Skywest Staffing

[rchcfi]

So I just got a text from a friend of mine there and am hearing that pilots are leaving for other opportunities to the tune of 10-15 per month. When I left, OO was understaffed and people were being worked to the bone. I heard that June/July were going to be the busiest months ever for the company as well. My buddy is currently sitting reserve and crediting 120+ hours per month and getting very tired. Has the company seen the trend of folks leaving and made arrangements, or have they completely been caught off guard?

 

[BHopper88]

maybe both, EMB capts are being offered to be right seat trained, just for 2 months (or at least thats what we are told).

 

[Erlanger]

So I just got a text from a friend of mine there and am hearing that pilots are leaving for other opportunities to the tune of 10-15 per month. When I left, OO was understaffed and people were being worked to the bone. I heard that June/July were going to be the busiest months ever for the company as well. My buddy is currently sitting reserve and crediting 120+ hours per month and getting very tired. Has the company seen the trend of folks leaving and made arrangements, or have they completely been caught off guard?

Skywest has lost 48 pilots in the past 12 months. The month of May they had their biggest lost in years of 8 pilots leaving in a single month. Your friend may of been basing his figures on that one month lose in May but it hasn't been a trend...yet.

 

[SpyFlysDOTs]

The FAA has put on the hard sell specifically to the FOs when sitting in the jumpseat. In the past 60 days, I have had 3 feds in the jump, telling of all the retirements of older inspectors, and the salaries offered were double what these FO's were making, plus home nearly every night.

 

[sayrejm]

Sign me up! I hear one tell me it's next to impossible to compete against a military background though.

 

[clr4theapch]

Just asking here, but how does a pilot fly 120 hours a month in the face of the regs that say max of 100hrs in 30 days???

Just courious?

 

[DHPFLYN]

He said credit 120hrs a month not flight time. Have alot of DHD's or good soft time will do it pretty easily at least with our contract couldn't tell you about the skywest contract.

 

[Chairman]

Just asking here, but how does a pilot fly 120 hours a month in the face of the regs that say max of 100hrs in 30 days???

Just courious?

I think the EMB is still grandfathered in from the old 135 rules. They also have I think 34/7 insted of the 30/7 restriction

 

[MarineGrunt]

I'm about 35% from the bottom and have only gone up 20 in the past year....

 

[SkyNation]

SkyWest block hours are to increase in July and August by 10,000 followed by an overall decrease in the fall of 30,000. They're just trying to get through to the fall, when VLOAs will be offered again and line credits will be reduced-again.

lots of soft time pay at SkyWest. I think I heard average pilot credits 1200 hours per year. That includes vacation, training, DH pay, min. day on one leg flown, standups, etc.

 

[CX880]

Wtf? sign me up. If I were a skywest captain I would take that temporary FO position as vacation. no more decisions for 2 months. just sit back and relax and enjoy the view.

 

[strega7]

I think the EMB is still grandfathered in from the old 135 rules. They also have I think 34/7 insted of the 30/7 restriction

Changed at the first of the year to current 121 rules. Now we are all 30/7.

 

[www.]

oh boy!

 

[MYFpilot]

lots of soft time pay at SkyWest. I think I heard average pilot credits 1200 hours per year. That includes vacation, training, DH pay, min. day on one leg flown, standups, etc.

1200 would be on the high end, for people who like working 20 days out of the month. I bet the average is more like 1000 a year. I credited 835 hours in the last year on the Brasilia. I'm a line holder, but I usually drop down to about 70 hours a month in order to get the days off I want and make our god awful trips somewhat bearable.

 

[USC328]

My best month at SkyWest was 182 hrs credit. I was an FO flying with a checkairman. I was displaced 11 out of my 15 ASE standups and paid 95 hrs credit. After officially displaced (72hrs prior to the trip) I would pick up another standup on the same night as my displaced ASE standups. I got paid for both standups. On my days off, I'd pick up JRM (junior man trips...Time and a half pay). Each JRM trip multiplied out (ie: 5 hr local equaled 7.5 credit, plus my displaced ASE standups and my picked up standups) gave me 182 hours credit. As an ASE FO, I was getting 22 days off a month and the guaranteed 83 hrs credit per "unwritten" policy to fly ASE. I would only block around 55 hrs. With 45 hrs block and 22 days off to play with, I'd pick up more trips and averaged 130hrs credit as an ASE FO. Those were the good days. Now on reserve, I am breaking guarantee and making 95-105hrs credit per month. Just spoke with another DEN Reserve CA that did 125 credit last month. As mentioned above, SkyWest has alot of soft pay. NOT, just what you block. That's why our W2s have historically been higher than other carriers, even though our hourly rates may be lower. Hope that answers your questions.

 

[Dubya]

He said credit 120hrs a month not flight time. Have alot of DHD's or good soft time will do it pretty easily at least with our contract couldn't tell you about the skywest contract.

haaa! he said "skywest" and "contract"...together.

 

[bmpilot2003]

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haaa! he said "skywest" and "contract"...together.

I know its sad.

 

[WAVIT Inbound]

haaa! he said "skywest" and "contract"...together.

I was counting down the time until someone said this. You guys really need some new material.

 

[PBRstreetgang]

Wtf? sign me up. If I were a skywest captain I would take that temporary FO position as vacation. no more decisions for 2 months. just sit back and relax and enjoy the view.

Wait isn't that what you do now? Just fill the right seat so the L/R balance isn't off. I think I hit that nail on the head in a previous post.But alas you aren't a SKYW Captain, you are a goatjhet f/o working for hulas, oh the irony!
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