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Old 09-16-2015 | 09:34 AM
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Default Hiring Update

As Sulk said above, no new hire class in Oct as the hiring dept needs to catch up. There is an Upgrade class in October, and it will be the last one for the year.

Upgrades will resume in January or February. Newhire classes will run continuously expect for October. Class sizes will be a little smaller until the summer of 2016. Training dept said expect classes of 16, and ramp up to full speed next summer.

There is a lul in aircraft growth between now and the middle or summer of 2016, but hiring now to be prepared for a fast growth in aircraft starting then. The current plan has 122 airplanes by 2021. Upgrade classes of 8 per month all year.

Orlando will grow to 19 airplanes and about 200 pilots. The first 321s will be based in Orlando.

The LAS base is far from a guarantee. At a minimum it is well over a year away. It could also become a flight attendant only base. Currently there is a lot of flying from LAS, but it is not particularly well scheduled for a domicile. The company says they would need to rewrite the schedule to make a Vegas base work, and right now it's not happening. They also said that any Western base would take flying away from Denver for sure.
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