MatchPoint

My guess is UniCaL JCBA negotiations and that the price of fuel has decreased. Remember…….Mgt's reactive, not proactive.

rjboy

IF it is off it's because they weren't able to get anyone to take a big pay cut to fly it. This same RFP has been thrown out there 3-4 times over the last 3-4 years and they keep waiting for someone to pull another Colgan but nobody has.

CriticalMach

"SkyWest President Chip Childs states
with oil prices at $150 a barrel, a larger
70-seat turboprop is a ‘no-brainer,’ but at
lower levels of $80-100 a barrel the
economics are ‘on the thin line.’
He concludes there is not an ideal
replacement option for the 30-seat EMB-
120s and CRJ200s, and believe a 50-
seat turboprop would be suitable for a lot
of missions carried out by those aircraft.
But airframers have little interest in
creating a high-speed 50-seat turboprop.
Bombardier built 267 50-seat Q300s but
the aircraft was much slower, at 287kt,
than the Q400s 360kt. The
manufacturer told the summit in
Albuquerque that shrinking the Q400 to
50 seats was not viable because the
capacity would not support the cost of the
higher-power engines.
‘You need enough chairs to cover the
speed,’ said director of market development
Jerome Cheung, who added that 50-seat
high-speed turboprops had struggled to
meet large-scale demand. For example,
only about 60 Saab 2000s were produced.
Childs said if the airline had more
visibility on the outcome of scope talks, it
may have made an aircraft decision by
now. A dual-class Q400 looked
attractive, he said, but evaluations rest on
the economics of a larger turboprop and
‘what happens with scope.’"

CriticalMach

Hurry up Ya'll!! I need people underneath me.

brlinkwcc

Anyone from the Socal area going to the Oct 24th class and would like a ride, just PM me. I'll be driving out the 23rd.....

flygirl579

Just looking for some feedback here... had a 'tentative' interview scheduled back in July but was told my resume 'needed to be reviewed by a supervisor before the interview is approved'... never heard anything back one way or another (later found out the lady I was talking to quit???). Then went to a career fair in Sept, filled out the pre-interview screening form and was told that 'we're going to try and get you out to Salt Lake'... never heard anything back. I've been up front about check failures and everyone I've talked to has said that's not a deal breaker... what do I have to do to hear something back (even if it's a 'thanks but no thanks')?? Thanks for any suggestions.

clearprop

Did you talk to Camille? I think that is the lady's name. I'd be surprised if she left the company.

props4ever

Was it claire simpson?

Same thing happened to me.... but finally I did get a thanks no thanks letter. Or maybe you are possibly still in the running. Seems to be a little chaos in the hiring department at the moment.

Lawn

Did you actually interview out in Utah? I received an e-mail inviting me back in 6 months for a second interview. I thought my first interview went great and was kind of shocked that I wasn't offered the job. Did your no thanks letter offer another time to interview?

Aztec1

Could someone PM me the contact info for Camille? I had to reschedule an interview and lost the contact info.


Thanks