Good to see Kirillthethrill has moved on from the Gojet forum to pester people here at Skywest!

Do you have nothing better to do?

Depends on CA/FO and longevity. Third FO at UA is looking at &12.5k/month at guarantee (73) and a NB CA is $19k.

Ok, once again my original post is not comparing regional and major pay or work rules. That’s not even remotely debatable lol, and idk where you got that 10x more pay number, that’s incorrect.

I was commenting on why you have lifers at SkyWest. When you have CA’s making $150,000 driving 15 mins to work at one of their domiciles that majors don’t offer as hubs. If said individual left for UA/DL/AA, they would become a lifelong commuter. It would be especially tough their first year making substantially less (can they afford to have that happen?) and QOL wouldn’t exist when in comparison to what they had.

Yeah, and driving to that reserve/line gig, which will be my future in a short minute, BEST JOB IN THE WORLD.

The lifer captain gigs at SKYW are likely to get better. Experienced regional captains are soon to be the coin of the realm and SKYW has the ability to move quickly to reward them.

might have the ability, but it won’t. They (lifers) will be expected to work more days to keep the operation moving along. Eventually, as many are already talking about, the lifers will just quit.

Yup. Once QOL goes to crap they’re gone.

I think they’re going to have to match mainline FO pay or they’re not going to be able to keep the lights on. Already closing markets to cover the contract flying. The mainlines will need to be part of the solution before it all melts down. Things are getting real interesting.

It's possible Skywest will act foolishly. But they're the only regional with a real chance to keep the lights on .. ie with enough senior people to run the training machine required. And, crucially, they have the ability to offer targeted bonuses without negotiating an LOA. They can afford to pay their LCA's $250k/yr and they can do it the second they want to. If anyone survives this, it will be skywest, but it will be because a skywest LCA job becomes a legit career destination

What do you guys mean by survive 'this'? just the pilot shortage or what else is going on?