The company is still hiring overseas pilots on temporary visas so they must be expecting something to improve with FO classes

 

I got some buddies at my flight school that are applying right now and they are getting interviews still. I think this wait for us, while it sucks, isn’t gonna be too bad. I’m only and hopefully just expecting a two to three months delay. But I’ll take shorter!

 

Obviously I'm hoping for the best for you guys, but I wouldn't really take that as a guaranteed good sign. Republic had been doing something similar when they delayed our classes before canceling them indefinitely. If you're a pilot who is hitting 1500 now and scheduled to go to class next month, they don't know what your story is going to be in 6 months if they can't put you in a class. You might jump to a different airline, sign a training contract with a 135, stop flying and lose proficiency, or just get so ****ed at the company that you don't want to be involved. They know that an indefinite cancel is going to cost them many if not most of their Feb/Mar/April CJOs and they are just going to try to replenish their pipeline.

Again, hoping that's not the case. But when an interview and CJO process costs maybe 5 hours of manpower and an empty FO seat (assuming the captain shortage gets fixed this year) costs hundreds of thousands in lost revenue, it just makes financial sense to maintain the status quo

 

exactly, receiving a CJO and then receiving no responses from my recruiter is very frustrating. Fortunately I was able to get hired at another operation. I wouldn’t advise waiting around for SkyWest, plenty of other opportunities out there in aviation to advance your career.

 

That’s not a good threat, we don’t need you.

 

Come on now, we wish everyone the best and someone doing something else doesn’t deserve a “we don’t need you.” Grow up.

 

Says the guy who said grow up on the internet.

 

Anybody have a class date for 2/20 with a CTP date 2/10? I know my class date is pushed back from the emails everybody has gotten but my SkyWest travel details still shows me going to ATP-CTP 2/10. I was wondering if this is pushed as well or am I still going to ATP-CTP or if anyone has heard anything. Tried reaching out to my recruiter, of course, no comms. Travel center called me back saying they don't know and I might get flight and hotel details next week but wasn't sure if it was happening?

 

LoL. RL isnt wrong.

Evidently FO candidate supplies are still in excess of demand. This sort of hr comms isnt new at Skw. I had the same thing years ago.

 

Latest seniority list shows that the CA/FO imbalance is almost exactly as large as when the forced upgrades began.. All that policy accomplished was to encourage more people to leave. Literally that's all it did. But just as many CAs have left as FOs, so the imbalance is still just as bad as it was.

Translation: the company has zero reason to bring any more FOs on property unless it can stop CAs from leaving.. And given that the company refuses to discuss QoL issues (the main reason most CAs are leaving), there's no indication that this situation will change at any time in the future. Unless the majors and LCCs stop hiring. That's the only thing that will realistically address the imbalance.