Turbosina

MH was LAX and FAT, not the West Coast...

amcnd

Should have made that clear BV is the west coast guy.. great guy.. MH.. blaaaa

Broncofan

I don't know if you work at Skywest or not but they count days, not trips. If you miss a 4 day trip then it's 4 days.. therefore if you miss a 4 day and 3 day, you miss 7days but 2 trips. The original post said 7 days. so that's my opinion

Tippy

correction: 7 OCCURRENCES

and that was from BV

amcnd

This is the way i look at it. There are the same 10-15 people calling out all the things that is wrong at SkyWest union vs not.. SkyWest has 4530 pilot. If there were major issues, (aka pilots fired everyday, disciplinary action, ect) we would have a revolt online. You just dont hear it.. and if Sapa felt that. There are plenty very volcal alpa supporters that would be on here telling everyone to watch out. That just isn’t happening..

Broncofan

I never said I was pro alpa. In fact I don't think alpa is good for a regional. Conflict of interest if you ask me. But I was just stating that number of days to be terminated seemed rediculous. But turns out he was talking about occurrences.

rickair7777

I understood that the pendulum was about to swing back a bit... the company was tolerating ever-increasing scheduling hijinks from a certain demographic of new hires who came with an entitlement assumption that their personal convenience always comes first.

The attendance crackdown of late was targeted at a small group of pilots. The need to document a history of progressive discipline led to the CP emails and phone calls... those were not actually intended to harass the average pilot, they are just necessary to build a lengthy paper-trail on chronic abusers who need escalating discipline prior to termination.

Probably going to be a few more examples to come.

Of course the root of all this is the staffing situation... which is only going to get worse from here on out. SKW has enough problems even without taking on more flying.

Check Complete

I don't have the exact numbers, but a reputable SAPA rep said that SkyWest terminated more pilots in the last 12 months than all of the other ALPA represented regionals combined. It was from details from the disciplinary committee report.

Management is incredible at the hush hush procedures.......

At will employment, means just that!

amcnd

Once again if that was the case. It would be out there spreading like wild flowers... unless someone can produce something with strong evidence its all just banter.. Trust me. If that was factual i would make sure everyone knows the facts..

hawk21

Word in the school house last week was the planes that were gonna be ordered for DFW got put on the back burner by Bombardier. It's in the works I think though.