Very good news indeed!
Iām about 250 flight hours and 6 months away from my airline minimums. This gives me hope things will be looking even better by the time I get there!
Some context to this announcement: SkyWest sent home roughly 250 folks from training last March. Those employees were on property and have been getting paid since being sent homeā¦although at a reduced rate. The announcement referenced above and subsequent email that went out was to those trainees who were sent home in the middle of their training.
There are additional folks (several hundred??) who received conditional job offers (CJO) and class dates for last year prior to COVID changing the world. All those class dates were cancelled in mid-March and have yet to be rescheduled. Furthermore, for those who had CJOs and class dates (Iām in this group), we have not heard whether or not our class dates will be rescheduled at some point in 2021 alongside those who were sent home. In other words, this announcement is only addressing those who were already on property last March.
This is excited news, yes. Trust meā¦I want more than anybody for training to resume. But this should not be confused with SkyWest opening hiring, interviewing, and training new folks.
Trey,
While I appreciate the clarification the post was simply titled āEncouraging Newsā and that it is. While no new hiring is happening (yet), I guarantee there wonāt be until those who started their training are brought in first and thatās what has begun.
Adam
That is fantastic news. United just put out a large bid with numerous new captain positions in it.
That is fantastic news!
Hey, thatās Grizwald the Bear! I think Iāve seen him once or twice in Trenton!
More? Sure why not! 
I like seeing this!
Frontier and ATP Pathway
Whoa, direct to LCC with 1500 hours?
Alex,
That is the plan for eligible ATP instructors. To be clear, not everybody will qualify for this, but those who excel can apply for the program.
Chris
Alex,
Although the wording makes it sound like it, itās not a āflowā like you would assume like the regionals have with majors. For example, PSA has a flow with American so as long as you stay and be patient at PSA eventually you have a job with American without even have to interviewing. Thatās not the case hereā¦ Itās a great opportunity to possibly get to frontier at 1500 hours but itās definitely not a guaranteed job after completing 1500 which the word flow kind of implies. Select CFIs get the opportunity to interview with Frontier upon reaching 1500.
-Hannah
Thanks, yes I understand that there are no guarantees and only a few will get it. But was there anything like this pre Covid? Seems like for the few selected it would be a huge boost to their career.
To my knowledge, there were no programs like this available pre-covid, although I am not sure the two are related.
Hi Chris,
I think the exciting part of this program is that for a few select folks, the chance of flying big jets out of ATP went from 0 to more than 0. Itās something that Iāve never thought possible before.
Alex
This is all very exciting! Iām glad to see that things are starting to turn around 
