Hiring..... is your company and what are mins
05-25-2008 | 11:31 PM
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nope, it will use former ExpressJet 145's and fortunately for those of us who get furloughed under our new owner Skywest Holdings, they will give us preferential interviews at Skywest Holdings to fly the same planes and routes back at year 1 pay. They're really considerate over there.
05-26-2008 | 05:41 AM
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nope, it will use former ExpressJet 145's and fortunately for those of us who get furloughed under our new owner Skywest Holdings, they will give us preferential interviews at Skywest Holdings to fly the same planes and routes back at year 1 pay. They're really considerate over there.
05-26-2008 | 07:47 AM
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Yeah it really sucks to have to go back to the bottom of the pile. I wish there was a way to earn pilot pay consummate with one's experience level, but this is what the glorious unions have given us. SKW is a good company, they are in a good position in this lean time. I only hope that they don't bite off too much and go under.
We really do have all of our eggs in two baskets (I understand that the Midwest stuff is operating at a loss) so diversifying into CAL and Airways when MESA eats it will help us to weather the looming United shut down. Hopefully there will not be too much loss of capacity in these next years and we can all remain employed. The next year or two will make or break a lot of our future careers in the cockpit.
We really do have all of our eggs in two baskets (I understand that the Midwest stuff is operating at a loss) so diversifying into CAL and Airways when MESA eats it will help us to weather the looming United shut down. Hopefully there will not be too much loss of capacity in these next years and we can all remain employed. The next year or two will make or break a lot of our future careers in the cockpit.
05-26-2008 | 01:47 PM
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ASA is hiring into a pool. I think minimums are 1000/50. I've been told when they take people out of the pool to put them in class (don't think it's happened yet) they take the most experienced people first, and not whoever interviewed first. Not sure if this is how all pools work, but there you go.
But yeah, still into a pool.
