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AirSeattle

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SkyWest is hosting more job fairs. Check out www.skywest.com for more details. San Diego October 24th, San Francisco October 26th, Memphis October 30th, Portland November 14th and Cincinnati November 15/16th.

Short upgrade times too......
 
Months maybe...rumor has it. The newer First Officers don't have enough time to upgrade or won't bid the domiciles they need to hold it. The next upgrade class is going out short on the EMB.
 
It could go to four years next week. It's truly a crap shoot on who will have the short upgrade when you reach that point.
 
Do you get to pick your a/c when you apply?

MM
 
The upgrades at Skywest will come to a stand still the day ASA ratifies a new contract. Same thing happened at ASA during Comairs strike back in 2001. When they signed and had rehired enough pilots we gave them back their airplanes that we took delivery on. Most of those 900's will be flown out of ATL. Whose base is that?

Very much hinges on the outcome of Skywest's union drive. If they shoot it down, ASA will be painted into a corner and will most likely TA a deal that undercuts Skywest with clauses for all 900 flying and the return of all our 700's. If they pass it, then the push from national will be one list. 4000+ will have a mighty strong voice. Much stronger than the Tambernacle Choir that management is use to hearing.

If it gets settled soon, there might be huge growth. Frontier, Continental, and Delta are all looking for Q400 operators. If that when to Skywest inc, imagine the upgrades.
 
So you would like to have get the 700's and 900's back to fly them for less than the Skywest pilots are getting right now? What kind of stupid reasoning is that????

BTW, as I wrote on another thread, I don't expect a union drive to succeed. Too many disgruntled ex-ALPA refugees.
 
Is it mandatory to attend one these fairs? I have been religously updating my resume on their website over the past three months with no reply.
 
CopilotDoug said:
Is it mandatory to attend one these fairs? I have been religously updating my resume on their website over the past three months with no reply.
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Pretty much yes if you really want to work there. They know those that go to these fairs really want to work for them, so they give you the option of what day to interview and positive space to fly out to SLC. As long as you handle yourself well in the interview, the job is yours. And yes upgrade on this past Bro upgrade class had a march '06 hire date, you just have to be ready for it. 1000crew 2500 tt.
 
CFI2766 said:
Pretty much yes if you really want to work there. They know those that go to these fairs really want to work for them, so they give you the option of what day to interview and positive space to fly out to SLC. As long as you handle yourself well in the interview, the job is yours. And yes upgrade on this past Bro upgrade class had a march '06 hire date, you just have to be ready for it. 1000crew 2500 tt.
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I'm curious as to why they have all of the online setups for pilot application if it won't get you anywhere.
 
JJET44 said:
What's short?
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Next Weeks E120 upgrade class has some 7 month guy/gals in it. The RJ upgrade class that starts in a 2 weeks will have 11 month up-graders in it. The prediction is for the RJ to stay at 2 years for some time and the bro is going to stay at 6 months-1year for a while! SkyWest is also at the point were they have to keep upgrading to keep up with attrition.
 
amcnd said:
Next Weeks E120 upgrade class has some 7 month guy/gals in it. The RJ upgrade class that starts in a 2 weeks will have 11 month up-graders in it. The prediction is for the RJ to stay at 2 years for some time and the bro is going to stay at 6 months-1year for a while! SkyWest is also at the point were they have to keep upgrading to keep up with attrition.
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Is there a high attrition rate? I've heard there's a high attrition rate as well with Pinnacle (not that I'm comparing the two airlines) but why are the pilots leaving?
 
AirSeattle said:
SkyWest is hosting more job fairs. Check out www.skywest.com for more details. San Diego October 24th, San Francisco October 26th, Memphis October 30th, Portland November 14th and Cincinnati November 15/16th.

Short upgrade times too......
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CVG isn't listed on the group interview page. Where did you get that?
 
CopilotDoug said:
Is it mandatory to attend one these fairs? I have been religously updating my resume on their website over the past three months with no reply.
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Your only supposed to update once every three months. But even if that didn't annoy them, I updated every 3 months for well over a year and I probably have more time than you have, and had no luck. Not until I went to a group job fair did I then have a job less than two weeks later.

From what I've seen about 95% of the interviews come from three methods.

-Somebody to walk your resume in and vouch for you
-Group job fair
-Fly a CRJ already or at my interview a 747 dude and military flyers
 
Hootie9750 said:
Your only supposed to update once every three months. But even if that didn't annoy them, I updated every 3 months for well over a year and I probably have more time than you have, and had no luck. Not until I went to a group job fair did I then have a job less than two weeks later.

From what I've seen about 95% of the interviews come from three methods.

-Somebody to walk your resume in and vouch for you
-Group job fair
-Fly a CRJ already or at my interview a 747 dude and military flyers
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Fair enough...
 
CopilotDoug said:
Is there a high attrition rate? I've heard there's a high attrition rate as well with Pinnacle (not that I'm comparing the two airlines) but why are the pilots leaving?
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Well FedEx, UPS and SWA pays better...the ones that are leaving are going to majors not to other regionals, but guys from other regionals are coming here all the time.
 
"Most of those 900's will be flown out of ATL. Whose base is that?"

With that reasoning, ASA should have never had a 700 base in SLC, since it is a SkyWest base. Not that I'm defending management's decision policies, but if your logic is consistent, then flying should be isolated at the hubs by the biggest feed carrier, across all airframes. If you what you suggest is fair, then the loss of SLC should be of no real concern; if it is not fair, and I do not think it really is, then there should be concern, but not using the same logic.
 
wmuflyguy said:
CVG isn't listed on the group interview page. Where did you get that?
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It was in an email from HR to all pilots. The interview page should be updated soon.
 
amcnd said:
Next Weeks E120 upgrade class has some 7 month guy/gals in it. The RJ upgrade class that starts in a 2 weeks will have 11 month up-graders in it. The prediction is for the RJ to stay at 2 years for some time and the bro is going to stay at 6 months-1year for a while! SkyWest is also at the point were they have to keep upgrading to keep up with attrition.
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Who is this 11 month RJ upgrader? The RJ Captain at SKYW is not going that junior. If it is they skipped me.
 
SKYWRJGUY said:
"Most of those 900's will be flown out of ATL. Whose base is that?"

With that reasoning, ASA should have never had a 700 base in SLC, since it is a SkyWest base. Not that I'm defending management's decision policies, but if your logic is consistent, then flying should be isolated at the hubs by the biggest feed carrier, across all airframes. If you what you suggest is fair, then the loss of SLC should be of no real concern; if it is not fair, and I do not think it really is, then there should be concern, but not using the same logic.
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At the time only ASA and CMR were allowed to fly any aircraft over 50 seats (I believe the cap was 58 aircraft). That is why CMR did the 700 flying prior to DFW closing, and after DFW closed ASA had excess 700s that needed a home in SLC.

Shortly thereafter part of the Delta pilots' concessionary TA increased the cap to some incredibly large number of 70-seat RJs and also allowed the contract carriers to fly aircraft larger than 50 seats.

SkyWest pilots seem to think that they had some unalienable right to the SLC 70-seat flying when in fact they could not fly it at all, at least during the early 2005 time period.
 
3 of us at my former airline emailed our resumes to the HR lady. We received a reply in hours with interview dates in SLC. It's worth a try.
 
Junior RJ Captain on the last round of awards sits around seniority 1500, EMB Captain around 2000. This is out of 2450+ pilots. Rumor has it, up to 3000 pilots total by the end of next year.
 
socalpilot said:
Who is this 11 month RJ upgrader? The RJ Captain at SKYW is not going that junior. If it is they skipped me.
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Go look at the awards! you will see a few 11/04 date of hire ORD CRJ CA. So either you dont have the total time, or you dont have ORD as a base choice, or you are seat locked?
 
So now the inalienable right to fly 90-seaters out of ATL is based on hub dominance? I would suggest that your flying those would be better based on losing them for lack of competitive structure rather than as a function of geography. It was probably DAL's desire to split all flying nonetheless--regardless of geography and costs--for the sake of security and continuity; I am surprised there hasn't been more overlap in SLC even though ASA routes will/have been absorbed by SKYW. Is any of that LAX stuff flowing back through SLC or is it all out-and-back? We shall see if this is a cost or geography thing; however, since DAL and other majors seem to jump through hoops at the slightest hiccup (and for that we cannot fathom why the business plan fails to deliver constantly), what we have today or even the next 6 months is likely to change over the course of the next few years.

Now is the time for the General to pipe in with something stupid and logicless (as if there is anything less from him)--surprised he stayed away this long.
 

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