Living in SLC with SkyWest
01-02-2018, 09:52 PM
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Definitely a "good ol' boy network"! Seen good folks get Sh!t canned and complete idiots move up the ladder. Horrible training! Pilots with egos the size of Texas. As a new hire, expensive domiciles with poor pay. Sure, other Regionals have poor pay as well but try living in California as a new hire on that crap! On the bright side, never had maintenance issues, the mechanics are top notch! Worked there a few years got my PIC and moved on. No further comments.
01-02-2018, 11:38 PM
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Thanks a lot for sharing more.
Definitely a "good ol' boy network"! Seen good folks get Sh!t canned and complete idiots move up the ladder. Horrible training! Pilots with egos the size of Texas. As a new hire, expensive domiciles with poor pay. Sure, other Regionals have poor pay as well but try living in California as a new hire on that crap! On the bright side, never had maintenance issues, the mechanics are top notch! Worked there a few years got my PIC and moved on. No further comments.
01-03-2018, 06:16 AM
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Majors wont be able to train fast enough for retirements.. they won’t take on thousands of E175’s that are flying out there... seems Majors Training 1000 pilots ler year is the cap. Add another 1000 for a new regional operations l, that would break them..
01-03-2018, 06:33 AM
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Those Majors can out-source training when it exceeds their in-house capacity, including back to the regionals who'll have extra seats in their schoolhouse (perhaps easiest if you have WO regionals, perhaps not - internal politics vs controls by contractual arrangements).
01-03-2018, 08:40 AM
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They're smart enough to recognize the truth you speak. Downsized regionals who have given up planes to majors will have surplus training capacity.
Those Majors can out-source training when it exceeds their in-house capacity, including back to the regionals who'll have extra seats in their schoolhouse (perhaps easiest if you have WO regionals, perhaps not - internal politics vs controls by contractual arrangements).
Those Majors can out-source training when it exceeds their in-house capacity, including back to the regionals who'll have extra seats in their schoolhouse (perhaps easiest if you have WO regionals, perhaps not - internal politics vs controls by contractual arrangements).
The question isn't can any particular airline train at a given rate. For ground school, their capacity is unlimited, I sat through a new hired class of 70 once.
The question is how much SIM capacity exists globally for the aircraft in question, and who wants to use it. SIMs can't be built quickly, very small niche production.
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