Q for skywest pilots

[blee256]

At Skywest ......

1) do they pay block or better?

2) do they have trip/duty rigs?

3) What do they pay for Deadheads? 100%? 50%?

4) What do they pay for Cancellations due to MX, WX, or crew change?

thanks.

[bike21]

Originally Posted by blee256

At Skywest ......

1) do they pay block or better?

****** yes


2) do they have trip/duty rigs?

***** don't know what this is yet. I probably should!


3) What do they pay for Deadheads? 100%? 50%?

******* 100%


4) What do they pay for Cancellations due to MX, WX, or crew change?

****** I'm pretty we still get paid?! For instance I do know that if I am flying with a check airman and he needs to do a line check or IOE, then I get still get paid for that trip even though I was 'bumped'. Junior man pay is good too, time & half pay.

thanks.

Hope that helps. Its pretty cool about the block or better pay. Nothing beats getting there early and still getting paid the full price. Or being late and STILL making more money! However, that hurts our performance reward and company name, so on time and early is still the way to go!

[jdflight]

Junior man doesn't exist with PBS, man. There's no more open time. Only swapped trips.

[viper548]

1) do they pay block or better?
Yes. It's leg by leg.
2) do they have trip/duty rigs?
No trip rig. Duty rig is 1:2 and after 12 hrs duty it's 1:1.
3) What do they pay for Deadheads? 100%? 50%?
100% scheduled block.
4) What do they pay for Cancellations due to MX, WX, or crew change?
100% for cancelled legs. If they change the schedule you get paid for what you flew or what the original schedule paid, whichever is higher.

[Bluto]

4.) "If they change the schedule you get paid for what you flew or what the original schedule paid, whichever is higher."
Unless you're on reserve, in which case cancellations magically become "reflow to a later flight after a 3-hour sit"...or something. SkyWest has great work-rules unless you're on reserve.

[Ralgha]

Originally Posted by jdflight

Junior man doesn't exist with PBS, man. There's no more open time. Only swapped trips.

I've seen no change in the amount of open time after the implementation of PBS. In other words, there is still open time.

Junior manning will exist no matter what bidding system is used. They run out of reserves and have a trip to cover (for whatever reason), they'll try to junior man someone.

[Ophir]

Originally Posted by Bluto

SkyWest has great work-rules unless you're on reserve.

I'm sitting reserve

[Bluto]

Hmmm, yeah, sorry about that.

[bike21]

Originally Posted by Ophir

I'm sitting reserve

How long have you been on reserve? I start reserve in December @ ORD and am trying to get a guess on how long I will stay on reserve. Thanks!

[joel_MQY]

Originally Posted by bike21

How long have you been on reserve? I start reserve in December @ ORD and am trying to get a guess on how long I will stay on reserve. Thanks!

Welcome to ORD!

[bike21]

Originally Posted by joel_MQY

Welcome to ORD!

thanks! i hope get denver in the spring/summer (its home) but ORD is going to be fun this winter. not only a great way to break into airline life, but lots of good people to hang out with. are you SkyWest?

[blee256]

Originally Posted by Bluto

skyWest has great work-rules unless you're on reserve.

I think no matter where you sit reserve it sucks...


thanks guys for answering.

and BIKE21, are you a newhire on the jet?

[bike21]

yep on the jet. i started indoc back on 9/29 and just finished my checkride last week. first IOE trip is on sunday! can't wait!

[Ophir]

Originally Posted by bike21

How long have you been on reserve? I start reserve in December @ ORD and am trying to get a guess on how long I will stay on reserve. Thanks!

I was hired in May and still on reserve here in SLC on the Bro. Things are moving fairly quickly but they have decreased the number of lines on the Bro too. I think I'm 46 out of 65 with only 40 lines as of last month. But PBS is coming YIKES!

[bike21]

I have heard mixed reviews about PBS, being so new I don't really have an opinion yet I guess. Hopefully the Bro lines increase again. I was bummed to hear that SLC lost some flying.

[mrivc211]

I think we're just waiting to see what Delta is going to do. Same thing happend with United when they filed. PBS takes a while to learn. I still prefer hard lines over it even though I've gotten 20 and 20 days off per month the last two months. I still don't like it. I've heard of guys getting FN which stands for forced flying. The thing that I don't like about it is you don't really know anything until it magically decides what you have at the end. If your seniority is good, then great, but you still aren't guaranteed anything because it does some weird and wacky stuff. I guess it is working out for me now, but it took 4-5 months to learn the thing. 3 of those being real bids thus giving up QOL during those months. I hope we(SGU) made the right decision by going this way.

[Ophir]

I flew with a captain the other day who was on the commitee to bring it to SKYW. He was ragging on it pretty heavily. He knows how to uses it but he still was complaining that it took 3 days to figure out the bid vs. 8 hours now. And how it was still just a computer that didn't know the what the user wanted. So, in the event that everything you want in your bid doesn't work out, it just gives you a bunch of crap. It doesn't understand that you may have had some preferences in those layers that were really important to you. I think it is all in the learning curve. Can I schedule some tutoring O?

[Lee D]

We are also going to lose Grand Junction to the Jet in January. (I believe.)
That was about 8 round trips a day, so that's gonna hurt the EMB lines too. Rats! IMO That's the best breakfast in the SLC EMB system. Good Gym just around the corner too.
Do you get much flying these days Ophir? When I was on reserve they used all of the reserve guys quite a bit. (Lots of TDY in Houston.) Seems to be pretty slow for the reserve guys in SLC on both sides of the house.

[Bluto]

I've heard the SLC brasilia guys (CA's at least) are flying 110 hours a month. Maybe they are properly staffed on the FO side. I don't know what's going to happen with the EMBs in SLC, though when Jerry finally decides to consolidate (adios ASA) there should be more jet flying. Of course, all of this assumes DAL doesn't liquidate...good times.

[Lee D]

All the reserve Capts I know are keeping really, really busy. As far as I can tell the reserve F/O's in SLC for both aircraft are not flying much.

[mrivc211]

I know 4 of the 5 reserve captains in my base and all have said that they've broken gaurantee since they've been captains the last six months. I invited ancrew over for dinner the other nighta nd the FO from SAN said in 3 months he was called 3 times on reserve. He said the lineholders found this out and now they bid reserve and he gets a stinking line. Haaa! Go Figure!

[Ophir]

Man, I don't fly at all. I went six weeks awhile ago. Thank god the mountain biking was good.

[E_Dawg]

Six weeks? Good God man, did you even remember what a brasilia looks like?

[bike21]

Originally Posted by Ophir

Thank god the mountain biking was good.

Word! That is part of my master plan joining the the airlines. I hope for enough time off to get back to racing again. But six weeks is a long time for no flying! Especially right now being so new!

IOE is going well, my Captain and FA are cool and good to be around. Up in YWG (Winnipeg) right now. And its COLD!!!

[Ophir]

Yeah, I raced all summer (road) and that was coming off a May 5th hired date. My problem has been that since I was hired I moved to Park City and this 90 minute call-out is killing me. When I was in SLC I could be on a ride and make it to the airport in time. Now I am lucky if I have ######, shower and shave and make it to the airport. Bummer for the fitness.