youneek28

I don't beleive that anything will happen to your jobs. ASA went through this same thing a few years ago and they actually benefitted from it in a form of a good contract. In Fact they are still hiring. As for the amount of time, again when ASA did this it went pretty fast. Skywest, from what I heard, would love to have our branded operation. They to do a few flight on their own but they have to let delta or united do all of their reservation becasue they dont have the program from it, but we do. I dont beleive we will lose any flying and with the possiblity of Mesa leaving us, we could actually get more flying from United and US airways. The only thing that Skywest would get before we would is the bigger airplanes, who cares. Captains might also take a small 3 dollar pay cut when we renew our contract. I would be willing to give that up to keep our pilots off the street. Conpare the wages at Airlinepilotcentral. The FO pay is a mirror image for the CRJ200 compared to ours. Skywest pilots can't bid for ASA line and vice versa. Change is always hard guys but if this happens it is not going to be that bad or atleast as bad as it would be if Cal took another 51 planes. The 51 less planes means about 500 less pilots....For all you captains out there that whine about sh1t you can't change, just keep doing your job the correct way. i.e. Single engine taxi, logo light.

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