Originally Posted by
captainv
Not a joke. Hiring is always feast/famine here. But look at it practically - they've hired 100 747 guys in the last 12 weeks alone. The last bid package had @ 100 guys already waiting for/on OE (both fleets/seats). MIA can churn them out, but the weak link has always been OE. Last year, the 767 got so backed up new hires waited at much as 5 months at home after training before seeing a jet. Looks like it's the 747's turn.
All it means is that they've stopped for now. As with anything Atlas, that can change in 5 minutes.
I could see that if they stopped hiring on the 747 for a month or two to get everyone through the training pipeline, but they'd have to hire for first quarter of next year after that. We'll be losing at least 30 a month starting in January... At least. We're losing between 20-30 now with United not even hiring. There's been at least 3 Atlas guys in every Delta, United, FedEx, UPS, and American class this year according to leadership...