There are 20 Fo's out of San. Don't know how many line holders there are. I would imagine less than 20. The #20 guy was hired sometime this year. Everyone above him has been with the company over a year. The most junior FO EMB bases are FAT and PSP. Most new hires go to these two bases. Sometimes they go elsewhere depending on company need. Fat seems to have the largest influx of new hires and the largest transferring to other domiciles too.
As a line holder I have 12 days off in June. Probably could have gotten more but I bid 5 four day trips because my kids like to eat!
If you really really love flying, you could work your days off. Sometimes after a long four day trip, I don't want to see an airplane for a couple of days and I love to fly! Realistically I would think you could work half of your off days just to give your body and brain a rest. That is what I have done in the past. It was "pleasure flying" not "professional flying" so you may find different limits for yourself. Do whatever you need to to make ends meet in your first year.

 

There are three flights per day on X-Jet from SAN-FAT, plus the tons of flights that run FAT-LAX and LAX-SAN. Probably wouldn't be too hard of a commute. That's if you get the bro of course. On the jet, reserve time in FAT is around a year (at least for me), so you might want to pick another base if you are going to commute from SAN. The one month I did have a line, I was off 16 days. You can probably work it so you can get at least 14 off per month with a line. On reserve, it will always be either 10 or 11 off, unless you take vacation or other leave.

 

I read the post about no corporate flying gigs but how does Skywest feel about flying for the Guard?

 

Legally they have no say in the matter, but I haven't had any problems or heard of any from reserve/guard members.

 

As I'm sure you know there isn't anything they can do about it. As for how they feel, I couldn't tell ya the interviewers' preferences but I had two guys in my new hire class that were with the guard. I talked to both around the 1 year mark and both were flying a lot more with their guard units than with SKW. You may have to downplay your planned flying but once you're on there's nothing SKW can do about it

 

Yep...know a couple of guard flyers in mke that barely stay current at SkyWest! CP is real understanding too...

 

I received permission from BH to do outside flying (non-military) but with the understanding that if it ever interfered with my job at SKW the consequences would be severe.

 

They should have no problem with it. The guard flight time doesn't count towards commercial flight time mins. 30/7 100month. Thats why they have issues with other commercial flying gigs is that you're using up your available flight hours flying for somebody else and not making money for them.

 

One complication of flying guard/reserve, and not getting time at SkW is not meeting the 1000 hr crew time to upgrade.

Had one guy in my new hire class flying the C17 overseas with this problem.