Originally Posted by
herewego
The Jets were contracted between United and Skywest back in the early 2000s for the promise of jobs in the future should the need arise.
More jets may not be on the way, but believe it or not attrition at Skywest is still occurring even with the pandemic making it not likely that those pilots are moving to legacies. Eventually we will need to hire, so if the J4J contract still holds those jobs should be going to furloughed United pilots.
Most of those pilots probably have a CRJ type rating so they can quickly be trained to temporarily fill the remainder of the deuces flying, as lifer regional pilots fly Skywest Heavy.
The old agreement from post 9/11 is void. All there is now is the UPA. One of the requirements is for a regional to offer jobs to pilots equal to 5 times the total number of aircraft that they fly for United. 3 out of 5 of those offers have to be into aircraft with a seating capacity greater than 50 seats, so in the case of SkyWest, only 2/5 of the new positions can be on the 50 seaters. This only applies if SkyWest is hiring, and if United furloughs past 1/23/16. Hopefully with the Covid LOA signed, by the time next summer gets here things will be better and the company won’t have time to furlough that deep. If things are still not improving, get ready for a bunch of 10,000+ hour new hires when you guys start hiring again.