What do you think will happen to ASA?

[wms]

ASA will be shut down September 1st. All ASA assets will be transferred to Skywest. ASA pilots will be given preferential hiring at Skywest, as openings become available. ASA's ATL operations will be replaced by Skywest, Comair, Freedom, Pinnacle, Republic, Shuttle America, ExpressJet, and Delta E-190s.

The union is starting to look like the cowboy riding the bomb down in the end of Dr Strangelove.

Slim Pickens! Yee Haw!! The problem is in the sthort term you can't replace 1500 pilots when there are pilots, much less than when there aren't. SKYW doesn't want to waste money having 150 CRJs sitting around waiting for pilots to fly them. OTOH, change the preferential hiring to street captains, and you got a deal.

 

[av8er2]

Getting back to the original question, ASA will not exist within a year. It will either be shut down and liquidated or absorbed into Skywest.

Look around at what's going on here. They fire 3/4 of our employees in ATL. They continue to stall the contract. They bring in 9 DCI carriers. Everyone but ASA gets -900s. Everyone has at least one new Delta logo plane but ASA.

Even the chief pilots are telling everyone they had better get their resumes out. ASA has no future.

I agree. There is a huge shift starting to the 700 and 900. ASA is not part of that shift. The 50's ASA has will just be transferred or liquidated. In the end no ASA.

 

[Medeco]

Wrong.

The name ASA will not exist. The company with pilots will.

You guys kill me. DOOM AND GLOOM!!

What did ASA/pilots do that would deserve a liquidation and hit the road jack type senario? Nothing.

We continue to make this company money BIG TIME!

Everyone has fallen prey to the Lowered expectations that the ASA/Delta/Skywest management has socialized/indoctrinated to this company, and they have done a great job.

Things are going to change, but the doom and gloom ASA and pilots out the door is BS.

Medeco

 

[atlcrjdriver]

Well Said...

 

[HarryParatestes]

All Regionals will be merged together and one Giant Regional will be formed. It will be call "Giant United American Delta Jet Express Connection Airways Inc." The first flight will be from ATL to CSG. They will contract out to carriers like UAL, DAL, CAL, AA for longer legs. The contracts will be based on who can do it cheaper. Hopefully those carriers will survive. If not tough luck.

 

[ASARJMan]

Things are going to change, but the doom and gloom ASA and pilots out the door is BS.
Medeco

As JB and JP always say, well said! And , I agree with you.

 

[Medeco]

You guys just like looking at my A$$!


Medeco

 

[ASARJMan]

You guys just like looking at my A$$!
Medeco[/quote

You're not gonna hold that against us are ya?

 

[Dude]

The answer to the question is..............NOTHING.

 

[John Pennekamp]

What did ASA/pilots do that would deserve a liquidation and hit the road jack type senario? Nothing.

Something.

When Jerry Atkin visited our crew lounge, the pilots in attendance showed their asses.

When Jerry Atkin tried to have a frank business discussion with the MEC chairman and vice chairman, he was greeted with chest thumping rhetoric. He stated that he would gladly make a business decision to shut down ASA if our costs rose above Skywest. The union told him that was his perogative, but they wouldn't flinch.

The pilots continue to support an MEC whose verson of reality is about as likely to happen as G.W. Bush getting a doctoral degree. And the pilots continue to thump their chests and scream about how they'll "burn it down" if they don't get their way. Some of us have looked around at what's happening here in the last few months and and smartened up. But it's too little too late.

Jerry has decided that ASA is not worth saving due to the angry pilots and the overly militent union. Add to that our rising costs in the new contract, and that's the death gasp for ASA.

This hot off the presses from a "fly on the wall" in the Skywest GO:

They are doing their best to drag out the contract, by using all of their contacts in Washington, because ASA is going to be eliminated at the end of the summer when the schedules normally pull down. They want to make sure we don't get any scope that will make things difficult. By then Delta will have ramped up enough of the other DCIs to cover most of our flying, especially by using -900s and E170s on formerly -200 routes. Our assets will be transfered to Skywest and remaining ASA employees (pilots and flight attendants), will be given the opportunity to interview and transition to Skywest ahead of time, exactly as the rampers did to Delta (without seniority, and 1/2 longevity).

Look for the announcement to come out soon, within the next month or two.