Too many crusty slc guys + sapa hypnotizing new hires = no union. Just ask the ground instructors, they love OO.
Our only hope is to gtfo, let the new hires figure out this dumpster fire out themselves.

Then for their sake they better hope that when a vote does take place, they have classes full of all impressionable young minds and not experienced people from a union regional via soft landing 2.0.
To answer the next inevitable question:
Why would they leave their union regional to Skywest if they loved it so much?
Imagine union regional X goes under. Disgruntled but experienced pilots have many options of other regionals to go to. Reluctantly they choose Skywest, not because they want to come here (they really would rather have a union, and possibly also loathe Inc already) but because they can pick up where they left off at 8 years on the pay scale and a quick upgrade.

There is more to this story, SkyW gives new hires plenty of opportunities. The 3 strike rule, plenty of extra sim time, etc. the actual time of the sim is no excuse. I and plenty of others have done the midnight to 4am slot and made it through. If he couldn't handle flying late at night he's not cut out for this job.

I actually bid for the 4am stuff and I like it.

No FAA...

Also SKW seemed to give the people with a good attitude a lot of "do overs." Bad attitude, not so much...


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Definitely more to the story.

To you that is early morning, to me that is late at night.

I had the 8 pm - 2 am shift for new hire sims and it was pretty chill.

Most of the guys that I have flown with that came from a union carrier want nothing more to do with a union. Most of the most vocal union supporters I have seen are those who, you might say, have other issues and I'll just leave it at that.

What you need to realize is that just like on this forum you're only receiving a small sampling. And I hope that you're not naive enough to believe that this is how all union pilots feel? What you're hearing is coming from disgruntled X union pilots. I also would venture to say there are many who are dissatisfied with the recent events at the Mighty Skywest. Does that mean everyone at Skywest though? Probably not.