ClickClickBoom

The pass rate was high because the experience standards for initial hiring were higher. Now that the bar wasn't just lowered, it, was thrown away, expect training failures to increase. I thought the AQP this year was more like a PC than anything else. Heard that the CRJ training manager "thought, the training was too easy" Captains were sent recently emails reminding us to do Evals on F/O's. In years past SKYW training built the plane from the inside out. So yeah come on over to Skywest and see if you are good enough to not collect pink slips and a free ride home.....
My bet is the 200 will be separated from the other variants and will become the "new" EMB120, with magic wire training and PC style AQP training. Expect also, the training/standards guys will be also evaluating attitude as well, and as, at-will employees your services can be terminated at any time. Probationary releases will increase and occur most likely at the probationary release interview, which is usually at the 1 year anniversary. So yeah, getting hired is just the start.

irishpilot17

That $7500 sign on bonus is only for pilots who come to SkyWest already typed and current (CL-65). The vast majority of incoming FOs do not have the CL-65 type and are not eligible for that bonus.

ClickClickBoom

Remember one thing 1/2 of the seniority list are Captains and 10-20% of the F/O list are soon to be Captains, so yeah it makes sense to give raises to the pilots who will not receive them. The ignorance and short sighted views like this, is the reason that the industry plays pilots like fiddles at a hoedown. Oh yeah those "multiple opportunitys to leave" were opportunities for multiple furloughs, so yeah keep on resenting the senior guys, see how that works for you.
P.S. Many of us spent more than half a decade in the right seat, with no upgrade on the horizon, so KMA.

Squallrider

I expect we will see a massive increase in 1st year pay, slight increases for 2 and 3rd years (maybe). The rest of us will probably get a marginal increase (1% I would guess) and maybe a increase in per diem. Its pretty much whatever they can do to attract new hires. Our upgrade time is 4 years and dropping. I don't think any regional cares to sustain the top of the seniority list, because they will either leave to mainline (and hopefully be replaced by a lower earning captain/FO combo) or they are committed to the company for life and wont leave regardless of what happens to them. We are attracting large numbers new hires as is (theres over 150 FOs in TRG).

I don't know where CCB gets his info but my experience has always been that the instructors work hard to make everyone pass. We no longer rebuild the plane from the ground up, instead focus has shifted towards what is controllable in the aircraft. Had a PC with FAA and he reiterated this philosophy. I think regardless of the company anyone is willing to work with people to pass because you don't want to be a blemish on someones career, of course you also don't want to be the instructor thats "student" puts one in the turf.

Tandem46

Dramatic increase????

First Officer Years 2-8 pay rates will increase
▫ $0.50 on May 1, 2015
▫ $0.50 on January 1, 2017

What a joke!!!!!

Squallrider

Many senior people also only spent 6 months in the right seat, by senior I mean 10 year odd captains. I agree though you can't blame the senior guys for staying, it gets pretty good when you're senior to do what you want. There were and continue to be opportunities to leave but no one can use a crystal ball to figure out if its a good decision to stay or go. Personally I feel that if you can get to mainline (especially now with the hiring wave) your job security long term will go up. SkyWest is a great company, but so was Eagle (the real one), Comair and Expressjet, but the way the regional industry cycles its always a race to the bottom and a cycle where one company is great, gets senior, goes crap, cuts costs dramatically and rebounds to the top.

Westerner

No doubt!
It took 10 months to come up with that gem?

Slatsnflaps

Could someone post the 401k and per diem increase?

irishpilot17

Company match for 401(k) will increase by 1% on January 1, 2016


Per diem
▫ $1.85 (5 cent increase on May 1, 2015)
▫ $1.90 (5 cent increase on January 1, 2017)


• Pilots will participate in a new profit sharing program that is separate from Operational Performance Rewards and Financial Performance Rewards.
• 6% of the SkyWest Airlines’ annual net income will be distributed to the pilots and will be paid out the February following each applicable annual earnings period (payout to coincide with the Q4 SkyWest, Inc. earnings call).

rickair7777

"They"? Ah yes, the mythical "they", rolled out as a prop any time nebulous and vague arguments fall short

Yes there are people (with previous 121 time) who upgraded in a year (or even less on the Bro). But that was a very small bubble in about the 2005-2006 hire range...the older folks often spent many years in the right seat (of a bro or metro) and everybody since has had at least a four-year wait.

Also...don't count the bro "upgrades" in this context, because the small extra pay relative to jet FO was not worth the QOL hit. It only made sense of you needed TPIC.