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Is offline 12-08-2016 07:31 PM


Originally Posted by Turbosina (Post 2259122)
When I interviewed in April 2014, upgrade time was 8 years. Everyone said "If you go to SKW be prepared to be an FO forever."

With all the guys that have been hired since the hiring department opened the floodgates in late 2013...there is either gonna have to be some incredible attrition, or we're gonna have to find a lot more flying, for this less-than-2 year upgrade train to continue rolling. We've hired A LOT of people over the past 36 months; the list has grown by ~800 pilots in the past 2 years. All I'm saying is, if I were a new hire now, I would not look at our 20-month upgrade and expect I'm gonna get that.

The upgrade could go well below 20 months.

Turbosina 12-08-2016 08:46 PM


Originally Posted by Is offline (Post 2259128)
The upgrade could go well below 20 months.

Sure it could. Or mainline hiring could be nowhere near as significant as projected for 2017, meaning more Skywest guys are stuck in their seats, meaning....back to 8 year upgrades for guys hired now.

Unless we win a bunch of additional flying, of course. But who from?

Jvw700 12-08-2016 09:17 PM


Originally Posted by Turbosina (Post 2259167)
Sure it could. Or mainline hiring could be nowhere near as significant as projected for 2017, meaning more Skywest guys are stuck in their seats, meaning....back to 8 year upgrades for guys hired now.

Unless we win a bunch of additional flying, of course. But who from?

Yours is more like 10-15 years since you'll be operating the last 200 flight out of SFO ;)

WesternSkies 12-08-2016 09:23 PM

But he'll DH home on a bro, AMIRITE!!!

Jvw700 12-08-2016 09:27 PM


Originally Posted by WesternSkies (Post 2259191)
But he'll DH home on a bro, AMIRITE!!!

Hahaha yeah...

criticalaoa 12-08-2016 09:32 PM

Whats the current upgrade at Envoy?

Jvw700 12-08-2016 09:37 PM


Originally Posted by criticalaoa (Post 2259199)
Whats the current upgrade at Envoy?

Shouldn't you be studying for that Indoc test coming up? What you doin up at 12:30 Irving time?!

criticalaoa 12-08-2016 09:48 PM


Originally Posted by Jvw700 (Post 2259201)
Shouldn't you be studying for that Indoc test coming up? What you doin up at 12:30 Irving time?!

Ok... You been coming after me pretty hard tonight. lol

hawk21 12-09-2016 05:29 AM


Originally Posted by criticalaoa (Post 2259199)
Whats the current upgrade at Envoy?

Ask one of the numerous Envoy threads.

Squallrider 12-09-2016 05:35 AM


Originally Posted by criticalaoa (Post 2259199)
Whats the current upgrade at Envoy?

Strange to ask that in the Skywest thread lol...I believe it's around 8 years last i heard


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