leading payrates are only industry-leading after 40% paycuts from everyone else. Your airline started all those $39 fares....if there weren't any $39 fares, its a fact that a lot of furloughed mainline pilots would still have jobs. SWA is the reason regionals do 50% of domestic flying right now.
 
relief tube said:
ruin of the industry? Coming from a guy whose industry leading payrates are only industry-leading after 40% paycuts from everyone else. Your airline started all those $39 fares....if there weren't any $39 fares, its a fact that a lot of furloughed mainline pilots would still have jobs. SWA is the reason regionals do 50% of domestic flying right now.
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Sorry, but I've gotta disagree with you on this one... Regionals wouldn't be doing all this flying if mainline pilots hadn't caved on scope. The senior folks at mainline were too busy watching out for themselves, selling the rest of us down the regional river. If scope had never been relaxed, the regionals couldn't have grown the way they did. If the legacies still had wanted RJ's, they would have been flown by mainline pilots.
 
JoeMerchant said:
SWA pilots were the first "major" to work without an A fund pension plan...which undercut the "legacy" carriers...Pot meet kettle.
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You mean SWA did something that made them more competitive? How many "major" airlines make money like SWA pilots? Profit sharing isn't a word I hear being tossed around at many legacies. Guaranteed pensions are an old business model. That is why many many companies - airline and non airline alike - have dumped them. It is kind of difficult to predict revenues 20, 30 or 40 years in the future. It has nothing to do with undercutting.
 
ASACRJFlyer..........CORRECT SIR...........WE HAVE A WINNER!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
Competition Sucks...we need to re-regulate this ********************. ******************** that 39 dollar fare..who the ******************** in there right mind would think that is good for the industry. customers and there cheap ********************ing tickets...regulate!!!
 
ASACRJFlyer said:
Sorry, but I've gotta disagree with you on this one... Regionals wouldn't be doing all this flying if mainline pilots hadn't caved on scope. The senior folks at mainline were too busy watching out for themselves, selling the rest of us down the regional river. If scope had never been relaxed, the regionals couldn't have grown the way they did. If the legacies still had wanted RJ's, they would have been flown by mainline pilots.
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Good Post!!!


Amazing how this point gets lost so often.
 

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