Excellent! The more often the better

 

none of that has anything to do with that scheduler, though, or decisions that he made. You can thank Adam Timperly, Paul Hoffman, Bob Gleason, Mike White, and perhaps even Rick Leach / Hulas Kanodia for all of the pain!

 

The beatings will continue until morale improves

 

Real talk though...with news of vacations being taken away from FOs again for the month of May, constant junior manning and Crib pay emails from frantic schedulers, and no end in sight for raised floors and decreasing pairing efficiency leading to many minimum-day-off lines, when is something going to give? The company desperately needs FOs right now, yet half the reason you come to a regional like this one is quick seniority gains for decent quality of life (days off, efficient trips, etc.) for the time that you're here. Current FOs know we're very far from that right now, and I can't see any end to the current status quo of being overworked any time soon. Couple that with decreased upgrades/inaccurately advertised upgrade times and the problem of not attracting/retaining FOs gets even worse. What reason do current FOs have to stay here, and why not choose a higher paying more "stable" regional, or even an LCC if that's an option for you starting out? Does anybody have any reason to think the schedules/staffing will get better in the near future? Not sure what the latest is about schoolhouse new-hire output but last I heard things aren't going so smoothly in there either.

All that being said, if you want to build a lot of time quickly and can stand being at work most of the month, then look no further than Compass Airlines.

 

Maui Now : SkyWest Airlines and Mokulele Announce Pilot Pathway Program

 

We're seeing around 6 per class every week, roughly. It was asked what their plans were to bring in new pilots, how they're going to attract people and their answer was "we're gong to keep doing what we're doing." Basically keep going to schools and job fairs to try and recruit. No mention of money, contracts, QOL, flows, interviews...

But if you come here you will fly and not sit around wishing you were flying

 

I could have sworn the saying went "better to be on the ground wishing you were flying rather than flying wishing you were on the ground" instead of the other way around. I guess that's why there haven't been droves of people coming...

 

Interesting this is basically what I suggested Compass do a few months ago but with an added second flow to HA after some amount of time as a captain at Compass. Well at least SKW is making an effort to attracted new hires and not just sitting back hoping new hires just show up like it seems we are doing.

 

May vacations are going to be taken. Oh joy. No reason to stay here, especially as a senior FO. I guess if you live in base, but for commuters, what's even the point?

 

At least Appleton has fresh cheese curds...and Spotted Cow