Q for skywest pilots
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bike21
9-5 Ruins Lives
blee256 said:
Hope that helps. Its pretty cool about the block or better pay. Nothing beats getting there early and still getting paid the full price. Or being late and STILL making more money! However, that hurts our performance reward and company name, so on time and early is still the way to go!
viper548
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1) do they pay block or better?
Yes. It's leg by leg.
2) do they have trip/duty rigs?
No trip rig. Duty rig is 1:2 and after 12 hrs duty it's 1:1.
3) What do they pay for Deadheads? 100%? 50%?
100% scheduled block.
4) What do they pay for Cancellations due to MX, WX, or crew change?
100% for cancelled legs. If they change the schedule you get paid for what you flew or what the original schedule paid, whichever is higher.
Yes. It's leg by leg.
2) do they have trip/duty rigs?
No trip rig. Duty rig is 1:2 and after 12 hrs duty it's 1:1.
3) What do they pay for Deadheads? 100%? 50%?
100% scheduled block.
4) What do they pay for Cancellations due to MX, WX, or crew change?
100% for cancelled legs. If they change the schedule you get paid for what you flew or what the original schedule paid, whichever is higher.
4.) "If they change the schedule you get paid for what you flew or what the original schedule paid, whichever is higher."
Unless you're on reserve, in which case cancellations magically become "reflow to a later flight after a 3-hour sit"...or something. SkyWest has great work-rules unless you're on reserve.
Unless you're on reserve, in which case cancellations magically become "reflow to a later flight after a 3-hour sit"...or something. SkyWest has great work-rules unless you're on reserve.
Ralgha
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jdflight said:
I've seen no change in the amount of open time after the implementation of PBS. In other words, there is still open time.
Junior manning will exist no matter what bidding system is used. They run out of reserves and have a trip to cover (for whatever reason), they'll try to junior man someone.
mrivc211
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I think we're just waiting to see what Delta is going to do. Same thing happend with United when they filed. PBS takes a while to learn. I still prefer hard lines over it even though I've gotten 20 and 20 days off per month the last two months. I still don't like it. I've heard of guys getting FN which stands for forced flying. The thing that I don't like about it is you don't really know anything until it magically decides what you have at the end. If your seniority is good, then great, but you still aren't guaranteed anything because it does some weird and wacky stuff. I guess it is working out for me now, but it took 4-5 months to learn the thing. 3 of those being real bids thus giving up QOL during those months. I hope we(SGU) made the right decision by going this way.
Ophir
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I flew with a captain the other day who was on the commitee to bring it to SKYW. He was ragging on it pretty heavily. He knows how to uses it but he still was complaining that it took 3 days to figure out the bid vs. 8 hours now. And how it was still just a computer that didn't know the what the user wanted. So, in the event that everything you want in your bid doesn't work out, it just gives you a bunch of crap. It doesn't understand that you may have had some preferences in those layers that were really important to you. I think it is all in the learning curve. Can I schedule some tutoring O?
Lee D
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We are also going to lose Grand Junction to the Jet in January. (I believe.)
That was about 8 round trips a day, so that's gonna hurt the EMB lines too. Rats! IMO That's the best breakfast in the SLC EMB system. Good Gym just around the corner too.
Do you get much flying these days Ophir? When I was on reserve they used all of the reserve guys quite a bit. (Lots of TDY in Houston.) Seems to be pretty slow for the reserve guys in SLC on both sides of the house.
That was about 8 round trips a day, so that's gonna hurt the EMB lines too. Rats! IMO That's the best breakfast in the SLC EMB system. Good Gym just around the corner too.
Do you get much flying these days Ophir? When I was on reserve they used all of the reserve guys quite a bit. (Lots of TDY in Houston.) Seems to be pretty slow for the reserve guys in SLC on both sides of the house.
I've heard the SLC brasilia guys (CA's at least) are flying 110 hours a month. Maybe they are properly staffed on the FO side. I don't know what's going to happen with the EMBs in SLC, though when Jerry finally decides to consolidate (adios ASA) there should be more jet flying. Of course, all of this assumes DAL doesn't liquidate...good times.