Originally Posted by
mohaupt
I work for ASA so take this with a grain of salt.
Why not interview at both places if you have the time. Talk to the pilots at both places get a feel for the company while you are there. From there make your decisions, either way you will be flying an aircraft for a 121 carrier making ABOUT the same amount of money IN THE LONG RUN.
What a lot of people on this forum fail to realize is that not everyones choice A company will be that for everyone else. Choice B might work better for you and your needs. Just because XXXX on APC Forum says that SKY or RAH or XJT is the best company to work for doesn't mean that it is the best company for YOU to work at.
hope this helps
~m
Well put!
As for SKW, it wouldn't take you that long to get ATL. You'll probably get it before you finish IOE. Currently the ATL domicile has 18 FO's and 16 lines; but SKW actually has 48 lines of flying (and increasing) out of ATL. They’re having a hard time staffing ATL, for no other reason than SKW is a west coast airline. 99% of the pilots are west coasters themselves so as more people choose to go ATL then they’ll slowly bring the lines up to speed. Don’t listen to any BS about our ATL domicile being temporary, that’s just BS. Mark my words; by next year we’ll have over 200+ crew members there and a chief pilot (currently we have an assistant chief). If ATL is temporary then why would SKW be spending all that money on our new crew lounge. I was touring our new lounge two days ago, which should open up in the next 2 weeks, it’s large and EXTREMELY nice.
Until more crew members choose to be based in ATL then the outstanding ATL flying will be flown by SLC crews.
BTW, I am ATL based and am one of the most senior FO's there. I should be upgrading soon and I'll be able to hold ATL CA.