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pilotlbs said:
Then why did you switch? Doesn't sound like you have room to complain if you made the decision. Sounds like you've had it a little too good for too long at the regionals. Lucky....
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I switched because the last carrier was pretty much a dead end, no progression. I just get tired of hearing that Skywest is great, when its middle of the road amongst the regionals with regard to employee treatment.
 
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bmpilot2003 said:
I switched because the last carrier was pretty dead end, no progression. I just get tired of hearing that Skywest is great, when its pretty much middle of the road amongst the regionals.
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How many regionals have you worked for? If it was ASA then SkyWest I don't see why you're complaining, go work the "below the middle" of regionals and see you feel about SkyWest after that. Another example of the grass is greener.
 
capt. megadeth said:
And why the f*** would any pilot at Skywest give a rat's a$$ what you think of them? This isn't high school. Get over yourself.
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Dude go back to the Cargo section. If SKW was taking some of UPS's routes your tune would change. The only reason you don't feel the same way as most around here is because you are led around by your Ball$ which your girlfriend has secured in her purse.

You SKW sheeple
 
Isn't ACV a OO station? When I worked in ROA we had a list of all of the flight crew (for all companies) employees and their numbers and they had the stations #. They would call in we would list them and tell them which flights to get on. Also something about UA boarding of NRSA on express flights, first comes any employee working for the operator of the flight in order of seniority and then all other UA and UAX employees in order of check-in. UA's system allows for 24 hours prior check in. You may not like talking with the staff at the station but it could be your best hope of getting where you need to go.

As for the AA guy he only got a look at what the airline can sell. For instance if you have 9's in all classes then it a pretty good bet. If you see Y7 and then it gets smaller as you go throught the different classes then you may need to worry. He only knew that there were seats to sell and out of SFO i will bet there is a horrible oversell factor. So get to know the agents they will be your best asset!
 
bmpilot2003,

welcome to SkyWest. sounds like in your short time here you already have it all figured out.

have you volunteered for the ALPA drive yet? you'd fit right in.
 
cwe84 said:
For instance if you have 9's in all classes then it a pretty good bet. If you see Y7 and then it gets smaller as you go throught the different classes then you may need to worry. He only knew that there were seats to sell and out of SFO i will bet there is a horrible oversell factor. So get to know the agents they will be your best asset!
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If you want to attempt to go this route...you can check out SeatCounter.com
 
SkyNation said:
have you volunteered for the ALPA drive yet? you'd fit right in.
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Why? Because he doesn't believe all the sunshine-and-flowers nonsense that people like you espouse on here? All he's doing is calling a spade a spade based on his experience. He's not bashing Skywest, he's simply saying its not the end-all-be-all some make it out to be.
 
Speaking of Alpa drive, what's going on with that I haven't heard anything new lately?
 
bmpilot2003 said:
If Skywest is the best why are we getting the SHAFT when trying to commute by not being able to check loads. Ill bet you what is happening is that management is just trying to discourage commuting. Wouldnt surprise me if this was the case with all the problems in denver the company had with commuting employees.
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Getting the shaft because you can't check loads. My friend, you are a tool. You've been here for a month and you have it all figured out, huh? I've commuted in the past, I was never encouraged or discouraged in reguards to commuting. As far as coming here from another airline, feel free to go back to where you came from. Either you made a stupid decision to come here and now you regret it, or you came here because their were better/more opportunities for you at SkyWest yet your pissy about the little differences between your new company and your old company. Either way, your never going to be happy no matter where you work, so you might as well make another lateral move to improve your situation.

Where did you work before you worked at SkyWest?
 
Skaff said:
Getting the shaft because you can't check loads. My friend, you are a tool. You've been here for a month and you have it all figured out, huh? I've commuted in the past, I was never encouraged or discouraged in reguards to commuting. As far as coming here from another airline, feel free to go back to where you came from. Either you made a stupid decision to come here and now you regret it, or you came here because their were better/more opportunities for you at SkyWest yet your pissy about the little differences between your new company and your old company. Either way, your never going to be happy no matter where you work, so you might as well make another lateral move to improve your situation.

Where did you work before you worked at SkyWest?
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Yeah... been here month... actually im coming up on three years. Guess what in those three years NOTHING has gotten better, it hasnt even stayed the same! Its gotten WORSE! I didnt say it was bad here! Its ok here, but it is definitely not GREAT. By the way why are you calling me names? Im glad Skywest hired such a great person like you who skips debate and goes right to name calling. Its people like you that make skywest great HUH?
 
cwe84 said:
As for the AA guy he only got a look at what the airline can sell. For instance if you have 9's in all classes then it a pretty good bet. If you see Y7 and then it gets smaller as you go throught the different classes then you may need to worry. He only knew that there were seats to sell and out of SFO i will bet there is a horrible oversell factor. So get to know the agents they will be your best asset!
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This guy has it dead on, that AA guy had not much of a better idea than you did if he was looking in sabre. Sabre will only show actual listings for the airline you work for. For OAL or other airlines it shows numbers of tickets available for sale in each fare class. For example there may only be 3 seats actually open but sabre may list 7 under each fare class making it look like there are lots of seats available. The only thing it will tell that AA guy for sure if is every fare class has a 0, this means the flight is already overbooked by the maximum allowable number of over sold tickets that can be sold for that flight.
 
Although I am not 100% sure, I think UAX carriers have to pay a fee to UAL to get Skynet. I don't underrstand why. It just seems like UAL doesn't understand that these are their passengers that you are carrying. Why would they charge their own express carriers for something like that?

I worked for Air Wisconsin for seven years, when they were a United Express carrier. It wasn't until the very last year of their relationship with United that we got Skynet. Prior to that point we were still working off of the old 1960's Apollo sets.
 
Look, conversation over. This has already been resolved. SkyWestOnline has the ability to tell you the full load factors for any flight any day on ANY UAL or DAL flights. Case closed. Thread closed. Have a good night!
 
bmpilot2003 said:
Yeah... been here month... actually im coming up on three years. Guess what in those three years NOTHING has gotten better, it hasnt even stayed the same! Its gotten WORSE! I didnt say it was bad here! Its ok here, but it is definitely not GREAT. By the way why are you calling me names? Im glad Skywest hired such a great person like you who skips debate and goes right to name calling. Its people like you that make skywest great HUH?
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Where did you work before Skywest?
 
XPOO said:
Look, conversation over. This has already been resolved. SkyWestOnline has the ability to tell you the full load factors for any flight any day on ANY UAL or DAL flights. Case closed. Thread closed. Have a good night!
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The only time you can see loads is if you are scheduled to fly the flight. Other than that i know of no other way to see loads, and if you are not working you cannot see the load factors for particular flights.
 
XPOO said:
Look, conversation over. This has already been resolved. SkyWestOnline has the ability to tell you the full load factors for any flight any day on ANY UAL or DAL flights. Case closed. Thread closed. Have a good night!
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Please explain how to do this.

thanks
 
bmpilot2003 said:
The only time you can see loads is if you are scheduled to fly the flight. Other than that i know of no other way to see loads, and if you are not working you cannot see the load factors for particular flights.
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Who did you fly for before?
 
AWACO said:
Please explain how to do this.

thanks
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This question was posted AND answered recently (today) in the SkyWestOnline I-Share forum.

Log into SkyWestonline
-- Travel Center
---- Check Flights

enter travel paramaters and click View.

The first column is a clickable button that pops up the passenger load status.
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Maybe I'm retarded, but I don't have a "Check Flights" link under "Travel Center"....
 

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