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Old 03-24-2015, 11:51 AM
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Last years pay package was nothing more than a pay freeze. Factor in inflation and it was a pay cut.
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Old 03-24-2015, 12:54 PM
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Originally Posted by Squallrider
True those point towards concessionary, but when I look at what was passing around the same time I think we got out at about breakeven. Our hourly rate which is very important to me is still higher than most and we aren't capped to 4 year FO pay or 12 year CA pay like other places.

We def had the wool over our eyes if we knew what the company's plan was for the EMB, we thought we were helping the EMB guys out meanwhile that was just the little nudge of pilots they needed to pass it.

It could def have been a lot worse.
That is all our pay votes will ever be. Just enough to get 51%. Until we start wanting.. no demanding more, that is all we will ever get from SGU. We can't compare ourselves to a WO regional. We have 5 partners we fly for. We don't have all our eggs in one basket, and these same people who voted in concessions are now offering $20,000 per year or flow which we don't have. But when we have SAPA telling us to just take the reflow policy or else the company will just make the change anyways, I guess we get that defeatist attitude from our leadership.

Sounds like the EFB has just been announced at ASA. SAPA said their policy was uploaded to the SAPA site, but I don't see it anywhere.
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Old 03-24-2015, 02:47 PM
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Originally Posted by Squallrider
True those point towards concessionary, but when I look at what was passing around the same time I think we got out at about breakeven. Our hourly rate which is very important to me is still higher than most and we aren't capped to 4 year FO pay or 12 year CA pay like other places.

We def had the wool over our eyes if we knew what the company's plan was for the EMB, we thought we were helping the EMB guys out meanwhile that was just the little nudge of pilots they needed to pass it.

It could def have been a lot worse.
You're right Given what other garbage was passing around the same time, this is true
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Old 03-24-2015, 06:48 PM
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Originally Posted by Squallrider

reserve may or may not have ready added to the end depending on the day up to the point they would originally be released at anyway, therefor its the same work as if they wouldn't have been called in at the very most.
Wow, I didn't know airlines were still doing this since 117 began. I thought 117 prevented an airline from putting you on ready reserve after completing an assignment but apparently that is not the case at Skywest or Mesa.
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Old 03-24-2015, 08:10 PM
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Originally Posted by Systemized
Wow, I didn't know airlines were still doing this since 117 began. I thought 117 prevented an airline from putting you on ready reserve after completing an assignment but apparently that is not the case at Skywest or Mesa.
Adding RDY to the end of assignment happens nearly every day at SKW. Amazingly enough they've never once called me during RDY. I usually spend the time working on my other job (on my laptop at the SFO Starbucks), perched on the edge of my chair for the 4:00 pm shuttle to the employee parking lot. If anyone is in SFO's Terminal 2 on a given weekend around 3:00, stop by the Starbucks next to the Virgin ticket counter and say hi. I'll be the guy trying to pretend my phone doesn't exist
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Old 03-24-2015, 09:26 PM
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Originally Posted by kfahmi
Adding RDY to the end of assignment happens nearly every day at SKW. Amazingly enough they've never once called me during RDY.
The only time I was ever called on RDY was immediately after blocking in from a reserve assignment flight. My recommendation, leave soon enough that you're a solid 5-10 minutes down the highway by the end of your airport jail time. You can make it back, and pay to park in short term if you have to in :20.
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Old 03-24-2015, 09:39 PM
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Originally Posted by M20EPilot
The only time I was ever called on RDY was immediately after blocking in from a reserve assignment flight. My recommendation, leave soon enough that you're a solid 5-10 minutes down the highway by the end of your airport jail time. You can make it back, and pay to park in short term if you have to in :20.
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Old 03-25-2015, 03:55 AM
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Why did Skywest recently change their checklists? Just curious because the same was done at ASA.
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Old 03-25-2015, 05:22 AM
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Originally Posted by Whiplash6
Why did Skywest recently change their checklists? Just curious because the same was done at ASA.

Because that's the way they've always done it. No crashes as of late, so they have to change things up to see if we truly are robots.
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Old 03-25-2015, 05:55 AM
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Because that's the way they've always done it. No crashes as of late, so they have to change things up to see if we truly are robots.
Yeah same here. "It flows better" they say. Well you know, the old one flowed pretty good to us after 8 years.

So getting worked up over this being a sign of a pre-merger would be hysterical I take it?
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