Skywest, Expressjet and SLC flying

[Flip]

A lot of us non-SLC based SkyWest pilots get a weird vibe when we're in SLC too. It may not be that you're Express Jet, it may just be that you're not one of the chosen few.

You hit one nail on the head.

 

[kj6991]

Before I get negative I'll say this :As an XJT employee, I have no ill will towards any Skywest employees. All of the pilot's and FA's I've dealt with have been really cool. They seem like a good company in general.
With that said, I've heard that a select few Skywest employees have proclaimed their bitterness towards XJT since we are doing SLC flying for Delta. I seem to sense it with some (not all) of the SLC rampers (they may even be Delta employees). If that is the case, I think it's real funny that Skywest employees could be thinking tha.t way. They're one of the worst out there when it comes to "taking" others flying, especially with their big 90 seaters and substandard pay rates for those airframes. To get mad at XJT for flying SLC routes is ridiculous
I'm just writing this so that if you're a Skywest employee and you're bitter at XJT for "taking" your flying, you should reevaluate the big picture and realize you're a hypocrite and you have no leg to stand on.
To the vast majority of Skywest people, there's no ill will at all, just pointing this out.

a select few... damn right it's only a select few. that's the way things are with every job, every company, anywhere in the world. cry me a f*cking river you pansy. 99.9% of us at SkyWest could give a sh!t that your in SLC with us, just like your crews could give sh!t about us when we were doing the IAH flying. It's all relative. Notice how your post reads that you have "heard" and people have "proclaimed" to say these things, well of course, your in the main hub for our airline. Get over you f*cking moron, otherwise, post a more useful thread.

 

[viper548]

A lot of us non-SLC based SkyWest pilots get a weird vibe when we're in SLC too. It may not be that you're Express Jet, it may just be that you're not one of the chosen few.

If another pilot nods at you as you pass in the terminal in SLC, they aren't based in SLC. That base is like a whole different company

 

[atlcrjdriver]

Sorry to add a little fuel to the fire, but ASA will be back in SLC this Summer.

Things will be back the way they are supposed to be. I don't care whether you talk to me or not. See you this Summer!

Ba, Bye!

I don't care who you are or who you fly for, that's funny right there:beer:

 

[dbchandler1]

Ummm.......hate to break the news, Sport, but that is how all regional pilots get paid, except perhaps Mesa. You think that only happens at Skywest? Wow...

I believe that Republic and Horizon have certain restrictions on Cancellation pay as well.

 

[Willy21]

Sorry to add a little fuel to the fire, but ASA will be back in SLC this Summer.

Things will be back the way they are supposed to be. I don't care whether you talk to me or not. See you this Summer!

Ba, Bye!

If that happens can I come back and move in with you and mom? Maybe ASA will hire me back.

 

[John Pennekamp]

I thinks its sad/funny that pilot groups fight with each other for what is essentially scope. Like any pilot anywhere had anything to do with routes, bases, aircraft, scope. So get pissed at the pilot group, it shows your intelligence.

I think the hatred you speak of towards a pilot group comes when some pilot groups like Mesa and SkyWest take a substandard contract and refuse to unite with the rest of the industry. Then we suddenly see RFPs come out and their airline underbids everyone and captures the flying. Then our companies come to us asking for concessions.

 

[SkyWstman]

Who cares about any of this? Just grab a flyrod and go fishin. That takes care of it for me.

 

[airtime42]

Boo hoo. Have some Kool-Aid. Business is business. Wow, look at all the Walmarts, Targets, Best Buys etc that have put ma and pa stores out of business. Look at the corporations that go oversees and put the US factories out of business. Um, capitalist society, I suppose. What's your point again?

So that makes it ok i guess.. Whatever lets you sleep at night. Just as long as all you scabs don't ever have any aspirations to fly for a unionized carrier. Must be something in the water out there

 

[10nCLR]

So that makes it ok i guess.. Whatever lets you sleep at night. Just as long as all you scabs don't ever have any aspirations to fly for a unionized carrier. Must be something in the water out there

out where? Hawaii?

Nevermind...I want to hang out with SkyWstman and catch some Montana Trout.

 

[Speedtape]

out where? Hawaii?

Nevermind...I want to hang out with SkyWstman and catch some Montana Trout.

Hey,

I'll be back this summer and I'll take you up on your trout fishing offer. But please, no Kool-Aid!

 

[Morning Wood]

Look at their history of putting other companies and pilot groups out of business.

Really? Which ones?

 

[Bako Cap]

Just as long as all you scabs don't ever have any aspirations to fly for a unionized carrier. Must be something in the water out there

If I had a buck for every time I've heard this. I guess it doesn't count that I know of 7 SkyWest pilots in the last month that got hired on at a major (ALPA no less). Yup, working for SkyWest is a dead end job with no hope of getting hired anywhere else. TOOL.

 

[10nCLR]

Hey,

I'll be back this summer and I'll take you up on your trout fishing offer. But please, no Kool-Aid!

Sure thing, I will leave the Kool-Aid at home and bring a 12 pack of the one and only, Moose Drool or some Scapegoat Pale Ale. Ugh, I miss drinking that Pale Ale down by the river breathing in that fresh clean Montana air while basking under that Big blue Sky. <sigh>

 

[Spicepilots]

If another pilot nods at you as you pass in the terminal in SLC, they aren't based in SLC. That base is like a whole different company

So true. It's a huge base, and yet they just KNOW you're not from there. You might as well be wearing women's underwear over your uniform when you walk in the crew lounge with all the strange looks you get.

On another note, some of you guys are starting to sound like a broken record on the non-union issue. Give it up already. Mesa underbids everyone. Way to go ALPA, what with your solidarity and all that. Oh yeah, the pilots don't have anything to do with RFP's. How easily I forget. Must be the koolaid rotting my brain.