West coast vs. East Coast?
05-08-2013, 02:05 PM
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Like Utah said, Skywest is parking lots of 50 seaters soon if they don't get new flying, yet it's pretty much hush hush when it comes to what negotiations are transpiring for contracts with their customers (the "Majors")
If Skywest does start parking planes because they're losing market share, and thus going bye bye in terms of growth, wouldn't more competitors move in to west coast areas, and open domiciles?
If Skywest does start parking planes because they're losing market share, and thus going bye bye in terms of growth, wouldn't more competitors move in to west coast areas, and open domiciles?
05-08-2013, 02:14 PM
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Originally Posted by What
They seem to like people who will fly to T-prop because most want to fly the Jet. Normally the Jet classes will be full while the T-prop classes will not be as popular. It's happening at RAH right now, when I was a new hire a girl cried the first day of INDOC because she was assigned a T-prop.
05-08-2013, 07:47 PM
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That map on page 1 is a population density map, hence tiny counties on the east coast are all red, and huge counties like Maricopa county in PHX with nearly 4 million people give only 1 red spot to all of AZ. TX also would appear to have a smaller population than MI on that map, but its acutally 3 times MI. Yes, the Eastern US has the majority of the population, but 41% of the US population lives West of the Mississippi. Not to mention the fact that since density is higher in the East, the distance between major metro areas is shorter and thus requires less air travel per population, especially in the BOS-WASH metropolis. Where as DEN, PHX, SLC, SEA, PDX, LAS, SFO, LAX etc. are kind of out on islands surrounded by hundreds of miles of "frontier" where highways that link them can take long detours to cross canyons and mountain ranges. Case in point, population in the west is smaller than east, but not as much as stated and air travel is utilized to a higher degree due to the vast geographic distances between everything. Ok now my overly analytical spewing is over.
As far as career options are concerned, you have Mesa, SkyWest and Horizon. If California is your choice location, I'd go SkyWest. They have 4 domiciles in CA, all of which are available on both aircraft and are relatively junior. On the CRJ you could probably get a CA base right out of training, and either way get the base you want in less than a year I'd say. Senior bases for jet FO are SEA, PDX, PHX, and SLC. Even so, when I was hired I was told the base I wanted would take over a year to get into, and I was awarded it before I even finished IOE, so you never know.
As far as career options are concerned, you have Mesa, SkyWest and Horizon. If California is your choice location, I'd go SkyWest. They have 4 domiciles in CA, all of which are available on both aircraft and are relatively junior. On the CRJ you could probably get a CA base right out of training, and either way get the base you want in less than a year I'd say. Senior bases for jet FO are SEA, PDX, PHX, and SLC. Even so, when I was hired I was told the base I wanted would take over a year to get into, and I was awarded it before I even finished IOE, so you never know.
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