Originally Posted by
TimetoClimb
It's an assumption based on getting in early in the hiring wave there and having a seniority list growing beneath him quickly (they are planning to triple in size). At skywest, I think a large portion of the hiring is for attrition. Of course a skw FO schedule could be better or worse then a new capt at C5, admittedly I'm not privy to the intricacies of it all.
I can tell you from experience, the airline will not triple in size. There just aren't enough applicants out there to grow that much. TSA was predicted to triple in size and even before the fast upgrade train left the station, the new hire pool dried up.