Originally Posted by
ufgatorpilot
Out of curiosity, why only flows and recalls through the middle of the year? I thought there were about 120 recalls who came back that were put into class starting in March (?). Shouldn't they be about through those by end of this month? Does that mean they will do a couple of months of only flows in order to make up for the guys/gals who didn't flow while classes were filled with recalls? I'm just trying to understand it better. A few posts ago someone mentioned that it would probably be August before any off the street hires go over to the AA side. Is there room for improvement on that? Also, if there will only be about 50 new hires on the Airways side this year, how many of those spots are left? And if the Airways side is so short, why would they have so few new hires on the Airways side?
I can answer a few of your questions and perhaps some others can fill in the blanks that I leave out. First off AA was running about 2 or 3 months behind on aircraft training after new hires completed Indoc which is not an efficient way to train. They are playing catchup with that. Second the returning furloughs overwhelmingly either chose class dates ASAP or furthest out. So March was full of returning furloughs and the rest have been assigned June classes. I believe April has 2 new hire classes. I cannot confirm plans for May. Looks like June may be all returning furloughs. I have also heard no large amounts of new hires until Sept/Fall. The training dept is just catching up. This topic was brought up in the latest investor conference call as well. Envoy flow throughs are 20 a month when AA is hiring off the street.