Originally Posted by
eaglefly
Envoy has somthing like 2000 pilots now. According to the cheerleader, they will announce shortly that they will keep more aircraft longer. That means they will have to start hiring like gangbusters @ 40-50 per month. If they can't do that, this whole plan melts like ice cream on a hot sidewalk. Once that reality becomes obvious, I can see this plan in place for a few months for PSA to catch up on their training, but not longer.
By late this year, Envoy will likely be in the same place PSA is now and will need to either park aircraft or re-shift it elsewhere. I think he knows this and is busting his hump for the executives and himself to net as many unsuspecting fish as possible.
It was my belief that at the latest we would need to begin hiring 40-50 a month as late as this September to abide by AAG's size they want us at. We will need to hire 40-50 a month at some point just to keep up with 30 flows and misc. attrition monthly. One thing Envoy has done differently is set up their instructor pipeline. It gets a lot of laughs and chuckles on the line but this is akin to having a farm system feeding talent to the higher leagues. The total is at 38 programs last I checked. There are plenty of other creative ways to get new blood at your airline as well($$). Not that any of it will be easy.