I'm hoping to interview with SkyWest soon. I'm currently at 1350TT / 95ME. I was speaking with a SkyWest recruiter yesterday and they are not budging on the 100ME. She told me that they are definitely hiring and that she will be excited to speak with me as soon as I meet the 100 ME requirement. Until that time, gotta keep flying. Frankly I'm glad, I hope to get on with SkyWest and I want to work at a place that has tried to uphold its standards. I've had to work hard to attain the flight time that I have as I know everyone who is already at SkyWest has had to do. I don't want the Captains that I'm going to fly with to look down on us new guys because management decided to lower minimums. IMHO, I think its a mistake for SkyWest to publish on its website that the 1000TT is "preferred". If they want to recruit someone with less than that, it's their business. But by putting the word preferred on the website, it invites people to apply with far less than 1000TT. If someone already has some 121 experience, then lowering time requirements may make sense. But for those of us coming out of a CFI job or some other form of GA flying, 1000TT seems like the right minimum.