This. Several years ago they went as far as putting out a memo here saying "don't drop the brake until you're ready to push". I believe the on-time performance was below 40% for the three days it took them to rescind the memo. Even if you've got the door closed at D-3, traffic behind you could easily make you late out.

Of course with zero union protection, I suppose it's possible Skywest could fire individual pilots for on-time performance but at some point they can't fire everyone.

With regard to the 6 year guy fired for being on the organizing committee, if you're at a non-union carrier and you're on the organizing committee, you've got to keep your nose clean and follow absolutely all the rules. If you do, it's illegal to fire you for attempting to organize a union, if they haven't crossed their T's and dotted their I's they could easily be sued for that. However oftentimes the easiest way to sue for wrongful termination is through the union, so without a union you've got to go get your own lawyer.

Just one more reason I'm shocked Skywest can fill classes. I guess west coast bases trumps Pay, QOL and union protections.

I wouldn’t be so quick to say this. This change is so they can better identify problem areas in the operation.

It's slowly cropping up again, but fortunately our contract (its a thing a union and company sign that clearly spells out work rules, requirements, pay, protection) is cut and dry. If they want to enforce this, I'd happily drop the brake at push in exchange for a rig or getting rid of SAT for marketing times.

And when the short the marketing times again (when the SAT language was written) you'll be begging for SAT again.

A rig here would fix a lot.

True. Amazing how CS always manages to cut a few minutes off legs and turns to make IROP days legal.

Rigs would fix this and the firebreaks.

It surprising company's haven't changed to a system based on aircraft movement as the technology is available .

I'd love to get a 2:1 duty rig but I don't know what we have that's valuable enough to trade for it.

Maybe on this training scheduling LOA a better trade would have been a duty rig over an increase in long call percentage.

I've heard the company wants to end in-class recurrent and do it all remote via LMS, maybe that's valuable enough for a rig or another day off for line holders to match reserves.

I want a duty rig but it'll be hard to secure one.

An explanation of Ratio in Guarantee
https://www.airlinepilotcentral.com/...-rigs-101.html

They have here for 117 flight time, it's now based on forward movement but they can't change brake release for pay without negotiating with the union because that's defined in our contract.

For Skywest they could change theirs tomorrow and they'd have nothing to do about it. No union. No contract.

When you outsource the ramp operation, this is what you get. No matter how hard they try to fix the ramp, if you don't proactively drop the brake, on-time performance will go down the tubes.