Originally Posted by
Flymeaway
Okay cool, that looks like a pretty good list. Certainly a lot of things I don't know right now. Could I ask what the answers are for SKW on those things?
I believe that SKW uses PBS and TSA is in a PBS "trial period" right now.
Would you say dropping/trading would be very difficult at SKW because skeds won't authorize anything unless they come up with the idea themselves?
Daily guarantee is 4:12 for SKW and 4.25 (which I assume means 4:15) for TSA.
Trip rig at SKW is 1:4.
The rest I haven't found any information about.
Thanks again!
Duty guarantee: 1 hour of pay minimum for each 2 hours of scheduled duty. 11 hour scheduled day pays a minimum of 5:30. Notice I said scheduled. If you are delayed it does factor in.
Premium pay: On a day scheduled over 12 hours of duty there is a 1 for 1 guarantee in addition to the duty guarantee. A 13 hour day pays a minimum of 7 hours credit. You'll see this on some of the better split duties.
Minimum daily guarantee. Make sure it covers every day and is not averaged. Some airlines don't pay it when you have a 30 hour overnight and don't fly on that day. Some airlines look at your total days worked and make sure it just averages above the mdg.
On schedules, I fly primarily locals or split duties. I can usually get someone else to pick those up from me on days I want off. SLC as a lot of those trips. I think COS and DEN have a lot of longer trips, 3-4 days and it may be a little harder to make schedule adjustments.
PBS has many complainers but it works for me bidding mid pack. I can usually get the days off I want and it's possible to wind up with a large number of days off in row without using vacation. I can sometimes bid down to 60 or so hours or bid up over 100. And that's credit not block. A 100 hour credit month may only have 40-90 hours of block.
Not to say everything is perfect at SkyWest, far from it, but look beyond just the pay rates.
You did mention something that almost no one else does in that the first available upgrades at this point are only back east. Left seat currently anywhere DEN and west is considerably longer.