**HEADLINE SKYWEST to fly USAir RJs***

[p.b.]

I guess I don't get it. If I get hired off the street to fly for TSA and I could hold captain on the jet because I have the experience, I would have to wait. But the guy being hired next to me who is furloughed from USAIR gets to be a captain right away?

That sounds like a move that is going to cause quite a bit of bad blood within the pilot group.

Please explain if I don't have it right.

 

[BoredToDeath]

Surfnole

I must say, you all work in one crazy industry (airlines). A guy can go from being in charge of one of the largest airliners in the world to entry level wages and being subordinate to a 25 year old.

It is a crazy industry but age has nothing to do with it. I'm a 31 year old underpaid F.O. But some of the 25 year old Capts. I fly with are just as good as some of the old guys I've flown with. I made different career decisions than others so this is where I stand now, no regreats.

It doesn't make any sense.

You're right, and if history has taught us anything, in the future it won't make any sense again.

I am curious.

Curiousity killed the cat!

How did it get this way?

Does this have its roots in the railroad or shipping industry?

That I have no idea about, but I will say this. The people in charge ie: Wolfe, didn't get rich by being stupid. I'd be loaded if being stupid was the way to go. The people in charge love the fact that all the pilot groups can't stand each other, it assures them that the pilots will never have any power to stand up for themselves. The WO's (PDT, ALG, PSA) are pissed cause we'll never get jets. Mainlines pissed cause very soon there will be a total of 1350 of them on the street with no place to go until one of the contract carriers ends up chocking on this Jets 4 Jobs garbage that mainline is trying shove down everyones throats. And when that happens US Airways will become the CONTRACT CARRIER OF CHOICE

If a captain in the merchant marines loses his job because of company bankruptcy, does he start all over as a deck hand elsewhere?

Don't have a clue! Don't want to know!

I guess I don't get it. If I get hired off the street to fly for TSA and I could hold captain on the jet because I have the experience, I would have to wait. But the guy being hired next to me who is furloughed from USAIR gets to be a captain right away?

That sounds like a move that is going to cause quite a bit of bad blood within the pilot group.

I'll put it to ya like this. commuting has not been fun lately. Well it's never been fun but now its getting down right nasty.

"Take care of yourselves, and eachother"- Jerry Springer

 

[atpcliff]

USAir filling Host Airline Seats

Hi!

To answer about the USAir pilot filling a Capt's seat:

As far as I understand, based on what our MEC and Co. have said:

50% (or a minimum of 4 pilots) of the pilot manning per plane will be OFFERED to USAir pilots. The senior ones would get a Capt seat, the junior ones an FO seat. The other seats would go to the host airline. If any of the 4/50% seats go unfilled by USAir (it's estimated that only about 50% of their elligible pilots will accept RJ seats), then they'll also be filled by the host airline.

The USAir pilots are locked into those seats. If a USAir Capt leaves, their seat will 1st be offered to an elligible USAir FO. If they turn it down, a host airline pilot will fill it. If they take it, a host airline pilot will fill their FO seat.

According to our last Co. info, these USAir pilots will come in at the bottom of the seniority list of those pilots currently flying, so, we presume, ahead of the furloughees and poolies. They will have both a host airline and a USAir seniority number. The USAir pilots have offered to have the host airline pilots receive 50% of future USAir new pilot hiring slots (if/when USAir hires again).

They said if we accept it, a late summer/fall delivery of the 1st USAir jets.

Interesting...

Cliff

 

[p.b.]

That sounds like a terrible deal for the "host" airline. If that goes to a vote, I hope the pilots turn it down.

If TSA buys the jets they should have the choice about who they put in the seats.

Here's my next question:
If TSA turns down the pilot deal do they lose the contract with usairways?

It seems that any of these contract companies could easily man the jets without making a deal to specifically hire the furloughed US pilots.

 

[Brakillya]

SkyWest pilots turned down the US Air deal, so it's a dead issue here.

 

[JetProp]

Good job guys...is SKW hiring by chance?

 

[Andy Neill]

SkyWest has about 70 in the pool with classes scheduled 27 March and every 4 weeks thereafter of 20-30 each. I heard interviews will be resuming in the March-June timeframe.