Comments on: BOI Could Build $30M SkyWest Facility

By: Greg

Greg — Mon, 23 Jun 2014 02:43:17 +0000

Team Dave will give them so many tax breaks there will be no tax revenue.

By: anon

anon — Thu, 19 Jun 2014 04:48:12 +0000

You’re right about Horizon… me thinks SkyWest is about to either buy Horizon, or replace them completely as Alaska shuts them down.

By: Zippo

Zippo — Sun, 15 Jun 2014 19:53:30 +0000

Taxes? It will be tax free. And should taxes ever be collected, they’ll be diverted to the streetcar.

FlyHead, you are correct about how employers expect trained and experienced for near minimum wage… because our government has promised this to them. Just like the sckrool districts promise to produce educated graduates.

PS: SkyWest is slowly taking the flying away from Horizon Air via an agreement with Alaska Air. Horizon will vanish one day.

By: Flyhead

Flyhead — Sat, 14 Jun 2014 23:52:29 +0000

I keep thinking back to the 1960’s when I got out of High School. For those of us who were not headed to college, we had all kinds of apprenticeship programs funded by labor unions and employers. I can honestly say I don’t know of a single apprentice program here in the valley.

Employers complain about the lack of a trained workforce but they stay unwilling to finance any of it and want homeowners to pay for these programs via College of Western Idaho.

If this maintenance facility got build where would they get the people to staff it? Chances are they aren’t going to hire people from the local community but will bring them in from other places.