SkyWest
 

PILOT - Professional Development Career Guide


To be considered for a Pilot position, you must meet the following requirements:



1,000 - hours total time
100 - hours multi engine


100 - hours instrument (Max 20 hours simulator)
Must be at least 21 years of age

All applicants will need a current first class medical (which will verified at your interview)
Must be a United States citizen or show proof of right to work in the US



SkyWest Minimum Requirements When Counting Helicopter or Glider Time
SkyWest Airlines recognizes the skills common to helicopter and glider flying. SkyWest will accept up to one hour of flight time for every two hours helo time. Not to exceed 250 hours of helicopter time.

Example:

750 hours fixed wing
500 hours helo
2 /500 = 250
750(fixed) + 250(helo) = 1000 hours total time



Please complete an on-line application before attending a Group Interview. To fill out an application on-line GO TO JOB OPENINGS and click on the group interview that you wish to attend. Bring a printed copy of the on-line application with you in order to participate in the Group Interview.


How will they verify at interview? Review papers or mini-physical?

V/r,
Cajuns Fan...

Horizon
 

Horizon does like retired military. They don't have to worry about earning a living. Ex-Military also are use to being pushed around by a supreme entity. Tehy do well at the factory.

SkyHigh

Keep Smoking the good stuff SkyHigh! I have been at QX for 7 years and make a very good living. I did put in my 5.5 yrs in the right seat of the Dash. IT IS A JOB MAN!!! If you are not happy today, you never will be. You Dumb Asses go chasing every lame upgrade, $ and Rj you can. I have seen WAY more of my friends chase Lakes, Mesaba, Air Whisky, now SkyWest right into the Furlough line. Skywest is doing Great. Good for them. REMEMBER, "companies like Skywest are not airlines anymore. They are in a much tougher business, which is selling capacity and crew time to major airlines. It's a segment of the industry that's already over-populated with players and with small jets. A culling of the herd is inevitable." SkyWest HAD to buy ASA to keep Delta out of BK. They know if Delta runs out of cash, They will be left out in the cold. " it's the equivalent of borrowing from the kids to make the house payment, in order to keep a roof over their heads."

Keep in mind where the info is comming from as well , "I may be a scab at heart. Do you expect me and my peers to sit on the sidelines and deny ourselfs to protect your position of privilage? Is that what we are supposed to do? " Posted By SkyHigh . I feel bad you lost your job and just look up at the sky at the rest of us. That was your choice my friend. You could get back in line at any time.

Bright Horizons?
 

Believe the "bitter boys". It may be hard to swallow but the reality is there is but a handfull of pilots making over 100K in a regional jet. All work and no pay make for a bad day.

Don't assume however that Horizon should take a pay cut just because others pay horribly. Let's try not to race to the bottom in pay. Keep your head up and don't have a defeatest attitude. We are professional and deserve to be paid like one. We are helping to keep our companies afloat. We will expect our pay to return to previous levels when profits return.

Fly safe

Dash Trash
 

If you are happy doing that job then good for you. I have a lot of friends who hired on with you and they are screaming and clawing at the walls to get out of there. Some people seem to like that job and that is great. Congradulations, you have reached your goal. I was 30 when I got hired there and was starting a family. It was obvious that there was no way I could do that on Horizon wages. Good companies don't have to use training contracts to keep their employees.

The needs and expectations of my generation are very diffrent from you guys. I'll bet that you are in your late 20's or early 30's. You have time to kill. By the time you reach 40 that pay check will seem a little slim and the dash a little cramped. Had I been hired in my lower 20's I am sure I would have a diffrent outlook. All the same, few people ever leave Horizon to go to the majors compared to other regionals. Almost everyone I have ever known who hired on there has never left. I took a chance leaving Horizon and lost. I do miss flying, but not for Horizon.

When I first started flying regionals didn't exsist. Horizon was a small commuter and the only job worth having was at the majors. I still think that way. Your generation looks to the regionals as a lifetime career. Good for you, someone has to do it. I have known pilots who left Horizon to be firefighters, work construction and sewer pump trucks drivers. My biggest gripe is that the pay is very much below what the general population earns, and in the end most of us have to make a living.

SkyHigh

DashTrash
 

I dont think sky high is smoking anything. If you have been at Horizon for 7 years and think that it is as good of place as you are describing you must be the one smoking something, or your last name is Hauggard or Hahn. Unless your out in Denver you are obviously in the minority of current pilots who think Horizon is the place to be. I am not saying that you should chase the RJ or the $ but the belief that it is great is the reason the next contract will be just as bad as the current one if not worse.

It will be if you vote yes.

How did this turn into a Horizon thread?

Alaska will be 44 this winter and about the same this spring. Best of luck.

The latest bid award (Sept 16) effective Jan 1, 2006 has about 45 new hire spots on it. Most are for LAX 737. Check the web site for info on how to apply. Generally they want West coasters, College, Non-smokers, 35-40 year olds with around 4000 hours and significant PIC.