Originally Posted by disillusioned

Let me preface this by saying I am being sincere. NVUS, what is your feeling from Mecca? Does everyone there really, truly feel that we are on top of our game? Nobody looks around and thinks there has to be some things we can do better? AS thinks that scheduling 11 hour duty days, with 3-4 hours of that sitting around in a base hub (SFO, SEA, MSP, DEN) is an "efficient use of all resources". Is there a feeling that leadership is using "personal and corporate integrity" by not negotiating after the contract is up like previously agreed to? Does KH think all crew members are being treated with "fairness and consistency" with the current PBS awards.

We are supposed to be the cream of the crop. Isn't that what we are told when we used to be negotiating?? Are we all supposed to just be complacent that since everyone else sucks, we just don't suck as bad? That's not what I signed up for and it makes me sad of what the leadership has done to this once proud pilot group. But please tell me that your comment above is not where we are moving towards as a company. "I don't like you pointing out that we are not living up to the high standards we set as a company, so go somewhere else??"

Sad days indeed....

Originally Posted by kfahmi

They announced a PDX 175 base today to handle the Alaska flying.

Originally Posted by amcnd

And a SEA 175 Base and more SEA CRJ crews.. On the MX side they posted Line MX base in DTW...

Originally Posted by avi8tor4life

A DVR a few weeks ago showed the base growing to 199 Ca/Fo pairs from 148

Originally Posted by kfahmi

They announced a PDX 175 base today to handle the Alaska flying.

Originally Posted by disillusioned

Here are the overall numbers for the past 6 months (Aug-Jan) I don't really trust the numbers the company puts out so I have been keeping my own

Aug - 23 Total (12 Capt, 11 FO) 3356 Total pilots
Sep - 26 Total (14 Capt, 12 FO) 3366 Total pilots
Oct - 37 Total (21 Capt, 16 FO) 3398 Total pilots
Nov - 28 Total (18 Capt, 10 FO) 3398 Total pilots
Dec - 25 Total (17 Capt, 8 FO) 3411 Total pilots
Jan - 27 Total (14 Capt, 13 FO) 3433 Total pilots

So in August we had 3,335 pilots and currently we have 3,433 so 98 more pilots on property. We lost 166 over that span, so I would assume we have averaged hiring about 44 per month?? Some of these could be cadets that are on the seniority list but not on property.

Also, some interesting number of which group is leaving. These numbers are based on their number at the time they left.

Under 1K - 31 total (All CA, including a top 10 line flying pilot)
1,000 - 2,000 - 70 (Mostly CA, Some senior FO's)
2,000 - 3,000 - 41 (Some Jr CA, Mostly FO's)
3,000 and up - 22 (FO's)

My assumption is that 3,000 and up group realized that SkyWest has become just another regional and they were looking at a 6 year upgrade. Maybe they enjoyed that brief bump in pay on the Bro, but then realized what that vote cost this pilot group and bailed.

Originally Posted by rickair7777

I think 117 had a big impact, but also concur that Anita is leaving a LOT of efficiency on the table due to pure laziness/narrow-mindedness/incompetence in CS. They DESPERATELY need to upgrade to windows 98 and pentium processors

One of our small bases had a incident recently where apparently a new-hire CS person was assigned the task of building pairings for the next month. She was apparently a bit obtuse and not supervised well, and since it required more work and mental horsepower to figure out overnights, she built an entire month using only locals with no or almost no multiday trips (possible since this was a satellite base, not a hub). Nobody noticed until it was too late...lot of peed-off commuters blew half their paychecks on hotels that month.