Originally Posted by
742drvr
I think the goal is 8 crews per airframe. I was told there are going to be two new hire classes per month for the forseeable future till they get up to the numbers. Right now we're at about 70 crews for 10 airframes. Doing the siferen' that makes the need, 24 more Classic crews and 24 400 crews. Upgrade and transition to 400 is from within. If you had came over, my guess that it would have be less than six months before you would have probably been offered an upgrade. Hope the guys that didn't except the offer, haven't maked a mistake in the grand scheme of things.
I stand by my earlier statement that the -400 isn't coming to SAH anytime soon, to that end, this just in:
From: Brian Neff
Sent: Monday, November 12, 2007 10:30:51 AM
To: Airdomain; CaptainsAndFirstOfficers; FlightEngineers
Subject: Corporate Announcement
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To all Southern Air Employees and Crewmembers:
Please be advised that we have postponed indefinitely the B747-400BCF program that was due to start in January of 2008, and do not have plans to restart the program any time soon. We will continue to provide our brand of low cost, high quality ACMI lift with our existing fleet of B747 Classic freighter aircraft through the next several years, until we begin the re-fleeting process with the B777F. To that end, we will be adding our fourteenth B747 Classic freighter aircraft in February, and it is our intention to operate this aircraft between Asia and Europe on an ACMI program.
Thank you all for your continued hard work as we make it through the final weeks of the peak season.
Best regards,
Brian Neff
President
I'm ready to collect on my friendly wager......
Anybody care to wager on those 777Fs too? How different would the numbers of folks goint to SAH from Cargo 360 if this announcement had been made on October 18th?