I'm hoping to interview with SkyWest soon. I'm currently at 1350TT / 95ME. I was speaking with a SkyWest recruiter yesterday and they are not budging on the 100ME. She told me that they are definitely hiring and that she will be excited to speak with me as soon as I meet the 100 ME requirement. Until that time, gotta keep flying. Frankly I'm glad, I hope to get on with SkyWest and I want to work at a place that has tried to uphold its standards. I've had to work hard to attain the flight time that I have as I know everyone who is already at SkyWest has had to do. I don't want the Captains that I'm going to fly with to look down on us new guys because management decided to lower minimums. IMHO, I think its a mistake for SkyWest to publish on its website that the 1000TT is "preferred". If they want to recruit someone with less than that, it's their business. But by putting the word preferred on the website, it invites people to apply with far less than 1000TT. If someone already has some 121 experience, then lowering time requirements may make sense. But for those of us coming out of a CFI job or some other form of GA flying, 1000TT seems like the right minimum.

 

oh and ANP, I'm hoping (if I get hired (fingers crossed)) to be assigned the BRO in FAT. So hang on and you may get some relief and then get a chance to slide over to the RJ.

 

Could someone please post the link where it says "preferred" next to 1000 hours total time? I cannot find such language on the company website.

 

i think the 100 hours of multi time is shenanagens. got my mei, got my "hundred multi" and more. then i flew the caravan for a thousand hours, got hired with a regional no problemos. My roommate did the same exact thing sans the mei and multi time. got like 30 hours of twin from riddle, and the likes of colgan are hasseling him about his lack of twin time?! I mean the dude pic'ed a caravan for a 135 and they think he need some time in a seminole to what? really load up on debt? seriously what are you going to learn in the second fifty hours in a light twin that you are not going to learn in the first. Unless there some insurance reg im not aware of i just dont get makin 100 hours of light twin golden time. Specially when the guy is skilled and has shown he knows how to fly.

 

http://www.skywest.com/careers/index.php

Once on that page you have to click on "Pilots" under the "Career Guides" heading.

 

i agree 100% with what you said in your paragraph regarind caravan time. but this sentence is probably where you hit the nail on the head. i'd bet (and i have no actual information to back this up), that it is in fact an insurance consideration. heck, why even be qualified in a multiengine plane at all, in the overall scheme of things? f16 guys can get hired by majors, and there is only one engine on those. so i'm sure it's an insurance thing that is just easier to draw a very hard line somewhere and not look at someone's "specifics".