Skywest Questions

Zondaracer said:
It's been talked about. Talking about letting retired Skywest pilots to do part 91 legs. Some are for it, some against. We will see what happens.
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I still haven't decided whether I'd be for or against it. Let's be honest, no one wants to do those flights and they get assigned to reserves anyway. A 1 hour repo flights turns into a 5 hour nightmare trying to get a ride/fueler/rampers/a CLR over to a remote parking spot ect. I don't see the harm in letting the company do this, however history shows they are exceptionally good at manipulating policy to favor them.
 
RA390 said:
I still haven't decided whether I'd be for or against it. Let's be honest, no one wants to do those flights and they get assigned to reserves anyway. A 1 hour repo flights turns into a 5 hour nightmare trying to get a ride/fueler/rampers/a CLR over to a remote parking spot ect. I don't see the harm in letting the company do this, however history shows they are exceptionally good at manipulating policy to favor them.
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I don't like it for no other reason than our planes should be flown by our pilots. Period.
 
RA390 said:
I still haven't decided whether I'd be for or against it. Let's be honest, no one wants to do those flights and they get assigned to reserves anyway. A 1 hour repo flights turns into a 5 hour nightmare trying to get a ride/fueler/rampers/a CLR over to a remote parking spot ect. I don't see the harm in letting the company do this, however history shows they are exceptionally good at manipulating policy to favor them.
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Your airplanes. Your pilots. Period.


But lets be honest you guys aren't protected so they can and will do whatever.
 
RA390 said:
I still haven't decided whether I'd be for or against it. Let's be honest, no one wants to fly those little RJs anyways. A 1 hour repo flights turns into a 5 hour nightmare trying to get a ride/fueler/rampers/a CLR over to a remote parking spot ect. I don't see the harm in letting the company outsource this, however history shows they are exceptionally good at manipulating policy to favor them.
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If I change just a few words you'll sound a lot like a pilot for a legacy airline in the mid 1990s. This is a scope issue, and giving away scope should be a nonstarter.
 
Hrmph. Not sure what "agreement" there is to be reached about the whole non SKW pilots flying 91 flights. Our planes, our pilots. I don't even think it should be a question when we have reserves like myself going months without touching an airplane.
 
GX said:
Marketability in the Asian market, should I ever need it. That and being 6'5, I wanted a bigger cockpit.

SJS... LOL. You must have been so caught up in your own world that you missed that I flew pistons in Alaska and w the US Forest Service for 2000+ hours before going to the regionals.

This is the kind of adversarial crap that makes me not post here anymore. I just popped in to share my experience at SKW and it devolves into the boo birds coming out and telling me how I got it wrong... Blah blah blah. Yet, not a single person who has posted could begin to predict what the next 5 years looks like in the industry.

SKW rocks. It's better than Ameriflight. ;) The people are great. I love the airplane. In picking it, I made the best decision that I could at the time based on the information that I had at the time. We'll see how it works out. I'm staying here until I can move on. That's it.

Enjoy your circle jerk, boys.
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Is this when a new hire calls me to complain about being on reserve (again)?

"The training department told me ..."
"The pilot recruiter told me..."

"Yeah, and the Policy Manual says..."

(only one of these things matters, and in b4 "oh they can do whatever" - you discourage those of us who are making an effort here.)
 
Autothrust Blue said:
Is this when a new hire calls me to complain about being on reserve (again)
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@JordanD asked if he misread what I had said about reserve. (Which, if you'll re-read, I mentioned commuting to reserve.) He did. And he CLEARLY misunderstood what I was communicating.

Reserve is an understood part of the business and part of being an airline pilot. I only mentioned reserve because I reached my 100 in 120 and am on the pine for the month of March. His mis-read. He misunderstood and jumped to conclusions. Quit using a snappy one liner to try to make a point that I never said in the first place.

Do yourself a favor and re-read my original post where I mentioned commuting to reserve. Thanks.
 
JordanD said:
Hrmph. Not sure what "agreement" there is to be reached about the whole non SKW pilots flying 91 flights. Our planes, our pilots. I don't even think it should be a question when we have reserves like myself going months without touching an airplane.
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The problem is you don't have a contract with a scope section to even negotiate against to come to an agreement. If they want it they get it. They as in management.
 
ClarkGriswold said:
The problem is you don't have a contract with a scope section to even negotiate against to come to an agreement. If they want it they get it. They as in management.
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I can make an admittedly tenuous argument about the Letter of Agreement here. But you're correct.
 
GX said:
@JordanD asked if he misread what I had said about reserve. (Which, if you'll re-read, I mentioned commuting to reserve.) He did. And he CLEARLY misunderstood what I was communicating.

Reserve is an understood part of the business and part of being an airline pilot. I only mentioned reserve because I reached my 100 in 120 and am on the pine for the month of March. His mis-read. He misunderstood and jumped to conclusions. Quit using a snappy one liner to try to make a point that I never said in the first place.

Do yourself a favor and re-read my original post where I mentioned commuting to reserve. Thanks.
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Did you commute in today? Sounds like someone has a case of the Mondays.
 
JordanD said:
Did you commute in today? Sounds like someone has a case of the Mondays.
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Actually it's even better. Deadhead to Denver. DEN- COS overnight. COS-DEN, deadhead back to ORD.

And I actually don't care at all. Just part of the business.
 
JordanD said:
Did you commute in today? Sounds like someone has a case of the Mondays.
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GX said:
@JordanD asked if he misread what I had said about reserve. (Which, if you'll re-read, I mentioned commuting to reserve.) He did. And he CLEARLY misunderstood what I was communicating.

Reserve is an understood part of the business and part of being an airline pilot. I only mentioned reserve because I reached my 100 in 120 and am on the pine for the month of March. His mis-read. He misunderstood and jumped to conclusions. Quit using a snappy one liner to try to make a point that I never said in the first place.

Do yourself a favor and re-read my original post where I mentioned commuting to reserve. Thanks.
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