Originally Posted by
Excargodog
If the most constraining factor in OO flying their allotted hours is CA availability, it’s either get more CAs or shrink. The DEC pool is pretty much drained.
And every additional 121 SIC hour going to someone who already has 1000 hrs is one hour that can’t go to the junior FOs who need the hours to become upgrade eligible.
It isn’t cruelty, it isn’t punishment, it’s just math.
Yeah the eligible captain pool will be drained by the end of the year. The majority of captains at SkyWest are getting their ass kicked right now averaging over 90 hours of block per month. It’s a defeating job and I’m sure TG heard it from a few who were willing to let him know about it. This is a quick answer to settle it down but it’s a reactionary borderline impulsive decision.
What’s important here is knowing the classic bait and switch routine by management hiding out in SGU. This may seem as if it’s a move to reduce the load for current CA’s on property, but we’re flying 60% of what we could be flying contractually. So what will most likely occur is more flying and now they got 2500 CA’s flying 90 hours of block per month instead of 1900.