Hasn't that been said for years now? Or did I miss a sarcasm tag somewhere....

Not really sure how it's a disservice considering the upgrade gets shorter every month. Obviously at some point it will hit the bottom of the curve and creep back up, but trying to guesstimate that is futile. Right now someone who was hired 2 years and 10 months ago upgraded in 2 years and 10 months.

Yeah sarcasm. Was told 5 years ago the company had agreed to work on it and it was even part of a pay package we voted in. But then KB went bye bye and MT told SAPA that he didn't need to honor promises that KB made. That is part of the dedication to fairness in all that SkyWest does and respect for employees that they brag about on the anti-union page on SWOL.

Well since SkyWest was at 2 year upgrades when I got hired, then it must have stayed the same right? I guess we can say that for this month, SW is at 34 month upgrades. We will see what next month brings.

There aren't very many reserves in MSP and ORD.. If the 3 year pilots upgrading stay in MSP or ORD they probably won't sit reserve for very long..

There are hardly any reserves in the junior bases. If someone wants a west coast base they're going to sit reserve forever but the captains who take 3 year upgrades to MSP and ORD aren't sitting reserve for very long at all. There are only 15 reserve lines in MSP and ORD.

The people delaying upgrade who will upgrade senior to those 3 year pilots are probably delaying upgrade because they want a specific base, and that specific base probably isn't MSP or ORD.

There was also a 7 month gap in hiring in 2012-2013 which this bid award caught up to. If they keep upgrading 40 per month 3 years probably is pretty much the new standard. The 3 year upgrades aren't that many numbers junior to the 4 year upgrades that have been going on for over a year.

Skywest did not hire in the first half of 2013. There was a big gap, and then only classes of 20 a month later summer/early fall that here, into the Brasilia (may the Bro rest in peace). So for the time being, its not at all surprising to see the "Upgrade time" dropping below 3 years.

This is a good lesson in the industry: "Upgrade time" for a new hire is useless, stale data. Its like a day old donut, a day old METAR. When SkyWest hired me it was a "7 year upgrade"; the lost decade was in effect. My math says about a 2 and 3/4 year upgrade for my employee number.

What will it be for someone considering the job today? God only knows. They have been cranking an awful lot of people through there the last couple of years. Maybe it will go down a bit more, but I wouldn't at all be surprised if upgrade time began to climb again as the most Jr CA number starts to mix in with the multitudes of folks as the wheels really started turning in 2014/2015.

Did you read my post before responding? Yes, upgrades are fluid. Yes, it is a terrible idea to base your decision to go somewhere based on the current upgrade. I'm not really sure what point you are trying to make. Movement is good right now, but I guess we should be pessimistic about it.

From 2014 on they've pretty much been steady at 50+ new hires per month. Everyone knew the upgrades would fall to 3 years because of that 7 month gap in hiring, then slow hiring for most of 2013. It seems somewhat unlikely that the upgrade will drop too far under 3 years because the class sizes were consistently so large from 2014 and on. As you said this industry is totally unpredictable to a new hire though so whatever happens will probably surprise me.

I admit I was wrong on how fast we would hit 2013 hires.

Wow, pretty crazy this is even before the 50+ 175 deliveries begin. I must admit I didn't believe it, but the upgrade will dip way down when these airplanes start getting delivered at up to 6 a month.