Skywest commuters
 

Any skywest commuters? Easy or hard from your location? Schedule make it easy to commute or is a crashpad needed? Just looking for some opinions on it. Thanks in advance.

-Sling

My fiancee was in COS for a month on reserve and basically didn't come home because it was 5 on 2 off. Most of their lines (out of ORD at least) are 4 on 3 off. There are some 3 on 4 off but you better be in the top 5 to get it.

Anyone based in DEN? Hows the bids out of DEN? DEN and ORD most junior? Thanks in advance.

I have never commuted for Skywest in Denver, but I have flown non-rev on United and Skywest constantly (30/40 times a year) for the last 5 years, and I have almost never had a problem getting on flights. There's just too much service, too many connections, plently of seats.

Commuting to Denver will not be a problem! Commuting from anywhere specific? I can try to give you some more specific insight.

MCI, Kansas City, thinking about skywest and Horizon. I like denver. thanks for replying.

Looks like MCI-DEN is very commutable. 7 flights a day (2 on Skywest, 5 on United), 2 CRJ-700's, 3 737's, 2 757's. The 757's have 24 first class seats (Shoot for those).

I looked at this coming Thurs, Fri, and Sat and those flights were PACKED. But I forgot this week is Spring break. So I looked at the next Thurs, Fri, and Sat (March 30-April 1) and the flights look pretty open (60-80% full). This looks like a sure shot.

If you get stuck, the flights are about once every 2 hours, so it is not that bad. ORD looks like your only feasable connection. But don't worry, once you get MCI-ORD, ORD-DEN is easy with United, AMR, Frontier. United flys 17 flights a day ORD-DEN, and many of them are widebody 767 and 777.

Hope this helps.

SKW has a lot of small bases compared to many other regionals.

But if you you are commuting on UAL, be aware UAL non-revers get charged a mileage fee. This can be a double-whammy, cuz the mainline guys will often want to sit in the jumpseat to avoid the fee.

Also, I believe that in the united system, mainline guys have non-rev and maybe jumpseat priority over the regional guys, even on a regional aircraft! So a UAL pilot can show up at the last second and kick you out of the jumpseat of your OWN aircraft:mad:

First part is true. United charges a small service charge. It works out to about 1 penny per mile. If you are going SFO-DEN, I think it is $11 for a 1000 mile flight. Not bad.

For the second part, yes United guys get priority over regional guys on United aircraft, but NOT on Skywest aircraft. On skywest, skywest employees are BP-8 and united employees are BP-9.