SkyWest: Training Delays?
02-05-2023 | 01:22 PM
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They could come up with plenty of career advancement opportunities to settle CA attrition down but they can’t give up the idea of connecting the world with 4 separate legacy partners. You can’t set up a flow program with Delta and think United’s going to be happy about that and do business with you in the future. They called it “lowering overall risk” in the earnings transcript but it’s not lowering anything, just killing their entire business. Chip is legitimately running SkyWest into the ground with that business plan. It also sounds like AA is pulling the same move they did with Mesa and not matching the new pilot pay scales. Nice lil $60 million loss for St. George.
What’s worse is Chip basically said their only solution is to beg United/Delta to stop hiring their Captain’s or they won’t be able to meet their contract obligations. The result, OO Captains sniff that out when they see less qualified candidates being picked off at destination airlines, especially United atm, and they just apply everywhere and focus more on leaving SkyWest at any cost.
What’s worse is Chip basically said their only solution is to beg United/Delta to stop hiring their Captain’s or they won’t be able to meet their contract obligations. The result, OO Captains sniff that out when they see less qualified candidates being picked off at destination airlines, especially United atm, and they just apply everywhere and focus more on leaving SkyWest at any cost.
Say what you want about Chip, but saying he is responsible for running the airline into the ground is silly. The circumstances of the industry are running the regional model into rocky territory, and EVERYONE is in the same situation. Come on man, you have to do better than this.
02-05-2023 | 02:35 PM
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02-05-2023 | 06:03 PM
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Chip this…chip that…there isn’t a single person I’d rather have at the helm of this company for the all challenges this company (industry) has gone through. He understands business and has probably turned down a lot of offers to run less dynamic companies for more money, yet here he is.
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02-05-2023 | 06:10 PM
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I had a CTP date for 2/3, ERJ class 2/13 and I said screw it, paid for my own CTP so I could get that written out of the way and become eligible for other airlines (I have lots of turbine time). I emailed Skywest, saying that I no longer needed the CTP, and they said that if I wanted a faster date, to switch to CRJ. The fact that at least one Feb CRJ class was pushed back only a month reinforces this. I still have heard nothing about a new date for the ERJ.
02-05-2023 | 08:48 PM
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Chip this…chip that…there isn’t a single person I’d rather have at the helm of this company for the all challenges this company (industry) has gone through. He understands business and has probably turned down a lot of offers to run less dynamic companies for more money, yet here he is.
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02-06-2023 | 06:01 AM
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02-06-2023 | 08:31 PM
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A ray of hope perhaps. I was informed I’d be starting in mid March. I was scheduled for early Feb. I also heard that on the ERJ side the training is delayed for at least a few months. This could of course change but just a heads up.
02-06-2023 | 08:59 PM
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02-07-2023 | 05:29 AM
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Hopefully us end of February people get a CRJ class date end of March
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