Originally Posted by
Casualinterest
While YES, I agree that you shouldn't sacrifice SIGNIFICANT qol to come here, if you're someone who might have a harder time standing out from the crowd, it might benefit you to do the guaranteed interview here.
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But, if you can live in base somewhere else do that!
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I ran into a Skywest Captain yesterday and he was telling me that Skywest runs their PBS, awards their schedules, and then adds involuntary straight pay "company need" trips on top of their PBS awarded schedule. Evidently for this guy, they put 2 trips right on top of a stretch of days off he needed and was awarded off in PBS.
Their open time pays either 115%, 130% or 150% while all of ours is 150% and often 200%. Not to mention our pay rates are $25+ an hour more at straight pay.
We complain about our 4.5 hour day room requirement, apparently Skywest's is 6 hours.
I agree living in base is awesome but it sounded to me like the QOL of life here is sooooo much better.
Frankly I couldn't believe what he was saying with regard to what kind of treatment they get. Keeping in mind they don't have a contract at all, so there's no union protection from any of it.