Sky Regional Interview

[57Driver]

Just wondering if anyone has done an interview at Sky Regional? Just wondering about the interview process and what the minimums are for Embraer or Dash Captain? Thanks

[Inverted2]

Minumums are: The willingness to work for rock bottom wages and lower the bar for professional pilots across Canada.

If we all decided not to work for this SCAB airline which was formed by greedy upper management to take away good paying jobs (Jazz) they would have to ante up and pay some decent wages.

Sorry to hijack your thread. I think you should really think about it before applying to this place.

[kingtwo]

+1

SCABS!!!!!!!!!!!

[170 to xray]

+2

[esp803]

good paying jobs (Jazz)

Good one....

but +3

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[learcapt]

Inverted, do your bitching about your shit job and life you probably have somewhere else.

The guy was asking for some info and once again the whiners in this community have struck again. Get over it retard.

[ZBBYLW]

Learcapt,

Inverted may not have written it in the most diplomatic tone but could you disagree?

What I find humorous is the fact guys are going to SkyRegional to try and beef up their resume so they can obtain the very jobs they are undercutting out of the market place. A sky regional pilot is flying the exact same routes in the exact same planes earning lots less money, no pension etc... Perhaps if people keep reeducating people who are considering to do this they may understand.

[wordstwice]

The point is the original poster was asking for some information and once again it turns into a mud slinging festival. The people who object to Sky Regional T+C's have had their say on a different thread so lets not hijack every single thread to just vent your frustrations. Its not unlike the Porter threads, anytime anyone wants some info about Porter it turns into a thread about how they are losing money and Deluce is lying to everyone regarding their profitability.

And then to call people Scabs is simply unnecessary. On one hand you want Pilots to look out for each other by not accepting low wages and then on the other you become an internet bully.

Anyways, I think that's what LearCapt was trying to get across. If you have information for the original poster then great, if not, start your own thread.

[Changes in Latitudes]

Me reading this thread:

[Stu Pidasso]

This crap has been going one, since time began. Some of the biggest whiners at AC, bought themselves a job at Jetsgo. The lowest group (in my opinion) are the Retired Captains drawing a pension and taking a job at SR.

Nothing like "giving back to the industry," or "leaving the Profession in better shape than you found it." They enjoyed 3 decades of the best this industry has ever offered and now they pull this.

Thanks guys, you will be remembered.

[tailgunner]

Stu Pidasso,
Plus 1..
You are right on the mark.

[flatface]

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[Stu Pidasso]

Maybe it's just me flatface, but you lost me half way through that post.

[Inverted2]

Inverted, do your bitching about your shit job and life you probably have somewhere else.

The guy was asking for some info and once again the whiners in this community have struck again. Get over it retard.

Thanks for the childish comments. I actually have a great job and a great life. I just want you and I to make a good living in this crazy industry. Places like SR bring down everyones wages. Do you think that is good? I don't hate pilots who fly for them, but I encourage everyone to avoid these places and they will eventually have to pay a respectable wage if they can't attract qualified flight crews.

PS: If you do work at SR, I make a lot more than you do!

[ourkid2000]

This is a tough one I have to say.....

In the past I have accepted a crap job to pay the bills. A job that, by any definition, demeans the average AME, however, I needed to pay the bills. I took that job and made the best of it and it turns out that I got a load of experience that most AME's never manage to get.

I had no plans on staying more than a couple years and that's exactly what happened. I worked my ass off trying to get another job and it worked for me.

Would I go back again? Well, if I needed to feed my family and was left with no option.......I guess I would have to.

[learcapt]

Hey Inverted..and yours were not?

Anyhow, I do not work for SR, I am a corporate pilot, and anytime you want to get an independent party involved to compare salaries, I am ready. Not a chance you make more an I do.

[corytrevor]

Put your dicks away...I have a cousin who is a firefighter and he makes more than both of you.

[mbav8r]

" Retired Captains drawing a pension and taking a job at SR. "
What are you saying? They are greedy? They are immoral? They are corrupt?

Flatface, you completely missed the point. SR was created to put downward pressure on wages at AC and Jazz. So, the retired AC pilots enjoyed some of the best WAWCONS the industry had to offer and then take a pension with top hat, and go work for SR at wages which are about half of what AC pilots made for the work, now being done by SR. How's that for one last "screw you" to everyone left behind.

Definition of SCAB
1: scabies of domestic animals
2: a crust of hardened blood and serum over a wound
3 a: a contemptible person
b (1): a worker who refuses to join a labor union (2): a union member who refuses to strike or returns to work before a strike has ended (3): a worker who accepts employment or replaces a union worker during a strike (4): one who works for less than union wages or on nonunion terms
4: any of various bacterial or fungus diseases of plants characterized by crustaceous spots; also: one of the spots
Imagine a world where SR paid industry standard wages for the same work, oh yeah I guess they wouldn't need to exist, if that were the case.

As for the rest of your post, it's good to know there is life after the airlines, too bad it means, posting useless off topic reflections about your past life in the airlines.

[Changes in Latitudes]

I can't decide between this and the Honey Boo Boo marathon on TLC.

I love a good calamity.

[Mig29]

Hahahaha, Changes in Latitudes I wish I can just sit back and eat the pop corns too!

But I can't my friend, when I read how stupid and blind some of us are. I think EVERY pilot starting out should sit through a ground school in Aviation HISTORY and learn how we got where we are today.

When are we going to stop justifying every new pathetic contract offer, in order to get ahead just an inch more, only to roll back 10 years everyone else, including ourselves???

Flypast 60 at AC
Sky Regional
Sunwing Foreign Pilots
Enore
Rouge
...

Where does it stop??

[Mig29]

To be fair to 57Driver, here's a link http://www.avcanada.ca/forums2/viewtopi ... =5&t=85934 you should read first before deciding to take the interview. Unless you have decided already...then I can't give you any positive feedback. Sorry.

FYI. I declined Encores and Sky Reg's interview offer after reading thoroughly their proposals. I hope I didn't make the mistake of my life

[confusedalot]

Is it possible that the real culprit is supply and demand? Just as westjet is a copy of the southwest model and consquently pay soutwest type wages, it appears to me that the new regional airline trend here in Canada is just about a copy of what has been happening south of the border for quite a long time, with the same poor wages being applied to the "model". They don't pay much there either. Retired air canada guys or not, seems to me that pay will only change when the skill set pool starts to dry up. Doubt very much that the place is exclusively manned by former highly paid airline types.

[aerodude]

It's funny how you guys grill these guys for working there. You have no idea of the circumstances they had in life to get where they are. Some of you are even proud to show how much more you make than them.

Pilots: Class act like always.

[learcapt]

Hello Aerodude I only posted about my salary due to inverteds post..should not have though. I personally stand behind anyone who works for SR. Every pilot needs to do what is best for them at all stages of their career. These guys who constantly bash them are nothing less than unrealistic whiners. End of story.

[Livin'Something]

It's funny how you guys grill these guys for working there. You have no idea of the circumstances they had in life to get where they are. Some of you are even proud to show how much more you make than them.

Pilots: Class act like always.

+1

couldn't agree more