I'd budget for 75 hours a month and then be pleasantly surprised when you earn more. A realistic guesstimate is between $24-27,000.

As long as Rickair brought up open time, I see Brasilia FO's in FAT have over 350 hours of open time to chose from. Sheesh...thank heavens we're not running classes for a few more months.:rolleyes:

Great...I can't pick up beans on the Jet. Want to trade, Timmay?? With a 75-hour line, I might as well be on reserve!

Yeah, no joke man. At least I lucked out and got a good line for the month. These last few months have been killing me with bizarro schedules and no options to drop or swap.

Skywest pilots do not have a contract. They are at will employees.

Yep - it's just awful...!

I have 8 hours this month... and last month I think I got 20... minimum guarantee with no per diem is brutal. =/ I would have been able to hold a relief line next month, but I'm transferring to LAX starting April 1st. Ooooh well =( I'm gonna be blown away when I finally start flying and get a (semi)real paycheck!

I'm not SKYW btw... But my point is that you really should plan for the guarantee.. When I was in training there was open time galore, and red flag (150%) pay all over the place... and people were getting lines almost right off the bat out in LAX and ONT. Ya just don't know what it will be looking like by the time you get out there, so plan accordingly. Make sure you have a good credit card to live off for a year =)