Skywest MRJ

[777forever]

USAirways Express flying outta PHX (Skywest) and CLT (ASA/Expressjet).

There won't be a US Airways in 2017...

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[Oakum_Boy]

Why would they dangle it in front of you ?? Who cares what they fly if it doesn't pay well. Let Skywest have it they don't mind making less on bigger aircraft.

SkyPest will essentially get what we negotiate. They tell us we can get some of the new shiny jets if we agree to "competitive" rates. We sign off on shoddy rates, SkyPest gets same or less, airframes go to SkyPest anyway.

Like anyone in the GO understands how to run a jet like that anyway. First thing they'll do is dent the F out of the wing and tear up the interior trim by giving the high IQ society flight attendants practice on the emergency exits....ala the -700. Next, play find the mice in the plane. Third, turn the cockpit into a dust and bacteria farm. Fourth, sell the planes to unsuspecting airlines who find corrosion and stress fractures we never noticed.

 

[PBRstreetgang]

Southwestern SKYW Kabuki theater, the brain trust throws this out on the table thinking that SKYW Inc pilots will stay for 5 years so they can fly a MRJ, from ORD to SAT vs a 757 to OGG. This company has recruited for the HDQ operation from the local drooling academy, they are delivered to the office every morning in a short bus, and they wear styrofoam hats with dinosaur stickers on them.
Mouth breathers.....

 

[WalterSobchak]

This company has recruited for the HDQ operation from the local drooling academy, they are delivered to the office every morning in a short bus, and they wear styrofoam hats with dinosaur stickers on them.
Mouth breathers.....

I love knowing that I don't have to deal with this moron anymore.

 

[homerjdispatch]

I love knowing that I don't have to deal with this moron anymore.

We are so envious of you... And not because of pay.. Because of above statement!!!!

 

[Freebrd]

There won't be a US Airways in 2017...

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omg! another astute prediction from GL, uh I mean 777. where do you come up with this shet man!

 

[JustaNumber]

Replacing old, worn out airframes. Nothing to see here, keep moving folks.

...as opposed to not replacing old, worn out airframes on their way to the desert. That's a little something to see...

 

[Jon Rivoli]

Think about this, even if Obama is reelected, the first delivery won't be until after he leaves office. Point being, a meteor might destroy the planet before anyone sees one of these.

When you see it sitting on the ramp, then it's real. 2017 is so far in the future it doesn't even matter. Basically, SkyWest intends to eventually replace aging aircraft. That's not news.

 

[Jon Rivoli]

...as opposed to not replacing old, worn out airframes on their way to the desert. That's a little something to see...

A good point. But, with Delta's TA and the UniCal still in negotiations there will be bigger happenings in the Regional world before any of these airplanes fly. Something like 218 50 seaters will be leaving the Delta connection network, Pinnacle is in Bankruptcy, Republic is struggling and Comair is a ghost of it's former self. The Delta connection world will likely get bloody next year.

I'll worry about today now and I'm not even going to think about 2017 or MRJ's. When I hired on at SkyWest, we flow almost all Brazilias and only had eleven jets, you didn't expect to see your third anniversary here before you were off to the Major of your choice.

Here's a mind trip, a SkyWest new hire from 2000 when compared to a United new hire in 2000 would have earned about $250,000 more and the United pilot has been furloughed twice.

You just don't know.

 

[PBRstreetgang]

I love knowing that I don't have to deal with this moron anymore.

The short bus just stops at a different location, you want another sticker for your styrofoam helmet?

Dispatchers, the Flight Engineers of the new millennium.
Your relevance to flight operations is diminishing a daily basis. Don't worry you will still be able to come to F/I and be a voyeur.

 

[Freebrd]

why do we even have dispatchers, useless bunch, wish the FAA would eliminate them, save a bunch of money, under 135 we basically dispatched ourselves in the past (got our own wx, ordered our fuel, filed flt plans if needed etc etc), think of the cost savings if the FAA eliminated them, this is 2012 man, pilots can do their own dispatching!

 

[JettBoii]

Who cares. So fayetnam gets a fancy oversized RJ. It will still be flown to the same mediocre out stations. You will still get a regional wage. You will still fly seven legs a day with reduced rest overnights. They will be ordered stripped down; 1 FMS, No VNAV, No auto throttles, no fancy electric seats, no HUD....etc. They will soon turn into dirty airplanes that will be a mx nightmare until all the bugs get worked out. Etc. man I'm negative.

 

[WalterSobchak]

The short bus just stops at a different location, you want another sticker for your styrofoam helmet?

Dispatchers, the Flight Engineers of the new millennium.
Your relevance to flight operations is diminishing a daily basis. Don't worry you will still be able to come to F/I and be a voyeur.

Ooooo, pretty please...I like stickers and dinosaurs!

You and I tend to agree about OO mismanagement and the fact that employees accept more B.S. than they should. However, regardless of the amount of KoolAid they may drink, crapping all over your fellow employees is more of a sign of someone who loathes himself. It's OK, little buddy. I know you're a little upset that your career didn't quite go "as planned". However, just because you're a little irked with your station in life doesn't mean you've got to drag everyone down to your level of misery. I'm sorry you never made it to the big leagues like you wanted.

I'll be sure to have a beer for you while sitting out on my porch. The porch I sit out on before I sleep in my own bed. The bed in the new, freakin' sweet home I get to come home to from work every day. The job that, at least at the moment, values my skills enough to reward my workgroup with a payscale that likely rivals yours and a significantly more generous benefits than you currently enjoy. I'm happy with what I've got, as do most of the good folks down in SGU. You should try it sometime.

If my relevance diminishes in this industry, such is life. It would probably be at the hands of those we serve, the pilots, anyhow. Maybe our work would actually be appreciated once we were gone. Seeing that the rest of the world that currently does not utilize the skills and knowledge of dispatchers the way we do here in the States are beginning to add the position despite not being required to (see: Air France), I have a hard time believing we'll be going away within my lifetime. That said, if it all goes south, I actually have a skillset that is useful in the real world (and plenty of options from my previous career); my eggs are not all in one basket.

Now, run along and pout somewhere else.

Oh, by the way, ever wonder why you have to swap aircraft so much? There may he a reason for that, buddy...you're not as anonymous as you think.

 

[crazy8]

why do we even have dispatchers, useless bunch, wish the FAA would eliminate them, save a bunch of money, under 135 we basically dispatched ourselves in the past (got our own wx, ordered our fuel, filed flt plans if needed etc etc), think of the cost savings if the FAA eliminated them, this is 2012 man, pilots can do their own dispatching!

Please tell me you're joking. We do enough free work for our companies as it is. If they want to pay us a dispatchers salary on top of what we do now, then fine. Otherwise, I'm fine with printing paperwork. Let the dispatchers do their job.

 

[Freebrd]

Do their job? He'll man, the computer program does all the work. Just give access to a terminal and we can request/print he damn release. We can even request & print it out on that expensive SH paper on the planes! See so easy even a caveman can do it, or even 777!