My student's father is actually the top pilot at SkyWest and was the one who posts hiring announcements and I had the great opportunity to meet him just a couple of days ago and this is what he told me about them hiring. They made a contract with United as they obtained a couple of planes from them. The contract also stated that they needed to hire furloughed United pilots. So the hiring has been done and they posted the hiring announcement looking only for 6 non-United pilots. As for the future, he made a comment about receiving Brasillias in the future and will "definitely"(his words) be looking for pilots. When that is, it sounded to me like it would be some time this year, so I'm crossing my fingers.

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