Fellow Pilots,
Since the last issue, L-CAL has determined that additional hiring will be needed beyond what was originally planned. On the L-UAL side, a small vacancy announcement is out for bid.
Hiring (L-CAL)
Captain Charlie Venema, has accepted the responsibility for management of new hire training. He can be contacted via e-mail at [email protected].
Out of the last 125 offers, 24 furloughed L-UAL pilots elected to accept new hire positions and will be assigned February and March 2012 class dates. This is consistent with the rate of approximately one acceptance for every five offers.
L-CAL has increased the class size of the two March classes from 16 to 20, and will be adding at least one April class. The next group of 137 furloughed L-UAL pilots should expect offer letters next week. This includes pilots who had new hire dates of June 2000, July 2000 and those in the 06AUG2000 class, bringing the total number of employment offers to 963.
Manpower
A small vacancy advertisement for 5 A320 Captains and 2 A320 F/Os closes on 04FEB2012.
I expect to have news regarding awards for the L-UAL vacancy bid as well as updated plans on the L-CAL system bid soon, and will follow with a more detailed update at that time.