Originally Posted by
Wink
PSA flows 100 pilots a year? Dont you have around 1500 pilots?
Bar napkin math says 1500/100 is 15 years to flow. Care to elaborate on how you arrived at the conclusion that its roughly the same as PDT/ENY?
Not trying to be a jerk, genuinely interested in how this works out as I am not familiar with PSA's flow at all.
PSA currently has 1100 pilots (1160 on the list, but several people that are already gone are still on the list). In that, there are about 150 that will not/can not flow.
The key, though, is attrition (attrition outside of the flow). We lost 28 last month. The norm lately has been 15-18 per month. Of those, quite a few were within a year of flowing. Delta has been taking a lot of our pilots lately. We have lost several senior pilots to JetBlue and Southwest as well. In the mid range, we have quite a few leaving to Spirit, Atlas, and a couple to Kalitta.
People that were hired 2 years ago move up more than 12 spots a month still.
Here's some math:
If you are #1200, and 150 are lifers/instructors that wont flow, that puts you at #1050.
Now, for simple math, lets estimate that we are flowing 8 a month, and 5 a month are leaving to other airlines as an absolute worst case scenario. (It will be 25-30 per month your first year, but less as you move up the list, so lets just say 5 a month)...
That means that you move up on average 13 spots a month. That is 6 and a half years.