Skywest v2.0
#9972
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Joined APC: Oct 2013
Position: The right seat
Posts: 257
And with 40+ more 175's coming in 2018, Chip best be hoping that hiring stays strong and attrition doesn't pick up.
With guys flying 95+ hours/mo at min days off, E-mails begging for people to pick up trips, and deteriorating moral; sounds like Chip has the perfect storm brewing. And this is the slow time of the year! Cant wait to see what summer is gonna look like.
#9973
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Joined APC: Apr 2010
Posts: 803
Cost is an issue because the return on investment is insufficient. People are aware of the dismal QOL. Why pour a 100K into flight training when you can spend half that and go into engineering and be home every night?
If it was a great occupation, flight schools would be bulging and SkyWest could be choosy on who they hire. There has been zero stop loss efforts which tells me either SkyWest has zero ideas or they have a brilliance that no one can forsee.
The sunami wave is still many miles away but it is still coming.
#9974
Where are you based? Which aircraft? I have seen posts from you for a while now, but the things you post make it seem like you are super junior. My money is on CRJ CA in DTW.
#9976
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Joined APC: Apr 2015
Posts: 104
I bid just over 50% CA in ORD. Upgraded recently because pairings are so bad in ORD that my a schedule wasn’t significantly different as an FO bidding <5%. Junior is all a relative term. I’m senior to significantly more than half the pilot group. The schedules in DTW don’t and haven’t ever affected me. Doesn’t change the fact that people coming here need to know what they will experience if they choose a quick upgrade. Also doesn’t make it right that West Coast bases enjoy decent staffing levels and all the 900 flying while those out east suffer. But hey, if you’re one of the top 200 people in the whole company, I bet you’re quite happy the way pairings are being created for you. Make some of those SLC pairings flow into minimum credit days through DTW for a couple months and flow DTW crews into the prime 900 flying SLC enjoys. Then you’ll see real uproar.
#9977
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Joined APC: Jun 2016
Posts: 131
LMAO @ all you spineless ninnies!! When the music stopped in 08, pilots got furloughed, stuck in the right seat, stuck on perma reserve for 7 years, and you crybaby little drama queens can't handle a crappy junior schedule for a year or two making almost twice what we did 15 years ago.
Whassa matter? Not enough safe space in your little RJ's?
Whassa matter? Not enough safe space in your little RJ's?
#9979
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Joined APC: Jun 2017
Posts: 27
LMAO @ all you spineless ninnies!! When the music stopped in 08, pilots got furloughed, stuck in the right seat, stuck on perma reserve for 7 years, and you crybaby little drama queens can't handle a crappy junior schedule for a year or two making almost twice what we did 15 years ago.
Whassa matter? Not enough safe space in your little RJ's?
Whassa matter? Not enough safe space in your little RJ's?
Either way 15 years at this company? Your either an idiot or part of the good ole boy club, either way your the problem with this company!
#9980
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Joined APC: Jul 2008
Posts: 4,205
LMAO @ all you spineless ninnies!! When the music stopped in 08, pilots got furloughed, stuck in the right seat, stuck on perma reserve for 7 years, and you crybaby little drama queens can't handle a crappy junior schedule for a year or two making almost twice what we did 15 years ago.
Whassa matter? Not enough safe space in your little RJ's?
Whassa matter? Not enough safe space in your little RJ's?
But the rest i agree with...
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