Originally Posted by
sandrich
According to the staffing bid, this company will need 236 pilots on property to fill all vacancies....By the end of summer we will probably have 250, with more on the way. I guess they plan on a lot of attrition?
They have 14 saabs scheduled for delivery by the end of the year bringing the total Saab fleet to 21 by year end. We have 21 Beech 1900's right now. I dont know what the phase out rate of the 1900's will be. I have recieved conflicting info reguarding this. I don't think they can phase the remaining 1900's up north out as quickly as originally planned just do to the massive amount of flying they want to take on. We were told by the union and management that the buisness plan is to have 50 saabs, 8 1900's and 550 guys on property by May 1st, 2013. If you look on the FAA website they have 67 N numbers secured for 3M.
My guess is this is why all the hiring etc.
Apparently rumor has it they are also in talks with Saab reguarding the 2000. We are also supposedly getting the IAH United flying in the spring of 2013 and this is why they are trying to up the delivery speed of the Saab but who knows.