Originally Posted by
SMACFUM
I found this interesting. In the latest internal update from SkyWest's SAPA, they are saying that because of the marked increase in hiring at the company they are expecting training failures to increase.
The memo also cites SkyWest's training failure rate to be historically at 2.4%, compared to other regional airlines still at 15-25%. Not sure where they are getting this data.
It does depend on what statistics they are looking at. I know at my airline right now about 18% leave between day 1 of indoc and by the end of IOE. That might seem high, but if you actually compare things equally, you will find our training failure rate to be less than 4%. The rest either leave for other jobs or personal reasons. Some decide to go to the training department (which pays a lot more) and don't finish IOE, so that counts against the pass rate as well. We also have been hiring a large percentage of pilots with 5+ years in 121 or military, and they are moving up to the LCC's and majors before they finish IOE. Those count as people leaving as well.
Actual check ride failures are about 2-3%.
Skywest has a history of comparing apples to oranges to try to make themselves look better. And honestly, after seeing all of these forums and all of the crap that SkyWest is pulling against it's non-unionized pilots, it is hard not to look at SkyWest a newly emerging bottom feeder.