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01-18-2008 | 05:28 AM

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Dash8Pilot

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Originally Posted by JetJock16

Also remember that holding a line at SKW making 22/hr you'll make more than sitting reserve at Horizon, which you will do for almost a year (35 day bid period for guarantee lowers your yearly income quite a bit ($29 x 75 = x 10.43 bid periods per year = $22,683).

35 day bid does not lower your annual pay because the reserve guarantee is 86.3 hours per bid, which is roughly 75 hours per month. BTW, my first year at QX I sat reserve the entire time, put around 550 hours in my logbook, and including per-diem had a gross income of 33K. So, I likely made more first year at Horizon on reserve than I would at SkyWest as a lineholder.

01-18-2008 | 06:40 AM

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JetJock16

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Originally Posted by Dash8Pilot

35 day bid does not lower your annual pay because the reserve guarantee is 86.3 hours per bid, which is roughly 75 hours per month.

Beating a dead horse, back you a few postings.

01-18-2008 | 08:03 AM

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SongMan

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Hi,

What about if you live in Oakland? Where would be the closest base for Skywest? For Junior, would San Fran, OAK, or other near by base be possible?

thanks!

01-18-2008 | 08:18 AM

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WhiteH2O

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Originally Posted by BusDriverPNW

Horizon is hireing the website is wrong just they wont be doing alot! So apply if you want.

Are you sure about that? I heard from a few people at PDX Ops that said that the interviews on the 16th were the last interviews until they see exactly what this age 65 thing does to them. They seemed to think they were done for a while.

01-18-2008 | 08:44 AM

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polarpop

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From: B-737

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Originally Posted by Shaun

Age 65 is going to be messing stuff up for a while.

Yes it is! Especially for all of us trying to move on from a regional...

01-18-2008 | 08:49 AM

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polarpop

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From: B-737

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Originally Posted by SongMan

Hi,

What about if you live in Oakland? Where would be the closest base for Skywest? For Junior, would San Fran, OAK, or other near by base be possible?

thanks!

the closest skywest domiciles are san francsico, sacramento, monterey, and fresno. smf, mry and fat all have recent hires there in the brasilia and crj...