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08-25-2022, 06:48 PM

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Skywest captains to $200/hr...

Somehow Skywest, with only LARP bargaining rights, has secured a TA with $200 captain rates.

Percents are getting absurd. Perhaps it's time to measure our raises in decibels.

08-25-2022, 07:00 PM

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You’re going hyperbolic about the 2026 rates at max seniority after three annual 2.5% raises?

Cool

08-25-2022, 07:12 PM

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You’re going hyperbolic about the 2026 rates at max seniority after three annual 2.5% raises?

Cool

If the TA does pass (they can increase all pay rates by another $30 from the chart listed above) they’ll be back to the drawing board in a few months because pay isn’t everything and the Captain attrition won’t settle down when the best QOL update is a whopping 12 off per month, 13 for 31 days in a calendar month.

08-25-2022, 07:31 PM

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Agreed, that’s what the CEO-class would call an inflection point in the business model.

09-03-2022, 03:54 PM

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That TA was withdrawn unilaterally after Mesa fired a shot across the SGU bow with 100hr new hire and 215hr CA LOA the next day. It now looks like Horizon has matched the new RJ pay scales with 90/215 up to 221 in 2024.
Interesting times.

09-03-2022, 04:16 PM

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They’re going to want Tumi suitcases too.

09-03-2022, 04:27 PM

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Those rates will kill off the regionals even faster. Attracts talent but is not sustainable. SKs instinct about regionals being dead in 5 years just might come
to fruition.

09-03-2022, 04:43 PM

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Those rates will kill off the regionals even faster. Attracts talent but is not sustainable. SKs instinct about regionals being dead in 5 years just might come
to fruition.

They could very well. It's mostly to match the LCC/ULCCs that are gutting the regionals from both seats, time will tell.

09-03-2022, 06:36 PM

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Those rates will kill off the regionals even faster. Attracts talent but is not sustainable. SKs instinct about regionals being dead in 5 years just might come
to fruition.

SkyWest can afford it. Not going into the financials but from my understanding from the earnings calls that I’ve listened to, they can afford to pay a lot more than the withdrawn TA rates, it’s a well run shop, but times have changed and pilots are no longer a surplus, so now all those years of treating their Captains like dog$hit finally caught up.

It’s mostly the same management regime that told their Captains “if you don’t like it, you can leave”.

09-07-2022, 05:58 AM

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Those rates will kill off the regionals even faster. Attracts talent but is not sustainable. SKs instinct about regionals being dead in 5 years just might come
to fruition.

The rates are designed to allow a orderly death of the regionals. They need to keep the flights moving short term. Long term there are different plans in place. I believe your CEO plans on cutting UAL’s regional fleet by ⅔’s.