Originally Posted by flyandive

Not really, we had a lot of Ex-Mesa Dash 8 folks with lots of Aspen time so the program expanded off of theirs. The manuals were written and for those of us who hadn't been in there, we got plenty of sim and line training. Which I greatly appreciated after listening to everybody else going in there. It seemed like us and SkyWest were the only ones who knew what they were doing up there. Seen and heard a lot of scary stuff from the corporate folks. Not a place to mess around with.

Although I think we did have a while with mostly junior pilots flying the Aspen lines because no one wanted to do 6 legs, all Aspen, all day for no money. No premium pay, short flights, lots of work, long briefings for each approach. They tried the premium pay for a month, then we lost that, then they mixed the day trips with ABQ and gave those lines the most days off. That seemed to work somewhat.