I fly for a Part 135 ERJ-145 operator and was hired at 775. I do just fine. We even hire at 500. 1,500 hours in a single engine Cessna won’t prepare you for a transport category aircraft any more than 500 will.

 

I need whatever hobbies he has! I would love to be that far away from airline reality

 

Is it? Skywest is around 46$ an hour x 75 / 2 = 1725 gross. Take out the deductions and tell me how far off my number was.

 

Sonic Flyer has always struggled with math

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I was talking to someone at a local university flight school and they have a full roster with something like 150 on the waiting list. I've also looked at BIZJETJOBS and just for instance they're showing a bunch of single engine turboprop jobs (like the PC-12) wanting 2000 PIC which if that's indicative of the industry as a whole some could be in for a rude awakening.

 

Yeah I’ve checked out those job boards before and from my experience they just put that number there and then hire lower or most even just end up hiring internally or through word of mouth. Conversely, we were discussing the 121 environment and quite frankly 1500 isn’t that hard to get to. Sure, you may not be hired to time build in a jet or turboprop unless you know someone or are in the military, but most build their hours until 500 TT instructing since that’s the minimum most insurance companies require elsewhere.

I’d say in today’s environment, lots of Part 91 and 135 operators will be hiring at lower time minimums due to the decrease in the pool of available pilots who are heading for the regionals if not there already. The amount of call backs I received from places I applied to early last year and summer prior to the regionals was shocking

 

So I wonder if that Republic program is going to give the students a year of training like I got in US Air Force UPT? I remember we had about a month of academics then were flying jets for the next 11 months (1981-1982). And prior to UPT you got some time in a military Cessna 172 or similar (depending on how you got your commission) unless you already had a PPL.
They're asking for the same reduction to 750 hours so they should get training just as good as we had.

 

The fact that Republic (or any airline) could think that their training is equivalent or even somewhat close to US military flight training is utterly, incredibly laughable.

 

Practically no one is making only that there... Also it goes from $47/hr to $52/hr after the first year. In addition there are bonuses and profit sharing...

From APC:
"Pilot Profit Share Payout Program for all pilots, paid bi-annually. Additional Operational Performance Bonuses for pilots after 1 year at SkyWest and Financial Performance Bonuses for pilots after 2 years at SkyWest, paid quarterly."

 

Except Operational Performance Bonuses have been in the $50-$75 range per quarter lately while the Financial Performance Bonuses are effectively over since Skywest is no longer making a profit and is not forecast to do so for the near future.
Pilot Profit Share payout is only guaranteed through this year, and was on the negotiating block to be terminated the last package for FO's. Only left in place after overwhelming rejection of the first attempt by management to cut real pay, while appearing to increase pay.