Originally Posted by
V4LKYR1ExONE
Ah, I see. I assumed Skywest management had some big brain planning going on. But if they’re doing full classes of 50 every week with no delays….. they must have access to dozens of SIMs, instructors and so on. That’s quite remarkable, good for them. Is there a lot of attrition at the Captain level to facilitate seniority list movement, or are all these new FOs going to sit reserve a while?
Critically, they have a large enough cadre of lifers many of whom serve as line check airmen. The smaller players do not so OE is where the largest bottleneck occurs. They lose line check airmen as fast as they make them. I suspect Republic is the only other regional in a similar position as Skywest in that regard but not quite to the same level.