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Old 04-24-2015 | 06:20 AM
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Originally Posted by 80ktsClamp
Speaking of the SSP- I recently encountered a guy that does interviews that said the SSP is winding down due to dwindling amounts of applicants. In his words "it's pretty much over." What's going on there?
In March when the list of names were sent to DL, it did go fairly junior. There were very few Captains names sent, roughly 7 CA retry names and 9 first interview CA names, and around 50 FO names. The union put out an email beginning - mid March as a "warning shot" to the pilots that the March list did go very junior, which it did, the most junior pilot in March was about 200 from the bottom of the aprox 1500 pilot seniority list. After the Union email, the participation on the captain side and FO side dramatically increased. The list sent to April saw almost 45 CA names and 30 FO names, whereas the most junior pilot sent in April was between 990-1010 on the 15-02 published seniority list. No idea how the list will turn out in May, but as someone already said, every CA has had an opportunity and any CA that expressed interest was on the April list, so any CA on the May list will have signed up for the SSP after the April list was sent on April 6. If the SSP remains in its current state and the language is not renegotiated to include new hires then I would guess the SSP will be exhausted in late summer early fall.
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