Originally Posted by
PruneJuice
I would think long and hard about going to skywest now. I heard that all the classes have been canceled at skywest this week because of a slowdown this fall.
Today expressjet announced 200 more new hires, so I would look at them over skywest. Plus I think the fact that skywest is non-union is also bad, in the future when the majors hire I would expect those from union airlines to get on before those from non-union.
That is incorrect. They "postponed" indefinitely an upgrade CRJ class in July. They still have several new hire classes scheduled through the summer, and I think a Brasilia upgrade class is scheduled for July... At least according to Crew Support that I talked with today.
Assuming you're a Skywest employee, I'd recommending checking out the President's newsletter on SAPA. There was a little bit of clarification on this issue. Judging by what the CRJ FO reserve situation is like, it seems pretty obvious why the upgrade class was "postponed" (hint, Fall block hour reduction seems like a fishy reason).
As far as the union vs. non-union thing, nothing you wrote has any validity to it whatsoever. Is this something you came up with by yourself? If so, I think we'd all be interested to know what that's based on.