Skywest v2.0
04-20-2016, 10:58 AM
#813
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Aug 2007
Position: I pilot
Posts: 2,049
04-20-2016, 11:23 AM
#814
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Mar 2015
Posts: 922
There's plenty of 175 flying if you hold a line. The reason guys want to come over is because of the vastly better trip quality in the 175 and the lower block hour requirements.
A typical CRJ 4-day can involve 20 legs (my record is 23), crediting 18 hours. Given that CRJ guys are being required to fly 90 credit hours per month, some quick math shows that many CRJ guys are getting 11 days off with 90 hrs credit.
On the 175, a 4-day might involve 8 legs with 25 credit, with a requirement of 75 hrs/month. So you're working 12 days and off 18 days, while the RJ guy is doing just the opposite.
As my buddies on the 175 tell me, "It's like a totally different airline."
A typical CRJ 4-day can involve 20 legs (my record is 23), crediting 18 hours. Given that CRJ guys are being required to fly 90 credit hours per month, some quick math shows that many CRJ guys are getting 11 days off with 90 hrs credit.
On the 175, a 4-day might involve 8 legs with 25 credit, with a requirement of 75 hrs/month. So you're working 12 days and off 18 days, while the RJ guy is doing just the opposite.
As my buddies on the 175 tell me, "It's like a totally different airline."
04-20-2016, 11:52 AM
#815
Line Holder
Joined APC: May 2015
Posts: 58
How much flying is typically available to a new hire? I'm currently in DFW but planing on moving to Chicago once I start. Is it realistic to assume that a new hire can get 90+ hours a month? That would certainly help live on FO pay. I'm still months out so obviously a lot can change, but I'm just trying to get a general idea on how things are going right now.
04-20-2016, 12:09 PM
#816
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Jul 2013
Position: 175 CA
Posts: 1,544
How much flying is typically available to a new hire? I'm currently in DFW but planing on moving to Chicago once I start. Is it realistic to assume that a new hire can get 90+ hours a month? That would certainly help live on FO pay. I'm still months out so obviously a lot can change, but I'm just trying to get a general idea on how things are going right now.
04-20-2016, 12:33 PM
#817
New Hire
Joined APC: Dec 2015
Posts: 8
Yea they visit every month to interview and talk to new Transpac instructors about Skywest but these visits are for a possible purchase of the company. Pretty interesting that Skywest would be getting into the flight training business. Be interested to see what the dynamic would be for Skywest.
04-20-2016, 01:44 PM
#818
Line Holder
Joined APC: Feb 2016
Posts: 36
Yea they visit every month to interview and talk to new Transpac instructors about Skywest but these visits are for a possible purchase of the company. Pretty interesting that Skywest would be getting into the flight training business. Be interested to see what the dynamic would be for Skywest.
My guess is it would be an 'Inc' purchase not an 'airlines' purchase.
That keeps the waters less muddy.
04-20-2016, 03:25 PM
#819
Dumb Pilot
Joined APC: Apr 2013
Position: Broke
Posts: 784
Being there are a few management pilots here at SkyWest that own flight schools I highly doubt they would be buying transpac...
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