Originally Posted by
Undaunted
Are Allegiant pilots getting picked up by American / Delta / United? What kind of numbers in the last 12 months?
Yes, United more so than the rest. American is hiring very few off the street'ers at the moment due to recalls and flows, and Delta is predominately military experience, but I know we send quite a few to United.
No exact numbers, but our VP of planning (JB, insanely smart guy) told me 2 weeks ago that attrition was "a real problem" and we are losing "5% of FO's and 3-4% of captains" per year.
And just to add some fuel to the fire (pure speculation mostly)... I've been told that once you get an airbus type, it's pretty easy to get a call from Spirit, Frontier, JetBlue, etc... not that that's what most guys are looking for, but at least it's not bad news!
-Alex-
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