Originally Posted by
daOldMan
All of the WO are filling classes. I am honestly curious, how many is PDT really looking to hire?
Is PDT set up to train a large number of pilots all at once? Can they handle classes of 25 every 2 weeks? Do you have the sims/instructors/check airmen to handle that?
Having more pilots than you need is a good problem to have. Just curious how many instructors and check airmen you have.
We are hiring as many as we can get. AA and our CEO have made it abundantly clear that we will get as many aircraft as we can staff. Whether that's 20, or 60, or 80 is yet to be seen.
Someone in the crew room said we're filling classes at 30-40/month and that's really pushing the training department's capacity, but you know how crew room rumors go. Let's see what happens but generally speaking I am optimistic about the outlook here.