Just reminding these complainers where they'd be if the company they are happy to see fall, didn't step in and buy them.
Make no mistake about it, ASA was not worth nearly as much if SKYW had not bought them, here is why. Part of the agreement to buy ASA was that Delta would be bound by a solid contract to use ASA for said amount of feed for said amount of years. ONLY SKYW MGMT was able to negotiate this. Where is Comair? A completely different place. The two carriers were in the same position at that time. Compare them now. If it was not for that negotiated contract that skyw was able to negotiate, ASA would still be around, but far smaller than they are today.
I didn't want this to turn into a SKYW vs ASA thread, but some of these 1 year wonders that think they know everything there is to know about aviation because they spent 250 hours flying an RJ around ATL talk too much sometimes.
For the record, when I was part of the ALPA Organizing Committee at SKYW(and lost all opportunity to go further in my career at this company) I was the one who extended a hand to shake to our fellow ASA pilots. And when I say shake a hand, I mean literally. At the time ASA had opened a SLC base and Skywest pilots were getting defensive about it. Most did not like ASA and felt they were a threat to "our" flying(another discussion another time). While on a trip, in PSP, I see an ASA FO doing a walk around while going back to SLC. I walked over, introduced myself, and told him that there were a lot of guys at Skywest that were happy to see them as part of our company. I told him we hope we can get our two pilot groups to be one, so that we can form a good place to work at the two carriers. For what ever thats worth.
Keep in mind, I once read on a jumpseat somewhere that it takes 43 muscles to frown, and only 17 to smile.