Skywest

[Splert]

http://www.airlinepilotcontracts.com/Contracts/Skywest2003.pdf

SP 305 Paragraph 29

 

[wilde737]

It's Official

Well It's now official, I just got my rejection letter today. Hey General, Do You have the phone number for Home Depot? I might want to try that again. Now the real question is whether or not I want to stay on the ramp and throw bags for another six months. Maybe then I could get another shot at it. Hard to say. Later, Wilde737.

 

[Splert]

Sorry to learn about the letter.

Where do you throw bags? What city? We have had a number of rampers that have made the transition to flight operations.

Keep you head up because if this is what you want to do then this is what you have to do.

Out!

 

[Mt.Hood Hobbit]

FedEx Good U.S. Mail BAD

I got the congrats letter 4 days after the interview; however, had 1 friend who waited 3 weeks. The wait is brutal- just suck it up and good luck.

 

[strega7]

talk to the PIC involved in the RAP incident and ask him what he thinks of ASAP program

Dude, the checkairman in the left seat let the new F.O. basically crash the airplane onto the ruway in RAP after starting the approach when it was below mins. He's lucky. The ASAP program let him stay a pilot even though the FAA was out for blood and wanted all his certificates. Trust me.


Fly Safe.

 

[ILStoMinimums]

Now is the FO still with SKW?

 

[Redeyes]

Dude, the checkairman in the left seat let the new F.O. basically crash the airplane onto the ruway in RAP after starting the approach when it was below mins. He's lucky. The ASAP program let him stay a pilot even though the FAA was out for blood and wanted all his certificates. Trust me.


Fly Safe.

Not true, get your facts straight before you write something like this on a public message board.

The way I justify my career at SkyWest is like this. I work for the best company in a very crappy industry. They don't have to improve conditions, in fact they can't or they will be priced out of the market. THE WHOLE INDUSTRY HAS TO IMPROVE, which is not gonna happen. So the moral is don't let your kids grow up to be regional airline pilots.

 

[ILStoMinimums]

Not true, get your facts straight before you write something like this on a public message board.

The way I justify my career at SkyWest is like this. I work for the best company in a very crappy industry. They don't have to improve conditions, in fact they can't or they will be priced out of the market. THE WHOLE INDUSTRY HAS TO IMPROVE, which is not gonna happen. So the moral, don't let your kids grow up to be regional airline pilots.

Hey I like that definition.......

 

[Heavy Set]

Well It's now official, I just got my rejection letter today. Hey General, Do You have the phone number for Home Depot? I might want to try that again. Now the real question is whether or not I want to stay on the ramp and throw bags for another six months. Maybe then I could get another shot at it. Hard to say. Later, Wilde737.

Try for Eagle - it's hiring big time. Don't worry about it, you can reapply if you are so interested in a few months time. Good luck.

 

[General Lee]

Wilde737,


As Heavy Set just said, try Eagle. They seem to be hiring a lot and you can always try Skywest again. You will do fine.....


Bye Bye--General Lee

 

[ILStoMinimums]

Has Eagle been hiring into the CRJ or ERJ lately? have guys been getting the Saab or ATR?

 

[Russ]

Strega

I know the check airmen involved. If the allegations you say were true, he wouldn't be flying the line today. Don't believe me, check the bids for Oct and you will see his name there. I hear that same story from others who don't know the man and what happened. True, he let a FO fly an approach to mins. Is that prohibited anywhere? I flew approaches to mins many times, you probably too as a FO. As it stands, the FO is the one who flys cat II approaches in the RJ, including ones potentially single engine to a missed. How is PSP these days?

Yes the FO is still with the company.

 

[strega7]

the FO is the one who flys cat II approaches in the RJ, including ones potentially single engine to a missed. How is PSP these days?

Didn't know RAP was a CAT II approach. Do know the Captain lands the plane at the end of a CAT II approach, not the FO. Why isn't he a checkairman any more? Not trying to fight, just defend the ASAP program when the FAA wanted to ground him and the program saved his bacon.
I hear PSP is alway hot this time of year.

 

[No.W.]

That check-airman was the victim of (IMHO) a FSDO employee who was out to get someone...check the facts...and be careful what you say before you do. He's one of the best at SkyWest... Find out who he is and ask him his side of the story, its a good story...

NW

 

[propjockey]

"a FSDO employee who was out to get someone"

Isn't that most of them?

I think SkyWest is fortunate not to be in the DEN FSDO. They're a bunch of Nazis.