Originally Posted by
Excargodog
50 captains is two and a half months attrition at the OLD rates, before everybody started dropping apps and working other options. We’ll burn through the excess fast unless management can prove there is a future here. And we are still thin in the FO ELIGIBLE for upgrade department. Won’t take many of those deciding to take the DEC signing bonus and upgrading elsewhere to put us in a deep hole. Especially if the company is unwilling or unable to budge on the company mins for the RATP and low ME time guys.
I’m guessing there’s plenty of FOs right at captain mins or a month away at this point. When hiring boomed last year, there were 30-40 pilots a month getting hired. I was mid summer and am nearing 700 hours. Those March/April ‘18 hires should be right there.