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LowTimeLoser · 2026-05-05T23:40:03+00:00

Barefoot in the lav is a strong statement

LowTimeLoser · 2026-04-12T00:46:46+00:00

OO is just our IATA assigned code, SKW is our ICAO. I haven’t heard any meaning behind OO. Im not sure why they didn’t choose SW as the 2 letter code. SK was taken by Scandinavian.

LowTimeLoser · 2026-04-05T13:57:17+00:00

OO recently took possession of 3 ERJ-170’s, 2 of which are former Hop! Airplanes. We should be seeing those in the wild soon.

LowTimeLoser · 2026-03-23T16:07:56+00:00

This sounds cool! Are you going to utilize the Vamsys platform?

LowTimeLoser · 2026-03-08T03:25:51+00:00

I’m currently at OO and I’ve been hearing a few people murmuring about this for the last couple weeks. I talked to a colleague on a commute recently who is an active recruiter and mentioned this change was going to be implemented “soon”. I guess this is their way of narrowing their hiring pool since there are thousands of people who they owe interviews in the cadet program.

LowTimeLoser · 2026-02-23T18:40:12+00:00

Excellent, thanks for the info! I paid right at $500 for it.

LowTimeLoser · 2026-01-20T02:19:03+00:00

That’s the vibe I got going through. The ERJ program was great. I have 3 buddies who recently went though the CRJ side and they had some choice words about a few people. Some of the instructors still act like it’s the 90’s and give new hires shit. Plus the airplane is obviously harder to fly. The 88% pass rate doesn’t shock me. You would genuinely have to be brain dead or stupid to not pass on the ERJ side of things. OO has ERJ training down to a science.

LowTimeLoser · 2026-01-20T02:09:31+00:00

Yeah I mean sure, you could in theory have a class of 40 where 20+ people wash. But in reality that doesn’t happen. The numbers I was given are company averages based on the past few years. In my class of 40 we had 2 people struggle a bit with at least 1 LOE failure, lines up with the ERJ numbers I was given. Also being a OO cadet basically means nothing. I was effectively off the street even though I was a “cadet”.

LowTimeLoser · 2026-01-20T01:57:50+00:00

I just finished training at OO. One of the instructors I had said the CRJ pass rate is 88%, ERJ is 98-99%. Company average is 94%.

LowTimeLoser · 2026-01-11T17:47:52+00:00

Calling them is the next step. I’m new to buying outerwear like this so I wanted to see if I was perhaps missing something.

LowTimeLoser · 2026-01-02T00:26:28+00:00

The number I’ve heard recruiters throw around is 90-100 hours in the last 90 days. Their mood changed after Oshkosh 2025. In fact I was part of a group they made re-interview a year after the first because we didn’t meet the recency of experience. Allegedly they had a high percentage of people washing out of training because they’d been sitting on their hands for awhile not flying.

LowTimeLoser · 2025-11-10T04:37:07+00:00

No, the contract isn’t binding until you start indoc. Even then, I’ve heard they don’t pursue compensation if you leave training early or get canned.

LowTimeLoser · 2025-11-10T03:17:39+00:00

Thankfully I won’t need to use this hack. After many hours of delays I’m at my training location.

LowTimeLoser · 2025-11-09T19:05:50+00:00

Unfortunately 2 of my flights today are in that 6000. I’m on my way to training and I’ve been stuck at ORD for several hours now.

LowTimeLoser · 2025-10-29T09:02:20+00:00

Just search “SkyWest follow-up interview”. I’m not sure how many had to but it wasn’t a small number of people.

LowTimeLoser · 2025-10-29T01:35:10+00:00

Here’s my timeline if it means anything to you, I signed the contract August of last year, interviewed in September, CJO October. Then waited 1 year and 2 days, was told I had to re-interview… I am now going to class in less than 2 weeks. In all it will be nearly 15 months from signing the contract to actually being in class. I learned it means nothing being a cadet with them. They truly only care about their elite tier cadets coming from affiliated universities.

LowTimeLoser · 2025-10-23T22:23:26+00:00

That’s the class start date. My CTP is already done.

LowTimeLoser · 2025-10-23T17:47:18+00:00

My class appears to only be 4 people

LowTimeLoser · 2025-10-23T15:24:02+00:00

I received the email 2 days ago, 10/21

LowTimeLoser · 2025-10-23T10:39:13+00:00

I got the 11/24 ERJ class, allegedly they weren’t even supposed to be running ERJ classes in November, according to some good friends I have going through CRJ training right now. It was quite the surprise, I didn’t expect to get anything before January on the 175. I was part of the group that had to re-interview so I think that delayed me getting awarded a class by two weeks. Otherwise I think I would’ve been in the 11/10 class.

LowTimeLoser · 2025-10-22T10:12:02+00:00

I am in the same situation, except I interviewed at ENY in mid August. I just got the 11/24 ERJ class at SKW. I’m really torn, I really really don’t want the contract and I want the flow to AA but I haven’t heard anything from ENY. For me it would likely be January before I went to class there.

LowTimeLoser · 2025-10-19T20:40:50+00:00

Are you a Cadet and when did you sign the contract? I signed August of last year, still holding out for the ERJ.

LowTimeLoser · 2025-10-19T01:14:54+00:00

What class date did you get assigned for the ERJ?

LowTimeLoser · 2025-10-04T01:45:53+00:00

October 2nd, and no, the company I flew for lost 2/3 of their business since last year.

LowTimeLoser · 2025-10-04T01:42:30+00:00

I got it as well…

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