Originally Posted by
GeeWizDriver
The simple fact is, we’re just not hiring that many right now so they won’t interview that many right now.
As predicted by some
every company/union initiative over the last five years has been aimed at one primary goal: reduce head count. It has worked like a charm. From a seniority list of more than 2800 when the contract was signed in late 2015, we are now at just over 2400. And falling.
Now, the Fed has approved AQP training which means 33% of pilot days currently spent in training each year will be days those pilots can be on the line instead. That means even fewer pilots even though fleet size is (slowly) growing (for now).
If there is ANY major hiccup in the economy, the company is well-positioned to immediately drop the remainder of fleets in disposal and not be saddled with an enormously over-staffed pilot group.
It’s just math.
With people waiting 2-3 months now for IOE on the Latie and now down a sim do to the "crash", recurrent is backed up so I think they have no choice but to slow hiring. Interesting though that we are flying more legs a month than anytime in company history and we're still getting 2-3 680's a month and flying 25+ hours a tour for most of us on 7/7.