Originally Posted by
Xdashdriver
The training department claims a 90% pass rate, so I am wondering how the 60-70% thing comes into play?
Edit:
Did a little research project. Out of strings of consecutive employee numbers on the seniority list, only 15 missing numbers out of 150 pilots hired up to 6/5/14 since the beginning of the year. That comes out to around 90% of pilots hired are still here. While that is no doubt an imperfect way to calculate it (they seem to skip groups of numbers at the change of the month for some reason), it certainly points more towards a 90% retention than 60-70% in the last 6 months.
The little blurb now on the employee website says 80 FOs have completed training since June 1 and are now online. A bit of math says that if hiring/training was accomplished at the same rate, another 133 pilots should have completed training from Jan 1 thru May 30. Lines up pretty closely with your numbers.
Right now, a CRJ class of 18 starts every two weeks, and a 175 class of 10 starts once a month. So either the company thinks the pilot pool is gonna dry up completely, or more airplanes are coming.