My seat cheeks are quivering in anticipation!

Tell me the 900 light is really going to happen!

Pass the lube....

In April the top 24 gone pilots had +10Yrs, of that group 6 were +15yrs.

@ ten YOS you'd be approx in the top 30% company wide.

True.
IMO though in such a hiring market the status quo will put CC/TG/MT jobs in jeopardy by the people who own the company...wall st.
This summer will be interesting.
Right now it doesn’t matter who is in SAPA (minus ZM). Company will need to save the company.

The question, having always been in an environment where the supply of well qualified applicants really exceeded the demand,is this; are ANY of the regional managements going to be able to get past their denial that demand is now exceeding supply? Or at least get past that denial before they lose the people they need to other managements that understood that new realty sooner.

Additional AS 175 deliveries
 

I know that originally when they made the announcement about SkyWest getting an addition 20 e175s for AS that they said the delivery would be slow. But it’s definitely really slow. It’s been almost 2 and half months since we have seen a delivery. QX just announced today that they have taken delivery of the first of 15 e175s for the year of 2018. Still quiet over here at OO. We were “supposed” to have 5 175s come to PDX by the end of the summer. Any word on what’s happening with the AS deliveries? Are we still on track?

Envoy is wishing they didn’t push 1,500 pilots out the door in 2014.

All will be delivered by the end of the year.. just as planed.. AS planes have always been a easy delivery schedule... DL has always been a very aggressive delivery schedule...

Skywest has always avoided having a pilots union because they have paid market rate for pilots and treated the pilots well. They were careful who they hired to avoid conflicts.

When they locked in the pilots to subpar pay last year it assures them high profits for the next 4+ years. Endeavor and the others are starting to pass Skywest by large amounts and it will get worse as other contracts come up. New pilots will go where the money is when there is such a difference.

Without enough incoming pilots, Skywest will shrink as needed.

With low pay, negative growth coming soon, I don't see Skywest being able to stop a Union push. I hate to say that. Maybe not soon, but in 2 years, yes. Two years after that a contract, right about the time the current agreement ends.

From what I have heard from various elements within middle management is that the company's top management will make no effort to persuade anybody to stay. In fact they wish there was more movement, especially the higher seniority group. (duh!) And as quoted, I feel our managment has their heads in the sand (or maybe somewhere else) in denial about the stemming loss of personnel, the demand is exceeding the supply. And it's not just pilots, but especially true with mechanics and dispatchers too.

I have been talking with more and more guys with 10, 15, 20 years plus like myself that are dusting off their logbooks and updating their resumes. The wonderful lady in records says she receives around 10 to 15 requests a week from individuals for pilot flight time records.

The exodus from here will follow the curve from the majors retirement profile, if not greater. I predict the CFI that is coming to SkyWest today will be bypassing the regional product all together and go right to the ULCC's within 2 to 3 years.

And if you think about it SkyWest is really just maybe one tier up from Great Lakes. Per their article in the Denver Post, their death was primarily attributed to the inability to attract and retain pilots, thus numerous cancellations.

The time to leave is now.

After reading T.T.’s ‘From the Top’ I’m reassured! 100 “new” airplanes in the last 18 months! Wow!!!

I flew a “new” one not too long ago something something something XJ. Must have come “new” from the factory with no fuel senders in the left wing! Nice!

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