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You will go through on the job training. You will have a lot to learn. You will also be photographed, finger-printed and given 10,000 hours of safety lectures and films and tests. You will be measured for uniforms and be issued safety equipment.

I was hired as an agent for United in 1963. I left them in 1984. I was training the day before I left. Get used to it, because training is a part of life.

Regards,
Dan

On Skywest airline website there was an position that opened up for a ramp agent at my local airport. I put my application in on the 22nd of september and the closing date was on October 5th. How long does it take for them to make a decision on who to pick for this position? Still waiting for their response and today is October 19. Let me know if you have a answer thanks!

Airline jobs have been in high demand lately (ANY job is!) so they were probably inundated with applications.

You could call/contact to see what the status of the position is.

Skywest are hiring for flight attendants. I was thinking of working for them as a flight attendant. Do I need a degree to become one and what is there schedule like? How many days from home and how long is the training?

Thanks

You don’t need a degree, just a high school diploma. A few things to consider: they will be running a 10 year FBI background check, so if you have anything on your record you probably won’t get the job. They also do a drug test either before or during training. You really need to be assertive and confident, have a good speaking voice with proper grammar and good customer service skills. Training is intense, anywhere from 3-9 weeks, so be prepared. Long days and nights with little sleep and testing every day. They want to push you and see if you can take the stress because the job itself has crazy schedules and tons of stress. The schedule varies, but at first you will be on call. My airline guarantees 11 days off on call. You can only work 6 consecutive days per the FAA regulations, but when you actually get a "schedule" you usually do 3 or 4 day trips. Your schedule changes every month, you bid for it by seniority. Its definitely not a 9-5 kind of career. Good luck! BTW:I have heard of Sky West. The crews I have met seems very nice and content at their company.

Does it have Delta’s livery? Can you add websites?

skywest has 11 EMB120’s for delta connection

http://www.skywest.com/about/skywest-fleet.php

here is a "fact sheet"

http://www.skywest.com/about/images/EMB120-FactSheet.pdf

All these carriers say airline approve but there is no way some can fit there. And Ive been given 2 different messurements of what size the carrier can be. I do want my cat to be comfortable as possible. Im flying on a Delta/Skywest airlines.Ive even called the airline along w/ my ticket agent. So how did the 2 of us come up w/ 2 diff messurements?

call again and ask

All these carriers say airline approve but there is no way some can fit there. And Ive been given 2 different messurements of what size the carrier can be. I do want my cat to be comfortable as possible. Im flying on a Delta/Skywest airlines.Ive even called the airline along w/ my ticket agent. So how did the 2 of us come up w/ 2 diff messurements?

call again and ask

The chart shows the amount spent by five U.S. airlines to fly one available seat one mile in the fourth quarter of a year. Suppose that, on a 3000-mile New York-Los Angeles flight, United, American and SouthWest flew a total of 210 empty seats, costing them a total of $65,400. Below there is the chart, which shows the amount spent by five U.S. airlines to fly one available seat one mile in the fourth quarter of 2000. If United had three times as many empty seats as American, how many empty seats did each of these three airlines carry on its flight?

Airline cost in cents
United 11.4
American 10.8
Continental 9.8
SkyWest 20.4
SouthWest 7.6

United=?
American=?
SouthWest =?

good luck guys

United=120
American=40
SouthWest =50

The chart shows the amount spent by five U.S. airlines to fly one available seat one mile in the fourth quarter of a year. Suppose that, on a 3000-mile New York-Los Angeles flight, United, American and SouthWest flew a total of 210 empty seats, costing them a total of $65,400. Below there is the chart, which shows the amount spent by five U.S. airlines to fly one available seat one mile in the fourth quarter of 2000. If United had three times as many empty seats as American, how many empty seats did each of these three airlines carry on its flight?

Airline cost in cents
United 11.4
American 10.8
Continental 9.8
SkyWest 20.4
SouthWest 7.6

United=?
American=?
SouthWest =?

good luck guys

United=120
American=40
SouthWest =50

we all know that the world is in a horrible recession right now, and the airline industry is especially hard hit and many pilots are being furloughed. Right now I am going to be a senior in high school. I will be graduating from college in 2014 and would like to be a pilot after graduating. I was wondering if you think there will be a demand for pilots by that time. and how many hours would smaller airlines (ASA or Skywest) be looking for?
thanks for the help.

Have you fully investigated and considered what this career is like and how it will affect your life/free time?

There will always be a demand for pilots, it just depends on if you are willing to work anywhere, fly any type of aircraft, for any amount of money on any day, at any time in a unstable profession.

I suggest if your going to do it, go all out and attend a top notch school, get your ATP and maybe even a type rating so when you apply for a job you walk right into it.

When it first came out the Dornier was very popular with commuter airlines, if I recall Skywest had a lot. But most have since become private aircraft or have gone to second tier airlines. They came out in the mid-90s, and a lot of airlines still have their same-era ERJs, CRJs, and ATRs.

So what happened? Why did the Dornier not stick with major airlines?

Nobody else has answered you, so I must suspect that, from a pilot’s or passenger’s viewpoint, there hasn’t been found any good reason for letting the 328 go. Maybe there is some financial reason???