Originally Posted by disillusioned

While SkyWest has always been one of the better regionals for looking ahead, I really feel they have lost the vision and instead focus on short term gains for long term pains. Or maybe they are brilliant and like CCB is fond or saying, are playing 3D chess while we are playing checkers.

We have too many training events going on, not enough staff for the inefficient 117 pairings, and everyone is getting hosed with their schedules. Since we don't have a contract, they can just randomly adjust the minimum reserves and make it so nobody can drop a trip and a majority of our guys are only getting 10 or 11 days off a month. And this is in the slow season. By summer we will have burned everyone out and we will get more messages from MT talking about how we need to improve our performance. Meanwhile, we will work harder than we should to fill classes or hire people that will get a type then quit and provide no relief to our overworked pilots.

Sometimes I really think they are just pushing the envelope to see how much they can get away with before we bring in a union. At this point, I think it would be better for the company and I don't think it was the threat that it has been in the past. But our apathetic pilot group will just keep watching our QOL diminish little by little until we finally realize we need protection, but we will be starting negotiations from almost zero by that point.

But at least we will save 2%....