Skywest v2.0
03-20-2018, 10:25 AM
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Chuckles huh? Glad I can humor you. I find it sad really that you’re able to blow off statements regarding Skywest’s downhill slide and laugh about them. To me that that seems like the underlying problem at Skywest. There’s to few with kahunas big enough to fight for what you’re worth.
03-20-2018, 11:28 AM
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You really are that dense aren’t you, I’ve told you before there is not more to my story. Go ahead and call BV and ask him for yourself instead of trying to act like you know what you’re talking about. Now somehow I ran drugs on my day off, great story
03-20-2018, 11:29 AM
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This is one issue i want nothing to do with. Our lack of a policy is in my opinion a benefit to us. For instance last week i had my first missed commute in 2 years. called off and no issue, then caught up to my trip and took it back. If we had this standard policy then i would have been in trouble for not giving myself 2 options to get to work. I never give myself 2 options so would be violating the policy. I am not a repeat offender so will never hear about it. even if i had more missed commutes i would never about it.
I know personally there is WAY more to this situation.
I know personally there is WAY more to this situation.
03-20-2018, 11:38 AM
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There was a Skywest brasilia FO smuggling drugs a while ago and a Compass FO more recently.
03-20-2018, 11:49 AM
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I’ve been given a SAD when I have given myself 2 flights to get to work. My second option to SFO was hit with flow. I did not call off the trip and said I will get there as soon as I can. They didn’t have any reserves and my original flight departed 15 minutes late.
TG was sitting in crew support when the person was calling in. Gave himself more than 2 flights to go PDX-SEA. Weather rolled in and Horizon was canceling half of the flights and the other half were running really late and all full. Delta denied him the jump on a SkyWest operated flight because he did not know his PNR number. Last flight was a SkyWest CRJ that looked good but durin* boarding had a mechanical and needed to swap airplanes.
He did make the mistake by calling the Chief Pilot and not just calling off emergency. I made the same mistake commuting to SFO. Things you don’t really know to do when you are in your first 6 months at the airlines. He tried to do the right thing but in the end he got screwed. And yes he could have made the drive but from what I understand he took the train to Pdx and would have had to rent a car. Thought he could make the last flight but that went on mx. Due to the missed commute we had to cancel an Alaska BOI standup from SEA. TG wanted his head to roll to show Alaska we are serious...
The funny thing is the FO in question now works for Horizon. So we terminated him for Alaska and Alaska hires him...
TG was sitting in crew support when the person was calling in. Gave himself more than 2 flights to go PDX-SEA. Weather rolled in and Horizon was canceling half of the flights and the other half were running really late and all full. Delta denied him the jump on a SkyWest operated flight because he did not know his PNR number. Last flight was a SkyWest CRJ that looked good but durin* boarding had a mechanical and needed to swap airplanes.
He did make the mistake by calling the Chief Pilot and not just calling off emergency. I made the same mistake commuting to SFO. Things you don’t really know to do when you are in your first 6 months at the airlines. He tried to do the right thing but in the end he got screwed. And yes he could have made the drive but from what I understand he took the train to Pdx and would have had to rent a car. Thought he could make the last flight but that went on mx. Due to the missed commute we had to cancel an Alaska BOI standup from SEA. TG wanted his head to roll to show Alaska we are serious...
The funny thing is the FO in question now works for Horizon. So we terminated him for Alaska and Alaska hires him...
Lemons into lemonade though, I’m now based in PDX on the Q and will most likely upgrade and be able to hold PDX as a CA within the next year... hopefully
Last edited by Fixnem2Flyinem; 03-20-2018 at 12:15 PM.
03-20-2018, 12:13 PM
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Thanks, I’m very lucky that this happened in the current hiring environment. If It would have been 2012 or earlier, I’m fairly certain I wouldn’t be in the cockpit of a 121 carrier right now.
03-20-2018, 03:17 PM
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This is exactly why we need a policy that is applied uniformly, not being crushed when TG or some other Chief is ****ed. Or some other guy gets away with everything because he's a but kisser. The reason the company has it this way so they can use it to their advantage when want to target an individual. If the union drive ever gets any traction, the company will find out who's volunteering and punish them as they see fit because there is no policy.
03-20-2018, 04:40 PM
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Wasnt trying to accuse you of anything nefarious or sketchy. Popnfresh beat me to it. That is exactly what i was going to say as well as the sick calls. Was purely trying to get the point across that SKW doesn't can someone for one missed commute. TG wanted to make an example out of someone. Im also glad you landed on your feet so quickly without a long down time!
03-20-2018, 04:43 PM
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Wasnt trying to accuse you of anything nefarious or sketchy. Popnfresh beat me to it. That is exactly what i was going to say as well as the sick calls. Was purely trying to get the point across that SKW doesn't can someone for one missed commute. TG wanted to make an example out of someone. Im also glad you landed on your feet so quickly without a long down time!
03-20-2018, 05:37 PM
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Wasnt trying to accuse you of anything nefarious or sketchy. Popnfresh beat me to it. That is exactly what i was going to say as well as the sick calls. Was purely trying to get the point across that SKW doesn't can someone for one missed commute. TG wanted to make an example out of someone. Im also glad you landed on your feet so quickly without a long down time!
Not trying to knock SkyWest at all, it was a solid place I thought but I will be happy to go the rest of my career without running into the guy that wanted to make an example of me
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