Skywest Questions

Zondaracer said:
400 vs 410 PPR numbers? Just a guess, cuz I don't really know.
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His point is that some regional guys will say "I fly for DelCon so I bump this UAL guy on a Delta flight" and then the next week say "now I work for UAX so I bump a Delta guy on this UAL flight"

Very unethical.
 
adk said:
His point is that some regional guys will say "I fly for DelCon so I bump this UAL guy on a Delta flight" and then the next week say "now I work for UAX so I bump a Delta guy on this UAL flight"

Very unethical.
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Exactly.
 
adk said:
His point is that some regional guys will say "I fly for DelCon so I bump this UAL guy on a Delta flight" and then the next week say "now I work for UAX so I bump a Delta guy on this UAL flight"

Very unethical.
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Ok dumb question

I'm not all up to speed on jumpseat priority since I typically stick to SWA or company planes on my commutes, but my company flies for almost everyone... So we are a "eagle/connection/express" carrier, pick one and stick to it? Never tell the agent you work for a specific express carrier? Too many variables, I like SWAs....company then everyone else. Very easy for this dummy to understand.
 
skatergeek said:
Ok dumb question

I'm not all up to speed on jumpseat priority since I typically stick to SWA or company planes on my commutes, but my company flies for almost everyone... So we are a "eagle/connection/express" carrier, pick one and stick to it? Never tell the agent you work for a specific express carrier? Too many variables, I like SWAs....company then everyone else. Very easy for this dummy to understand.
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Unethical example:

Mesa pilots who flew the E175 (which only flies for UAX) were claiming that they were "US Airways Express" pilots and bumping people off of US Airways flights. Only Mesa's CRJ pilots supported US Airways Express, so it was extremely disingenuous for an E175 pilot to use their priority on Airways. Unfortunately, there's no great way to stop this ... We need to self police.
 
adk said:
Unethical example:

Mesa pilots who flew the E175 (which only flies for UAX) were claiming that they were "US Airways Express" pilots and bumping people off of US Airways flights. Only Mesa's CRJ pilots supported US Airways Express, so it was extremely disingenuous for an E175 pilot to use their priority on Airways. Unfortunately, there's no great way to stop this ... We need to self police.
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Ok that makes sense. On the CRJ in a lot of our bases you can be doing a different brand every week.
 
skatergeek said:
Ok that makes sense. On the CRJ in a lot of our bases you can be doing a different brand every week.
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Yes, it's a little more confusing for Skywest guys. Just realize that if you commute from, say, Las Vegas to Seattle and you bump a UAL guy off a Delta flight one week and then an Alaska flight next week, claiming priority on both, you're going to piss him off and hear about it.

TLDR: don't be a dick and you'll be good to go.
 
adk said:
Yes, it's a little more confusing for Skywest guys. Just realize that if you commute from, say, Las Vegas to Seattle and you bump a UAL guy off a Delta flight one week and then an Alaska flight next week, claiming priority on both, you're going to piss him off and hear about it.

TLDR: don't be a dick and you'll be good to go.
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I think in all the cases where I was listed and there was a discussion over who got the seat not once did I ever ask "who are you flying for?". It was always "where are you headed?"

Rules are great tie breakers I guess but why not just work it out between the two of you ahead of time instead of whipping out the rulebook?

I gave up my seat a couple times. Once to someone commuting to work and once to someone where we were both headed home (they had kids and a family to get to).


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trafficinsight said:
Rules are great tie breakers I guess but why not just work it out between the two of you ahead of time instead of whipping out the rulebook?

I gave up my seat a couple times. Once to someone commuting to work and once to someone where we were both headed home (they had kids and a family to get to).
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This is a prime example of my previous advice: don't be a dick :)

The rules are for the 5% of pilots that are dicks and make commuting miserable.
 
bike21 said:
We gonna lose DL bennies on the 175 methinks unless dedicated. Sad times.
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Yeah, my opinion on that is not printable.

Seggy said:
So how do you fix the jumpseat priority issue?
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I have something witty to say about getting a mainline job here, but I don't think it would be appreciated.

I don't know. Segregate the bases by what they actually fly? Get rid of SFO-based CR* DCI flying and consider them all UAX-dedicated? Alaska and American are mostly that way. I don't have a good answer for this. It certainly won't please everyone.

The only unambiguous case is a SKW pilot on a SKW airplane, and someone else trying to get on ahead of him (and as I understand it, we don't enjoy priority on Eagle flights on our own metal, but it's been a LONG while since I looked at this). This is not my bailiwick.
 
I'm still learning the ropes off all of this but does anyone know how long it's taking to be awarded COS? I'm trying to plan a move and it seems nearly impossible since odds are I'll be placed in MSP when I'm done with sims. And they won't let you schedule the moving days less than a month and a half out. I'm trying to get the COS award schedule with moving days since it would be a nightmare to commute from there.

Any tips for a new guy who hasn't had to work the logistics of this out before?

Also do they do the awards at the beginning of every month for the following month or how does it work?
 
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Ayork62493 said:
I'm still learning the ropes off all of this but does anyone know how long it's taking to be awarded COS? I'm trying to plan a move and it seems nearly impossible since odds are I'll be placed in MSP when I'm done with sims. And they won't let you schedule the moving days less than a month and a half out. I'm trying to get the COS award schedule with moving days since it would be a nightmare to commute from there.

Any tips for a new guy who hasn't had to work the logistics of this out before?

Also do they do the awards at the beginning of every month for the following month or how does it work?
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My classmate CRJ class of Jan/2016 got COS one month after finishing IOE.
 
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