Skywest Questions

Zondaracer said:
Things change all the time. ORD goes junior on both fleets but on the CRJ, DTW goes even more junior. We had a few months on the E175 where new hires were going to LAX. New hires on the E175 are going to ORD again. New hires on the CRJ are going to DTW now but a couple months ago they were going to DTW and ORD. The last RSR report said that ORD is understaffed but DTW must be even more understaffed because the next domicile vacancy report shows 40 openings in DTW and 0 in ORD. Right now, E175 new hires will go to ORD and CRJ may take a couple months to get ORD.
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Thank you for the heads up!
 
It's unfortunate that they're sold all these things in training and such. I was that way at first too though, I started and everyone was getting Denver and then bam. Enjoy your commute to reserve for six months. It sucked but it at least I learned the airline owed me nothing :bounce:
 
Ayork62493 said:
It's unfortunate that they're sold all these things in training and such. I was that way at first too though, I started and everyone was getting Denver and then bam. Enjoy your commute to reserve for six months. It sucked but it at least I learned the airline owed me nothing :bounce:
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True, they owe you (or me) nothing.
However, a job has to meet the competitive mins to be considered desirable.
 
Ayork62493 said:
There's no denying that, but anyone who has been in the airlines knows how unpredictable it is. All about timing, be off by a month and your life could be drastically different.
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Ask anyone who started at (hit regional), for instance; the reason I'm a CRJ captain now is, for instance, because I started when I did, and is plum dumb luck on my part.

The only thing they owe me is the seat I can hold and the associated pay rate.
 
Autothrust Blue said:
Isn't that special?
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Originally I wrote a lengthy post detailing how based on your time line and experience of my friends going 121 ten years ago I absolutely get it where you're coming from. Notice my join date - I was contemplating going zero to hero to 121 back then, decided against it, slowed down to a weekend pilot pace, been busy with other wonderful things and didn't even think about flying for a living until a bit over couple of years ago a friend, who used to do some contract flying for me, basically dragged me into the Caravan seat as he was vacating it to go fly the X's at XO Jet.
That Van part time job lead to a Bravo and Ultra and CJ part time jobs and subsequently a CJ2+ contract with a different shop last summer.
Meanwhile my better half took a cushy job at the UAL HQ, providing the possibility of a future legacy reference there, and sort of changing the game a bit from "Silver or commute from FL" to "live in base at ORD" as far as the regionals are concerned.
Hence the "If the stars align I'll give it a shot" attitude. It is not about entitlement or shortcuts - I don't expect any - but rather what I can and cannot make work.
Not that I'm losing sleep over it, but I do hope the above explanation will tune the attitude down a notch. It's a small world, might end up flying together one day.
 
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