Skywest v2.0
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We will never see Republic rates or more importantly their rules. They will convince us that all the other carriers do credit or better so that will never leave. We might see 2 maybe 3% and probably some BS bonus program that will evaporate in a year when the company claims hard times.
The heavy sell will come from SAPA with help from the training department, just like always.
And the pilot group will swallow every drop and sing to the heavens with their golden bugles!
We will undoubtedly squander our best opportunity to lead this industry.
We are our own worst enemies!
I will be astonished if it's any different!
The heavy sell will come from SAPA with help from the training department, just like always.
And the pilot group will swallow every drop and sing to the heavens with their golden bugles!
We will undoubtedly squander our best opportunity to lead this industry.
We are our own worst enemies!
I will be astonished if it's any different!
The pilots will pass the first BS offer, by a slim margin (~58%) Thanks to the hard working efforts of SAPA and the training department doing a hard sell job and the heavy rationing of koolaid.
Until this pilot group wakes up, and makes some real systemic changes in how we are represented. Nothing. Will. Change.
Same as it ever was. Same as it ever was.
Furthermore.....To hell with matching Republic or Endeavor. Pay rates are meaningless without substantial improvements to work rules and QOL.
Throwing money at people will only work temporary. The exodus will continue as long as people are forced to work 95+ hours, minimum days off, and uncommuteable schedules every. Single. Month. With no relief, ever.
Throwing money at people will only work temporary. The exodus will continue as long as people are forced to work 95+ hours, minimum days off, and uncommuteable schedules every. Single. Month. With no relief, ever.
The challenge that all regional managements need to face is how to keep the pipeline full with quality applicants, because if we aren't scraping the bottom of the barrel yet in new hire candidates, we are certainly beginning to at least SEE the bottom of that barrel, and that is being reflected in higher washout(or at least wash back) rates in training, which is not an insignificant expense.
But getting new hires in the door is only part of the problem, because unless you make the prospect of them becoming a Skywest captain more economically viable, you will still lose them to the LCCs once they have a thousand hours of SIC, if it's going to be economically more advantageous for them to move on and upgrade to Captain in the LCC, albeit a few years later.
And we haven't even hit the crest of the age forced retirements in the legacy airlines, which won't happen until 2022-23, although the numbers will continue to increase until then.
So unless there is a major recession,a war, or another 9/11 (God forbid) the current mental model that management has been using for decades, that there surely must be LEGIONS of aspiring airline pilots out there that would LOVE to come work cheap, is going to come crashing down around their heads.
Unless they change that mindset, a lot of regionals are going to find their work forces collapse like soap bubbles (Great Lakes airlines, RIP) as staffing woes due to inadequate replacements causes quality of life to deteriorate to the point for those remaining that they too look elsewhere, where they WILL be in demand by managements that are more enlightened.
Short term, classes can be kept filled by hiring bonuses and treating newbie trainees better, and with increased training you may even get MOST of these people to the line, but long term - and by long term I mean less than a year - if management can't provide a better QOL for senior FOs and junior (non-lifer) captains, it is going to get grim. That's my prediction anyway.
Whether management has the good sense to see past their historical model to today's reality is anyone's guess.
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Personally, I'm out of here if they try and push another 1% a year then try to convince us it's industry leading.
If not, a lateral move would be cutting off your nose to spite your face. Although Spirit is hiring FO's, and that's not lateral.
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What’s throwing a wrench is company breaking the law.
Edit. Re: email notifications for short call outside a rap.
Edit. Re: email notifications for short call outside a rap.
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QOL improvements would have to be coupled with hiring/retaining more pilots. That won’t happen in this industry right now.. how many more pilots would we need to guarantee 15 days off a month??? 10% more?? Who knows. Even if we match the other two. Attrition will stay high. Pilots market right now...
Attrition will stay high.
Spirit 2-3yr F/O pay equal to 20yr SKYWEST capt.
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