XJT to fly 60 airplanes for UAL

[10nCLR]

What goes around comes around SkyPest!

Oh, Wait a minute. Let me get this straight. So what you are saying is blah, blah, blah, blue, blah, blah, red, blah, blah, urnge and green, blah, blah, turkwise, blah, blah, blah, blah, blue, green, red, urnge and turkwise, right?

Originally Posted by FSIGRAD.
Try and stay off the drugs.......LSD is not good for you, they have done research about that.

Such as the CIA-financed study at Menlo Park Veterans Hospital called Project MK-ULTRA,(umbrella name with many subprojects) which Kenneth Elton Kesey volunteered for and later inspired him to write, One Flew Over the Cukoo's Nest. Oh, YEAAAH!

 

[Greg]

Erj 50 > Crj 50

erj50=crj50=crap

 

[EMB170Pilot]

Speaking of United. Talked to a couple buddies here at S5 and both said their are rumors floating around that United is dropping some of our 170 planes.

 

[XPOO]

SkyWest runs more United Express flights than the rest of the United Express carriers combined. And, SkyWest is running 'almost' as many flights as mainline United. I guess I can't fault United for wanting to diversify its portfolio of carriers, but you would be smoking something real good to think SkyWest wouldn't get at least a piece of that pie.

 

[imacdog]

SkyWest runs more United Express flights than the rest of the United Express carriers combined. And, SkyWest is running 'almost' as many flights as mainline United.

Kinda makes you wanna cry doesn't it? So much for the dream.....

 

[ToiletDuck]

Speaking of United. Talked to a couple buddies here at S5 and both said their are rumors floating around that United is dropping some of our 170 planes.

Not drinking the koolaid at RAh here but I have a really hard time believing that. Unless they just have no other option since they lost half a billion in the first quarter I doubt it. They've been drooling over those planes and have been wanting more. I'll still admit anything is possible but I'd be shocked.

 

[Flyer1015]

ANY regional airline growth [in today's market] is going to come at a direct expense of another regional.

Meaning, if an airline gains 60 aircraft of flying from UAL, somebody else is going to lose 60 aircraft's worth of flying.

 

[king10pin02]

Speaking of United. Talked to a couple buddies here at S5 and both said their are rumors floating around that United is dropping some of our 170 planes.

thats odd since we are scheduled to add 10 planes on the united side of the S5 operation. these planes are coming from delta as their 175s(76seat) are delivered.

 

[Prolex250]

Cocaine is a hell of a drug...

 

[ATRCA]

What goes around comes around SkyPest!

What a friggin lame post. I spent 8 great years at XJT and met some of the best people I know. While there are plenty of tools you make the whole pilot group look bad with this crap. I'm not so sure you work for XJT at any rate. If you do, I'm sure your number begins with a T. You have no appreciation for the company or its history to come on here and make your peers look bad.

 

[Mookie]

What a friggin lame post. I spent 8 great years at XJT and met some of the best people I know. While there are plenty of tools you make the whole pilot group look bad with this crap. I'm not so sure you work for XJT at any rate. If you do, I'm sure your number begins with a T. You have no appreciation for the company or its history to come on here and make your peers look bad.

classiest post I've seen on FI in a long time. Hopefully a bunch of the SkyWest folks who are running their mouth right now will read this as well...

Mookie

 

[Nevets]

I think that the only way you could get United flying would be to bid so low that they couldn't afford to not have you fly for them. That sounds about right with they way your management works. Your management seems to piss poor decisions just as you seem to reek of arrogance. Skywest is hiring every day in June...doesn't seem that we are slowing down, but stocking up for growth.

Well, seeing that CAL would only give XJT a CPA if they gave them the savings on the magnitude that SKW was offering (the SKW buyout seems to be a no go), then I could see XJT using those same rates they are giving CAL (to come up with the savings on the magnitude that SKW was offering) to bid so low that they couldn't afford to not have XJT fly for them. That takes care of the Most Favored Nation Clause. That sounds about right.

 

[SSDD]

Lose money on every flight, but make it up in volume...Yeah, that's the ticket.

 

[flyboyzz1]

This doesn't help the validity of the post:

United Airlines To Park Up to 70 Aircraft, Behead Ted, and Announce Headquarters' Layoffs

Our informed sources tell us this afternoon (hey, I'm on Pacific time) that we should hear more details Tuesday on United's plans to contract.

On the cutting board (and I know this is going to upset Cranky Flier immeasurably) will be Theodore, better known as yet another tried and then discarded airline within an airline adventure. Yes, you all know the adventure as "Ted."

Secondly, we're told that the airline will announce the grounding of at least 70 aircraft.

Layoffs? Did someone say layoffs? (A nod to Coach Jim Mora there...)

Yes. We're hearing at least 1500 folks are going to be on the short end of pink slips at UAUA headquarters.