Originally Posted by
WAVIT Inbound
As someone who is starting to put in resume's I have on question that no one seems to want to answer: If SkyWest is so bad why are so many 121 pilot's quitting their current job's to go there? It just seems to me that if having the union is so great and wonderful and makes their job's sooooo much better why quit your job at a unionized 121 carrier to go to that awful non-unionized SkyWest? Seems ironic to me but I seriously want to know.
Its not that a union makes your job better. What it does is gives you a contract with the company. And since its a contract they cant break it without an loa, and people have to agree to an loa anyway. where as at skywest i remember a few years ago when they changed the 8 hours bottle to throttle rule to 12 hours bottle to throttle. They did it without asking anyone. they just made it a rule. personally i think 8 hours isn't enough anyway, but that just goes to show you that if they can change that they will change anything,, all they have to do is get their buddys at sapa onboard, and we all know how easy that is. also ask the guys at colgan how much they want a union now that they were bought by a union carrier. all skywest is doing is whipsawing the asa (alpa) pilots to death! closing bases, taking planes, its one of the biggest whipsaws ever!