This is a joke right? Nobody seriously believes this will be adopted industry wide (outside of the regionals) do they?

I'll eat my words once this is common practice at the majors. But until then this is just a scheme for regionals to poach from other regionals. Nothing more than another giveaway of leverage that only benefits new hires, and a small sub-group of pilots already on property.

Where is the reward for the pilots who were smart and did their research and came to SkyWest FIRST?!?! as opposed to rewarding the regional hoppers who got burned chasing the quick upgrade.

SWOL>My Stuff>Leave of Absence

Pretty painless process.

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Not everyone that started at another regional is a hopper chasing a quick upgrade. And on top of that, some that take advantage of this may have been burned by Skywest to begin with.

Use FMLA for something like that. That way it can't count against your reliability or anything else.

They may not be feeling it severely yet but they will. Every other regional is, and Skywest is not immune to it. Unless SAPA keeps giving them a life raft.
We are hiring at bare minimums. Many times new hires need to log their sim time just to qualify.
If the 1500 rule isn't changed and if we wouldn't give them things like soft landing 2.0 and part time pilots, Skywest would soon be noticing it in the hiring department.
I guess the only thing I like about the new pay package is that it is so bad that it might cause people not to come here.

Yes. Granted. No argument on that. However my larger point still stands. The company kool-aid pedallers pushing this the hardest, sell it as some monumental paradigm shift in the airline industry. That's a load of BS

If you are referring to ASA/XJET. I have absolutely no problem with that whatsoever. Hell, although I don't claim to be an expert on SLIs, I'm all in favor of merging the lists completely. Should have been done long ago.

Must be hedging their bets.

https://www.afap.org.au/pilot-jobs/p...rst%20Officers

I think it's true that we do lose a few candidates that would be here, if the pay was higher. But, that being said, they're doing a good job still hiring. Money hasn't been the big driving factor for people to come here. If we can fill classes on $36.50/hr just fine, we won't have problems at $37.25/hr. We all know why people come here. QOL, bases, and historic stability.

What QOL?

The good reputation is only gonna last so long. This place has changed tremendously and soon they will all know.

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