I didn't forget, but I know the differences.

SkyWest is a fine place to be as a pilot, but let's look at just a few things here.

Reserve rules: SkyWest is, well, lets call it what it is, abusive when it comes to particularly ready reserve assignments. Why? Because it can be. Ask an Endeavor pilot about ready reserve and he or she will describe an equitable policy with rules actually making a ready assignment desirable. Ask a Republic pilot, and you'll get an incredulous look, as my understanding is they dont even have ready reserve.

On the matter of pay, Endeavor has profit sharing and considerably higher pay rates, they also get paid when the door is closed and the brake drops, "latency" is an acars entry. Republic has some of the highest per diem in the regional sector, and an override for international flying, not to mention top pay well above that of SkyWest, particularly when also figuring in ATL and DTW are CRJ only, and both offer rapid advancement for the time being. I know Republic has a minimum of 150% on open time premium pay.

You mentioned travel benefits. Every Republic pilot, regardless of domicile, receives benefits on every partner airline. There is no domicile in the SkyWest system that offers this, and only a small handful that offer benefits on more than two. As you know, that means you can transfer from say MSP to DEN, lose your DL benefits, and be out the fee, even though you still work for the same company.

Endeavor, while limited to Delta benefits, gets priority above everyone except mainline on all jets except other partner employees on their aircraft-they go above us on Republic, they go above us on Delta, and so forth. It was great sitting in economy recently on my way back from BCN when a new hire Endeavor guy showed up to take my Delta1 seat last minute.

I could go on with commuter hotels, positive space commuter clauses, the list is long, and safe to say pretty much on every measurable criteria both Republic and Endeavor beat us. Besides, if your on the east coast Republic has like 12 bases all in the eastern timezone, no chance of your base shutting down and getting forced to commute to senior bases far from home and sitting ready reserve.

Anyway, there are a lot of great things about SkyWest, but my honest opinion and advice is, if you live east of the Rockies, you have a lot of great options to consider, and frankly I dont think we are competitive when taking in all of the quantitative factors, like work rules, pay, and benefits.

I'm not trying to be argumentative, I'd support and advise a person who wanted to live in Boise or Salt Lake to come here, it's been a great ride for me, but as I said, if you're planning to stay back east, I dont see it.

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