Originally Posted by
Fleet Warp
So the blurb on apc about them hiring 400 pilots this year is not true? I thought hiring 20% of your seniority list in one year sounded a bit far fetched.
Kind of depends on what your definition of 'hiring' is. Since they added 834 Virgin America pilots to their certificate in Jan, you could say they more than doubled that number. And since they closed down Virgins JFK base and sold those gates to SWA, there certainly doesn't seem to be any real shortage of pilots at Alaska - certainly not any shortage enough for them to need to bring up Q400 guys from Horizon.
Besides, all their training facilities are going to be tied up teaching Boeing to Airbus guys and vice versa, for awhile anyway....