Skywest v2.0
10-06-2016, 12:23 PM
#3651
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Oct 2013
Posts: 516
Listen....
Its a smart business decision for the company to do it in two parts.
1. It saves them cash. Simple enough and you could stop right there.
2. You now have two people in close contact who can use each other to study. The small majority of time this doesn't work out is worth the positive outcome if it does work. Worse case scenario you get your own room because it doesn't work out.
If you want a single because you want "leisure time" or so you can be away from everyone you should expect to get a little ribbing for it.
Staying in a room with someone else doesn't make you "less professional".
Kids these days.......
Its a smart business decision for the company to do it in two parts.
1. It saves them cash. Simple enough and you could stop right there.
2. You now have two people in close contact who can use each other to study. The small majority of time this doesn't work out is worth the positive outcome if it does work. Worse case scenario you get your own room because it doesn't work out.
If you want a single because you want "leisure time" or so you can be away from everyone you should expect to get a little ribbing for it.
Staying in a room with someone else doesn't make you "less professional".
Kids these days.......
1) It saves the company cash.
So what?!?! You know what would also save the company cash? Not paying for hotel rooms at all. Not paying a salary while in training. Would you support that too? Just because it "saves them cash"? How about double occupancy for all overnights for everybody your entire career at SKW? Following your logic, that should be OK too.
News Flash, Its the not pilots' responsibility to save the company money. I'm pretty sure SkyWest is now the ONLY regional left forcing grown adult professionals to bunk-up with complete strangers. This ain't college folks.
2) You don't need to share a bedroom and sleep 5 feet away from your classmate to be "close contact" to study. Seriously? That's just dumb. If you want a study partner, walk out of your room, and go knock on your neighbors door 10 feet away.
Staying in a room with someone else doesn't make you "less professional".
Yes, that's the exact message it sends. That you're not worth the $$, and the company is too cheap to treat you like an adult and provide you with your own room.
10-06-2016, 12:55 PM
#3653
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Oct 2013
Posts: 516
But please, continue defending the company, while making personal insults in every post.
10-06-2016, 01:57 PM
#3655
Ich bin Pilot von Beruf
Joined APC: Aug 2016
Position: CRJ Kapitän
Posts: 615
Frankly having my own room in training never concerned me. I'm more frustrated with pay. Why are our brethren at Envoy and Endeavor being paid $20k retention bonuses while we are not? How about we address that issue. New hires will flock to the AA wholly owneds now (it's already happening FYI). And lets not delude ourselves our latest classes have not been seeing the same impressive numbers as they were a few months before summer...so I've heard.
10-06-2016, 02:03 PM
#3656
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Jul 2013
Position: 175 CA
Posts: 1,544
Frankly having my own room in training never concerned me. I'm more frustrated with pay. Why are our brethren at Envoy and Endeavor being paid $20k retention bonuses while we are not? How about we address that issue. New hires will flock to the AA wholly owneds now (it's already happening FYI). And lets not delude ourselves our latest classes have not been seeing the same impressive numbers as they were a few months before summer...so I've heard.
10-06-2016, 03:02 PM
#3657
Man in a Suitcase
Joined APC: Apr 2015
Posts: 180
We're still averaging about 60 new hires a month. Some months were closer to the 100 mark like last winter, but it hasn't really slowed down. The only difference is two new hire classes of 30ish per month rather than one class of 60.
10-06-2016, 03:50 PM
#3658
New Hire
Joined APC: Aug 2016
Posts: 2
Hello everyone. I'm interviewing next week. If everything goes smoothly, would I expect a class date in November or December?
10-06-2016, 07:22 PM
#3659
Reserve Life
Joined APC: Mar 2016
Position: A320 FO
Posts: 98
Because Skywest isn't a dumpster on fire , we fill classes. Why give bonuses when you can fill classes? As anyone knows a retention bonus is very unlikely to stop you from moving on, it might stop a few going to a LCC but if Delta calls 20k isn't going to stop anyone.
10-06-2016, 07:34 PM
#3660
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Oct 2015
Posts: 472
Because Skywest isn't a dumpster on fire , we fill classes. Why give bonuses when you can fill classes? As anyone knows a retention bonus is very unlikely to stop you from moving on, it might stop a few going to a LCC but if Delta calls 20k isn't going to stop anyone.
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