Originally Posted by
airlinepilotguy
So, if Envoy has to park planes because they can't get enough pilots and the airline is in the After DOS group then they have to meter the flow. And parking planes means less pilots on the seniority list which means less pilots above the base of 480 which ultimately ends up meaning a very small flow through rate (less than 200/year). That means the five year flow isn't a five year flow for the After DOS group. This is all based on the assumption that Envoy has a difficult time obtaining pilots, which will probably be the case.
You are definitely right in that this industry might look a little bit different in 5-7 years. Hopefully we don't have to use the flow and we can get hired at a legacy OTS.
Yes if we are short staffed and having to park airplanes then they will meter the flow....
That's the whole point of offering nearly 60k to new hires. To bring them in. If that doesn't work I'm sure other initiatives will be taken, airplanes flying means money coming in so AAG has reasons to offer these incentives to new hires.
I'm betting the shrinking is done and we get more new hires than we have been able to for the last couple of years.