Originally Posted by
BHopper88
WHAT?!?!? you are saying pilot wages and benefits are not awesome?? Say its not so.....
For the most part PDX/SEA will become the most senior bases in the SkyWest system (at least for captains). Estimated that a captain will need at least 10-15 years to hold a line. Dont get me wrong this does suck that AAG has opened the door for horizon to be pushed out or even sold, but on the other side this is just business and SkyWest is in the position to make money. Don't get mad at SkyWest for accepting a contract put out by AAG, look at your own management first. How is SkyWest bringing down the industry? What if the old rumors that SkyWest does buys horizon for those rumored Q400s and maybe gets Skywest to integrate pilot lists.. who knows but Skywest pilots are not the fault of the demise of Horizon. Remember we are "NON UNION" so with all the bashing that we have no contract or no say, yet we are somehow at fault for the possible demise of horizon?
The most Jr captain at QX is almost 11 years, don't pull that longevity crap. Horizon has and does continue to make money, despite our pay rates and benfits. So that argument is crap as well. As long as you and every person at skywest decides that you will continue to accept sub par wages, YOU ARE AT FAULT. I know you think its part of the game, but it is the livelihood of 3000 people at stake and that is at just this company. Every time you go to sleep, remember that it is because you would not stand up for what is right in this industry, people that would stand up lost their jobs. You can make more flying a twin cessna, at a profitable company, and make more then a emb-120 captain does at skywest. It really doesn't matter what I say, YOU will never get it, because that is who you are.