I'm a CRJ driver for a Skywest Inc. company, can I have some money too? We can negotiate, maybe trade the 5k bonus for M&Ms to be put back in the first class basket?

He should at least have gotten a "Thanks but no thanks E-mail". What was their feedback the day you interviewed?

Yes, they said within two weeks. They said to go home and check your email like ery day and spam folder too!? Get ready for the 26 Jan class, they said.

So I did.

I'd be super worried but I know a few of us are in this boat.

I've been in touch with them. Last word I got on Thursday was "the director" will contact me with his decision sometime this coming week.

They fired the hiring manager so the place is probably having issues right now

The Main page shows that upgrade times at SkyWest are at 7ish years right now?!? Is that really the case?

If so what evidence is there that upgrade times will come down to 3 years?

I'm not sure what a new hire can expect, but I will be here 4 yrs in a couple months and I should be less than a year from upgrade...I think it's definitely coming down, but as usual, anything can and will change!

I don't know SkyWest's specific history, but the case for many of the regionals was this: following the 2008 recession, they stopped hiring and didn't begin again until 2011-2013. That means there is a several year gap in date of hire at some point in the seniority list.

Once the last guy who got hired before the recession in 2008 upgrades, let's say next year (8 year upgrade), the next guy in line is, say, a 2012 hire, and suddenly it's a 4-year upgrade.

Obviously it's a case by case basis with each regional and details vary accordingly. Also, growth or a lack thereof affects upgrade time. But that's the gist of how it can come down quickly.

Same at Skywest. Should be getting to the 4-5 year upgrade in the near future...provided we are able to keep contracts and get some renewals.

People keep saying this but I don't think it is a close as everyone says. Most Jr CA in the last award was hired 12/31/08 so that is a six year upgrade. However, a bulk of the class was 11/07 hires (7 year upgrade) We have around 110 EMB CA to move over, plus 435 FO's that are above the most Jr CA.

That would mean around 6 months to just transition all the EMB pilots, and another year at our current rate to get what FO's out of that 435 that want to upgrade. So by the end of the year, you may be getting through those pilots that want to upgrade from that list (100 at most that have no desire to upgrade??) So now you are in 2016 and you can finally start upgrading the 2008 hires. There were around 100 pilots hired that are still here, and then you can start on the 2010 hires (39xxx numbers). That is still a 6 year upgrade.

You have 566 FO's to upgrade before you even start on the 2011 hires and we won't get those done within 18 months. I would love to be sunshine and unicorns, but I don't see us getting to a 3 or 4 year upgrade simply because we can't upgrade FO's to CA's fast enough while also training new FO's. That is the scary situation we are facing and what I would guess is keeping those in SGU that still care up at night.