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#101
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Joined APC: Oct 2011
Position: Airplanes
Posts: 134
They are talking about the call that SAPA had with Shane included last week. He said they have a plan to shrink and a plan to grow and will act on one. The winner is going to be the plan to shrink. UA Is hellbent on getting rid of the 50 seat aircraft ASAP and this will help SkyWest return to its core value. But at the expense of pilot jobs in the next 3-5 years.
#105
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Joined APC: Jul 2008
Posts: 4,203
Come to SKW. SFO will be easy to get. Don't let the negitive guys get you down. Were hiring 100 a month (well trying to). There is always 2 plans. Grow and shrink. Been that for a long time. But we always seem to go with the grow option...
#106
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Joined APC: Oct 2011
Position: Airplanes
Posts: 134
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"On the express side, we want to replace many of the 50-seat aircraft in our fleet today. To do this in a disciplined manner, we are continuing to explore opportunities in the used aircraft market (737,A320) to replace these aircraft without appreciably increasing our capital expenditures. In addition to taking advantage of the used aircraft market, we are making investments in our existing fleet to extend the useful life and better utilize the assets that we have, as demonstrated by our recent decision to extend the life of some of our 767- 300s.
#108
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Joined APC: Apr 2014
Position: RJ right-seat warmer
Posts: 632
1) Long sim delays mean that guys are getting paid (admittedly, almost nothing) to sit around for up to 8 weeks between training sessions
2) Looking at the reserve utilization for January, it's apparent that even the most junior reserves are hardly flying. I couldn't find anyone in SFO on reserve in the RJ who flew more than 12 hours in January (not counting IOE/OOE trips and trips they voluntarily picked up on their days off.) Heck, I even volunteered for ready reserve yesterday and today (since I'm sitting AM reserve anyways) and was told I'm not needed.
Sure, there's attrition, but it's not 100/month. If you include upgrades and resignations, SKW is losing maybe 30-40 FOs per month.
Perhaps all the growth will be on the ERJ side. And perhaps this reserve inactivity is due to the fact that the holiday flying season is over, and the bat guano will hit the air conditioner in the summertime. But from my very uninformed and limited perspective, we have way more FOs than we know what to do with...
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