35Right

Hi all,

What's the average credit one can expect once holding a line? Current corporate pilot planning for a possible transition later this year and will need to convince my spouse of the intelligence of such a move with data. I see the 76hr guarantee, but also know lineholders typically credit more than that. She thinks we'll be drawing welfare.

Also, in the past SKW was offering a $7,500 bonus for pilots who held a turbojet type rating, but now it appears to only be for RJ-typed individuals?

trip

https://www.skywest.com/skywest-airl...paign=HomePage

its still on the career page? Plan on 85 hours minimum when holding a line, not welfare but close, get your house in order.

Champeen07

I came over from corporate to Skywest. Its a massive pay cut. Training pay for almost 3 months, then reserve pay, then usually credit around 85 hours a month once you get a line. You can maybe drop and pickup premium and get to around 95 hours, but I wouldn't count on that every month.

The argument you to be made for doing the transition is that yes it will suck for 2 years until you upgrade. Then the pay is more tolerable. But once you make it to the majors, considering you have awhile until you retire, it will be the best decision you ever made for your career. Just have to stick out the tough times and remember its for the end goal. Later down the road when youre in your big house and taking nice vacations she will thank you for making the switch even though it sucked at the time.

35Right

You're right...my apologies. I only saw the "Upgrade your career" banner where it said $7,500 for RJ type rated pilots.

Thank you both for your replies.

FlyingDutch

The $7500 is for P135 experience as well! At least it was recently. Just ask your recruiter about it

brocklee9000

The average credit seems to be 86-88 range for lineholders, not including any premium and extra trips picked up. The lowest lineholders tend to get just over 76 awarded, and I've seen around 100 awarded too. But average is high 80s-low 90s. Everything else about training pay is accurate, training guarantee for about 3 months. Then reserve. That depends on season and base. I got lucky and had about 3 weeks of reserve, during the summer when flying was high and staffing was low, and credited 88 hours. Others in the same base sat reserve for several months without breaking guarantee. So reserve is hard to predict. The safest bet is to be conservative. Three months of training pay, and then 76 times starting pay. That'll give you a baseline minimum to expect. Per diem also helps. I was getting $400-800 per month in per diem (almost all nontaxed), with an average of about $640 per month.