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01-28-2016, 09:29 AM

#14771

word302

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Position: 737 FO

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Originally Posted by JB22

Their world will be less roses and peaches in a few years. They need to go to the majors but I realize many of them are unqualified and are hoping to make it a few more years

Dude. Your trolling skills just keep getting weaker.

01-28-2016, 10:06 AM

#14772

rcfd13

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Originally Posted by turboflyin

Are new hires still getting 175 ORD?? I've had my bid in for the 175 and obviously haven't gotten it. DVR shows 0 each month for 175 FO but I want to know if the company is ignoring us on the transition list while putting new hires ahead of us.

That's business as usual. I got ignored on the transition list from Brasilia -> CRJ when I wasn't seat locked while they kept dumping new hires into the domicile I wanted. By the time I finally got my transition I had 60 people junior to me in the base. When the PDX CRJ base opened a bunch of senior Brasilia people got screwed too because they decided not to run any transitions and award most of the base to pilots already on the CRJ.

They always award transfers before transitions, and they will arbitrarily decide not to run transition classes while keeping the new hires coming. The same happened on the Brasilia and it'll happen with CRJ -> 175 too.

01-28-2016, 11:25 AM

#14773

Blackwing

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Re, the latest DVR, what is the likelihood that they will backfill vacancies created by awarded transfers/transitions/upgrades? They didn't backfill anything last month from what I can tell.

01-28-2016, 12:28 PM

#14774

Blackwing

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Cool, thx.

01-28-2016, 12:36 PM

#14775

word302

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Originally Posted by Blackwing

Cool, thx.

What base are you trying to get into?

01-28-2016, 02:30 PM

#14776

Squallrider

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Position: 175 CA

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Quote:

Originally Posted by SqueeG

Found this nugget in the Forbes article found here:

http://www.airlinepilotforums.com/re...consolida.html

1. Is this true??

2. If true, this would appear to mean that Skywest is NOT a place a regional applicant wants to go (see: reserve times, upgrade, etc.)??

1. As mentioned that includes Express Jet, SkyWest management have been extremely good about placing aircraft that go off lease with another carrier. Skywest just had 72 new hires for the CRJ alone and Im guessing another 10-20 for 175.

2. In my somewhat biased opinion, unless you have the hours for Direct entry captain, skywest or compass are your best bets.

01-28-2016, 02:32 PM

#14777

Squallrider

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Quote:

Originally Posted by turboflyin

I must have missed that. Thats BS then that senior transitions are being overlooked while new hires get a seat.

The release that I saw only said 72 new hires for the CRJ, it didn't mention numbers for the ERJ, Im assuming its mostly transitions since senior bases are opening and junior bases such as ORD are way way way overstaffed (215 odd FOs on list , 100 lines)