Skywest Questions

KSCessnaDriver said:
The old Mesaba guys will tell you the same thing, when the XJ 900s ventured out to SLC, they got the same treatment by the MAF. Not really surprising to be honest with you.

I could respect OO for being non-union if they hadn't just undercut the entire progress of betting contracts with the turd they just voted in. But now, just shows what's a joke the place really is. You are all welcome on my jumpseat, but don't be surprised if I give you a good natured ribbing about working where you do
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"Bruh. I voted no."

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KSCessnaDriver said:
The old Mesaba guys will tell you the same thing, when the XJ 900s ventured out to SLC, they got the same treatment by the MAF. Not really surprising to be honest with you.

I could respect OO for being non-union if they hadn't just undercut the entire progress of betting contracts with the turd they just voted in. But now, just shows what's a joke the place really is. You are all welcome on my jumpseat, but don't be surprised if I give you a good natured ribbing about working where you do
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Thanks for being kind and using the word "turd". I use much more colorful vocabulary when describing the TA we got.

I hope I'm on your jumpseat in the near future so we can have some good laughs. (No sarcasm at all)
 
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KSCessnaDriver said:
The old Mesaba guys will tell you the same thing, when the XJ 900s ventured out to SLC, they got the same treatment by the MAF. Not really surprising to be honest with you.

I could respect OO for being non-union if they hadn't just undercut the entire progress of betting contracts with the turd they just voted in. But now, just shows what's a joke the place really is. You are all welcome on my jumpseat, but don't be surprised if I give you a good natured ribbing about working where you do
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Yeah it's sickening, man. I really want to leave, but Spirit/Frontier or part 135 fractional is the only escape, and that would be just trading one low paying turd for another. Just have to stick it out at this point and do the best that we can.
 
tcco94 said:
Isn't it possible to take a jumpseat and not talk about work work work work work and roast someone for the company they're at? I dunno just talk and socialize like normal people. Makes no sense to me.
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It is. But......thankfully......

99.9% of it is internet chest thumping and would never be *actually* said to anyone involved. My regional is better than your regional is a pretty pathetic argument. I'd rather seek another ride home than go down that road locked behind a closed door.
 
tcco94 said:
Isn't it possible to take a jumpseat and not talk about work work work work work and roast someone for the company they're at? I dunno just talk and socialize like normal people. Makes no sense to me.
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Yep. Get in, siddown, shut up, and be grateful for the ride.
 
KSCessnaDriver said:
I could respect OO for being non-union if they hadn't just undercut the entire progress of betting contracts with the turd they just voted in. But now, just shows what's a joke the place really is. You are all welcome on my jumpseat, but don't be surprised if I give you a good natured ribbing about working where you do
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Autothrust Blue said:
Make no mistake, I want to murder the competition by drowning them in the bathtub. I assume that this is true of every pilot that works at every other airline as well.

Ain't personal. We surely do not have a monopoly on good business practices; even GeauxJets probably does something that we could learn from.
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Nope, pretty sure most pilots don't want to murder other pilots for decisions made well outside the cockpit.
 
I've spent the last 5 years evenly split between SkyWest and Compass respectively. The whole experience has given me a greater respect of how ridiculous the competitive tribalism can be. It feels like high school at times with that hatin' your rival school's student body BS. Most seem to understand that we are all the same. Almost everybody likes to jab for giggles here and there. Yet there is a minority at both airlines who truly buy into it (I see you lifers and new hires). Those who mentally are thinking next step in their careers usually don't participate.

At SkyWest the brand was elitist "let's hope they will fail and we will win in the end" kinda thing. "Their performance sucks, DLs not happy (false)" , "they can't staff(false), we will get their planes they don't own". "Grr XYZ took that overnight now!", "Whaa they got new flying? Ugh cockroach won't die/I guess mainline wants to whipsaw us with these garbage carriers".
At Compass its more immature in nature with name calling and rejoicing at any opportunity to see SKW: have a delay, MX issue, flub a radio call, be #2 for a JS, be stuck behind us in an alley, etc. There was a guy who loved to make faux PAs as SKW on guard. Why do you hate Skywest so bad? "Once they didn't wave to me as I walked by on the moving walkway!" That Skypest Mainline Mormon Air Forcer!:rolleyes:

Please tell me it stops at mainline...
 
KSCessnaDriver said:
The old Mesaba guys will tell you the same thing, when the XJ 900s ventured out to SLC, they got the same treatment by the MAF. Not really surprising to be honest with you.

I could respect OO for being non-union if they hadn't just undercut the entire progress of betting contracts with the turd they just voted in. But now, just shows what's a joke the place really is. You are all welcome on my jumpseat, but don't be surprised if I give you a good natured ribbing about working where you do
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Just voted in?

That's cute.
 
Cloud Surfer said:
Wow, this thread quickly escalated.... Endeavor vs SkyWest vs Compass.... Give me a break, we're all pawns in this game fighting forces far outside the scope of our control.
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Couldn't the pilots have at least tried something to integrate way back then? Skywest, ASA, and Expressjet. Couldn't someone have filed a single-carrier status petition or anything along those lines to get some kind of forced integration out of it? As it stood, 3 different airlines owned by the same holding company is a recipe for whipsaw and/or whipsawing tactics.



Question for the ASA side. Since ATL, DTW, and LGA are DL bases, has ASA announced an official base closure for all 3? If so, effective when?
 
Cherokee_Cruiser said:
Couldn't the pilots have at least tried something to integrate way back then? Skywest, ASA, and Expressjet. Couldn't someone have filed a single-carrier status petition or anything along those lines to get some kind of forced integration out of it? As it stood, 3 different airlines owned by the same holding company is a recipe for whipsaw and/or whipsawing tactics.



Question for the ASA side. Since ATL, DTW, and LGA are DL bases, has ASA announced an official base closure for all 3? If so, effective when?
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I personally would prefer single carrier, single certificate, single list, single union (yeah, yeah).

That is most definitely not a popular opinion on the property, which is one of the reasons it hasn't happened yet.

trafficinsight said:
Come on, really?

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Resume perkele mode.
 
Is .72 in cruise typical for you guys? Heard a guy deny a vector or declare min fuel with the vector because he was holding everyone up behind him.
 
Autothrust Blue said:
I personally would prefer single carrier, single certificate, single list, single union (yeah, yeah).

That is most definitely not a popular opinion on the property, which is one of the reasons it hasn't happened yet.


Resume perkele mode.
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Haha 3 carriers merged into one? I'm pretty certain there would be at least a few murders over that. You should listen to my buddy from AA bitch a moan about the: 787 and seniority lists, America West etc. That was 2 carriers.

Come to think of it is probably why we don't hang out anymore....
 
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