SkyWest Airlines reviews

Low pay, unsupportive management. In fact, the management was the most disappointing asset of this company. They will smile in your face, pretend to care or want to help you then turn around and slap you in the face. The whole "family" thing is a facade. If you aren't kissing up to the company or friends with management, they will let you go for some very stupid reasons. The way they treat reserves is beyond ridiculous, overworking them to the point of insanity, try to take advantage of them by pushing to the max limit, and overall just very insensitive. This airline has no union, so if you are in deep water, you are on your own. Don't even bother with SIA. They are a waste of time. They say they stick up for flight attendants, but yet they sit silently while letting management come up with ridiculous reasons to fire an employee. If you have a chance to go to mainline----PLEASE DO. Better pay, better quality of life, a Union who actually cares about flight attendants, and holds the company accountable, more international trips, better chance for advancement, etc. Don't get me wrong there will always be issues in any airlines, but not as much as I've seen at Skywest. The drama, the backstabbing, keeping employees that are constantly being written up or have done something actually bad all bc they kiss up to management or snitch on other flight attendants, etc. Skywest isn't what it used to be. There were once a time where the company used to care about its employees. Now it's just a company that has gotten too big for it's own good and cares more about money

Pay. The worst part of working at SkyWest is how little they pay. In comparing similar positions in the area performing the same job functions SkyWest is paying 15-20K less per year than the fair market value. This leads to high turn over and SkyWest is ok hiring young artists and watching them leave in 2-3 years instead of finding ways to keep them and cultivate their talents. There is zero pay negotiation for prior experience or for added responsibilities, and no incentive for better performance. Despite there being a team called Creative Services there is no creative director, nor an art director to make sure branding stays consistent. This leads to huge inconsistencies in all creative disciplines. Because they don't have these positions to guide the creative process all projects are funneled through corporate communications. This team is making final decisions on everything from artwork on the walls, video edits, color choices, typography choices, iconography, and overall style for print and digital design, advertising strategy, social media managing and are an internal PR team as well. Each of these decisions should fall to a professional in each of those areas, and instead the process is micromanaged to the point of the designers and videographers being button pushers, with little to any real involvement in the creative process and very little room for creative control or ownership of a project as most of it is dictated from corporate communications. This micromanagement usually ends in the rejection of original ideas and the frequent copying of creative ideas from Delta, or other mainline airlines. Opposing viewpoints in this work dynamic are not welcomed and instead of being the beginning of discussion are seen as an attack to seniority and can end in disciplinary action. Because of this there is little if any collaboration with other creatives, and very little action made on new ideas unless the ideas start from within corporate communications. The creative team does very little to plan ahead and is almost always throwing things together days before a big holiday or event instead of well-planned and prepared campaigns. Most work is reactionary in nature which is a contributing factor to the copying of creative ideas from other airlines to meet a tight deadline.