Skywest
08-31-2013, 04:05 PM
#2941
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Aug 2013
Position: 737 FO
Posts: 239
Don't put in your two weeks notice at your current employer until you absolutely have to and your class date is confirmed.
09-01-2013, 08:31 AM
#2942
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Joined APC: Mar 2009
Position: Lunar Lander Commander
Posts: 158
I hope.....
I'll be paranoid for the next 28 days that they may go on hiring freeze again.
09-01-2013, 12:01 PM
#2943
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Joined APC: Nov 2012
Posts: 611
I doubt that will happen. With new airframes arriving and guys leaving for bigger and better things, I think it will be a long time before SkyWest lets up on hiring again.
Good time to get in.
09-01-2013, 12:37 PM
#2944
Line Holder
Joined APC: May 2013
Posts: 92
Do you think new hires will be hired directly on to the EMB-175? When are classes for the EJet due to start? I currently fly the 170/175 for another company, but I'm only on first year pay and Skywest seems like a much better place to be.
09-01-2013, 12:44 PM
#2945
Dumb Pilot
Joined APC: Apr 2013
Position: Broke
Posts: 784
Right now there are only 3 FO's on the FO side of the 175 bid lost that don't have seat locks or after dates. I think most of the 175 FO's will be new hires when they start. Some say FO's aren't bidding it because they don't know the pay and seat lock but I haven't talked to a single FO that wants to transition over to it.
09-01-2013, 01:21 PM
#2946
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Joined APC: Aug 2013
Position: 737 FO
Posts: 239
Congrats on getting hired then, I hope everything works out well for you with OO. Enjoy the ride.
09-01-2013, 01:43 PM
#2947
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Joined APC: Jul 2008
Posts: 4,238
Don't think that new hires will go to the E175 until SkyWest takes over training. FSI doing it right now... So i would guess fall of 2014..
09-01-2013, 04:37 PM
#2948
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Joined APC: May 2009
Position: Another RJ FO
Posts: 1,272
There won't be new hires on it for a while. The FAA will be all over the training center and I doubt Skywest will want to risk new hire failures during the first months. Even when they do start allowing new hires in it will still be the most senior airplane eventually. New hires will be competing with current Brasilia and CRJ FOs for those training slots. The first bids will go junior but once more bases, a pay scale and seat locks are announced it will go senior.
09-01-2013, 08:31 PM
#2949
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Joined APC: May 2009
Posts: 2,035
There won't be new hires on it for a while. The FAA will be all over the training center and I doubt Skywest will want to risk new hire failures during the first months. Even when they do start allowing new hires in it will still be the most senior airplane eventually. New hires will be competing with current Brasilia and CRJ FOs for those training slots. The first bids will go junior but once more bases, a pay scale and seat locks are announced it will go senior.
You're basing this on what exactly?
09-02-2013, 06:39 AM
#2950
Dumb Pilot
Joined APC: Apr 2013
Position: Broke
Posts: 784
I really don't see the thinking behind it going senior unless there is a lot of sjs. The last bid 15 of the awarded 30 were here less than a year and a half
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