Thread: Got a call from SkyWest today, but................
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Old 07-13-2008 | 06:31 AM
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Originally Posted by JetJock16

They’ll run EMB classes when they need to and if they need RJ FO’s then they’ll run transition classes. This will help to keep moral high (EMB FO’s get to move over to the RJ and make more money) and new hires happy seeing that they will actually work on the EMB.
Who's moral? There are many-many CRJ FOs, including myself, who were hired in the last year, and can't see much to be excited about. We were sold on an idea that there was to be "600 new FOs in 08" (a direct quote from the recruiter at the open house), and we would be holding bases of our choice, and possibly a line by now. Well, 8 months of reserve later and I am stuck in a domicile far away from home, and actually moving backwards on the CRJ seniority list due to the EMB120 guys and gals moving over to the jet side. It seems the company sees the need to freeze transfers until further hiring resumes, but keep moral high for the EMB pilots? I feel like a bathmat for the other pilots who paid their dues in the Bro. I understand my place on the seniority list. It's just that I have no moral for the immediate future, and don't understand why SKW is stuffing more pilots into the jet right now. BTW, I did bid for a transition down into the EMB, and was frozen till later this year.
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