Originally Posted by
TheTransporter
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.
I am not moving to one of these bases and I feel very bad for the Horizon crews and other employees. This deal sucks. That being said I feel I have to make this point lest we be blinded by our anger. Every single horizon transplant I have flown with at SKW tells me they make more here than they did at Horizon. The dollar per hour wage is only one part of compensation. When you add in work rules, bid period differences and bonus our compensation packages are at the least very similar. From what I am told by people who have been there SKW is actually better. What AAG wants is for Horizon to blame SKW. It really is all about AAG. Lets direct the anger where is belongs.