And Kenny, the irony is that the company doing that flying for United is called none other than...
Well they're one of about 5 or 6 UAL Express carriers. The more there are, the more UAL can play them off against eachother and keep the costs down.
This is a pivotal moment for the
VB pilots. JB has come in and done a lot of good in a fairly short space of time. He's also said a lot of the right things, to an employee group that was hardly happy but he's not here to give us the warm and fuzzies. He's here to make money for the share-holders and if he can do that by having contract airlines fly
VB routes for less, he'll do it.