WalterSobchak
Well-Known Member
Absolutely NOT! We currently have the newest 50 seat leases and the longest current contracts with Delta. This is fee for departure flying. Why give any potential long term revenue away? Over the next 5 years almost the entire Skywest Holdings are coming up on more than 300, 50 seaters. Those most likely won't be renewed. We will still have our current contracts if the compnay doesn't give anything away. Nothing in doing that will make us stronger. Delta reimburses 9E for trianing, that fact is getting lost. I don't know about the United side. I hope they can agree to get through the training more efficiently and redo the 11-9 award, but they company negotiated contracts in bad faith if they are coming to us 10 months after implementation for concessions. Having all this training at Flight Safety as opposed to taking advantage of the Mesaba sims that sit empty are rediculous.I'm obliged to listen to the union as well, make the decision for myself. However, everything I hear from the union is that there is hope to avoid bankruptcy.
I have to ask though, wouldn't we be a lot stronger airline if we were able to renegotiate our leases on the 50 seaters or even drop a few of them?
I really don't give a crap what sunshine the union is trying to blow up my ass. I would rather go to bankruptcy again than give back money only to just go into bankruptcy. The management and structure of this company need to change the way they operate. They talked about fixing things and taking the best of all the companies to make it more efficient. They have literally done none of that. Pinnacle made money by screwing thier labor for so long they thought that was how you make money. Now the pilots have a better contract that prohibits a lot of that and they want us to change back so they can continue to waste money. Labor is a fixed cost just like gas, oil, and engines. I'm pretty sure they aren't going to Exxon and asking for 5% off. Exxon's response will be the same as mine, FU pay me. Ask every airline that gave back money and then went in to bankruptcy how the concessionary DP was.