SkyWest BOD, interesting.

[Jon Rivoli]

Not the bunch of St. George yokels you might have thought, particularly Steven F. Udvar-Hazy. Chairman and CEO of ILFC.

 

[WalterSobchak]

Not the bunch of St. George yokels you might have thought, particularly Steven F. Udvar-Hazy. Chairman and CEO of ILFC.

The business school at Dixie State College in SGU is the named The Udvar-Hazy School of Business. I believe he donated a significant amount of money to the program and had it named for his parents.

 

[propsarebest]

Not the bunch of St. George yokels you might have thought, particularly Steven F. Udvar-Hazy. Chairman and CEO of ILFC.

True, but he is "one of them".

 

[Brasilia Flyer]

True, but he is "one of them".

You're right about that! He's one of those "smart guys" calling the shots at SKYW.

 

[jea]

its so funny to me how many people hate skywest because of our sucess... the company is managed incredibly well.... stability in this industry speaks....

 

[EMB170Pilot]

ditto about RAH as well

 

[OPECJet]

We hate SKW and RAH because you fly too cheap. Not because your company is successful. Much of you company's success came from shafting pilot groups who flew for what they were worth, or former mainline flying...

EDIT.... "Hate" is probably too strong of a word in that context. I don't hate, or even dislike any individual pilot on either seniority list. I do however, and I'm not alone, dislike a pilot group who exchanges substandard wages and work rules for growth. I also applaud the RAH pilots who will hopefully negotiate a contract that reflects the aircraft they fly. You Skywest folks on the other hand don't seem too interested in that. As evidenced by they nay voters in the last union drive. That would have been a good place to start.

 

[WAVIT Inbound]

We hate SKW and RAH because you fly too cheap. Not because your company is successful. Much of you company's success came from shafting pilot groups who flew for what they were worth, or former mainline flying...

EDIT.... "Hate" is probably too strong of a word in that context. I don't hate, or even dislike any individual pilot on either seniority list. I do however, and I'm not alone, dislike a pilot group who exchanges substandard wages and work rules for growth. I also applaud the RAH pilots who will hopefully negotiate a contract that reflects the aircraft they fly. You Skywest folks on the other hand don't seem too interested in that. As evidenced by they nay voters in the last union drive. That would have been a good place to start.

And what airline with superior pay and work rules do you work for? If you think Skywest is successful by undercutting the industry you are crazy. Substandard work rules and wages? Compared to who? You hate SkW and RAH because they have found a way to be successful in a tough industry without giving substandard pay and work rules, simple as that.

 

[7dustfan]

We hate SKW and RAH because you fly too cheap. Not because your company is successful. Much of you company's success came from shafting pilot groups who flew for what they were worth, or former mainline flying...

EDIT.... "Hate" is probably too strong of a word in that context. I don't hate, or even dislike any individual pilot on either seniority list. I do however, and I'm not alone, dislike a pilot group who exchanges substandard wages and work rules for growth. I also applaud the RAH pilots who will hopefully negotiate a contract that reflects the aircraft they fly. You Skywest folks on the other hand don't seem too interested in that. As evidenced by they nay voters in the last union drive. That would have been a good place to start.

Have you looked at Pinnacle, Comair and Mesaba's CRJ900 payscales? Not quite as good as SkyWests but wait a minute- THOSE ARE ALL UNION. How the hell? Maybe SkyWest is a good place!?!?!?

 

[yahooair]

my skywest roomate made alllllllot more $$$ than i did on both 2nd year pay.
he made almost 20K more than i did and he had an avg. 14-15 days off a month..about half his sched time and a half and bids with check airman and getting kicked off, picked up other trips and made double time.
We cant do that where i am at. WTF??
i support alpa, but i notice some jealousy from other pilots cant we cant make double time and a non union carrier can,,,and that carrier is makng great money,
time to look at those pay scales people.
skywest isnt the lowest and they have no union.
lets all stop skywest bashing and get on with our lives, those guys dont seem to put other companies down as much as all of us non skyw pilots do..wonder why that is?