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STILL GROUNDED
I have not been able to find anything about days off at Skywest, do you get some?
A few. I finished IOE beginning of October, have a line in SLC with 19 days off next month (will credit only 75hrs though).
I would be interested in trying to understand why then our quality of life has to suffer so greatly to compete with companies that really don't pay that differently. We are really only talking about a couple of thousand a year, not that big in the whole scheme of things. But there is always a steady stream of employees leaving here to go to either carrier. WHY?
Whoa...
2nd year CRJ FO pay based on guarantee at Mesa: 19,152
2nd year CRJ FO pay based on guarantee at SkyWest: 31,500
(and these don't take the .45/hr difference in per diem)
They "don't really pay that differently"? Huh? 12,500/year isn't really that different? And upgrade times are basically identical right now. So the question is why you guys are being made to suffer so greatly when the competition is paying a lot better...my uninformed guess would be that it's the pay and QOL that's causing the Mesa-->SkyWest exodus.