SkyWest: Training Delays?
01-23-2023, 01:37 PM
#41
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Originally Posted by astray
Emailed my recruiter and he said everything's still scheduled, at least for April/May classes. Feb/March classes be will rescheduled behind those, not sure how true that is.
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01-23-2023, 01:49 PM
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Originally Posted by WhatsV2
No offense but that sounds exactly like what a recruiter would say to keep you from jumping ship haha
01-23-2023, 02:57 PM
#43
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Originally Posted by WhatsV2
Have a buddy that just went through indoc in SLC. He says the rumor around there is classes won’t resume until June/July. Too many FOs and they are proactively booking the future sim slots for the upgrade classes (original delay for ground is because company wants ground + sim with very little delay in between). Rumors can just be rumors but…….that sucks
They’ll most likely have SIMS sitting idle. This has everything to do with Captain staffing. That won’t improve anytime soon. It will probably get worse before it gets better. I think they won’t hire anyone for a year just like what’s going on at Republic and the AA WO’s. I think that rumor is downplaying the situation. I’d bet they don’t run new hire classes for a while.
01-23-2023, 04:17 PM
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Originally Posted by LAXtoDEN
SkyWest upgraded every eligible FO to CA before the new year. They’ll be lucky to have north of 40 upgrades a month, the ground school can handle closer to few hundred trainees a month from what I remember.
They’ll most likely have SIMS sitting idle. This has everything to do with Captain staffing. That won’t improve anytime soon. It will probably get worse before it gets better. I think they won’t hire anyone for a year just like what’s going on at Republic and the AA WO’s. I think that rumor is downplaying the situation. I’d bet they don’t run new hire classes for a while.
They’ll most likely have SIMS sitting idle. This has everything to do with Captain staffing. That won’t improve anytime soon. It will probably get worse before it gets better. I think they won’t hire anyone for a year just like what’s going on at Republic and the AA WO’s. I think that rumor is downplaying the situation. I’d bet they don’t run new hire classes for a while.
01-23-2023, 06:00 PM
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Originally Posted by amcnd
Newhire class started to day half CRJ half ERJ…
I’d bet the answers to those questions are concerning. Anyone who thinks they’re delaying new hire class “TBT” for “upgrades” is freaking delusional.
When I was working at SkyWest they were pounding 200 initial and 200 upgrade pilots a month through training like it was nothing. You and I both know there’s no SIM availability issue for incoming new hires.
Last edited by LAXtoDEN; 01-23-2023 at 06:11 PM.
01-23-2023, 06:20 PM
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Originally Posted by amcnd
Dude 50~ new hires started today.. nothing else to say.. not sure what your looking for…
01-23-2023, 06:46 PM
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Originally Posted by LAXtoDEN
Any chance you can provide some answers to my questions? You’re still at SkyWest, all those questions I asked can be answered. What’s the attrition with the gone list look like? What’s the seniority list look like? How many upgrade awards for February? Why are they canceling all New hire class dates starting in February?
upgrades = as many that are qualified. Newhire classes not clx’ed as far as anyone knows, but size of classes smaller do to the “imbalance”. And trying to shrink the wait between indoc/systems.. It’s all captain driven.. attrition has slowed a little. Ask again on Feb 1st and will see.. everything is subject to change.. as we have seen the last 6 months.. be toxic all you want. Every airline is going through teething pains… SkyWest included..
Last edited by amcnd; 01-23-2023 at 07:00 PM.
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