Thing is that we're also hiring people here who shouldn't be here... We've had a bunch of applicants who are still in training since April... That and a many others washing out.

It's so bad they're paying for a separate expensive week long course after the ATP-CTP course that teaches these applicants basic pilot skills!


"To increase our success with New Hire candidates, we have secured with FlightSafety a one week “pre-course” that covers general ground and turbojet sim training. Selected New Hires will attend this basic pre-program before they begin training at ExpressJet. Our goal is to match the ExpressJet ground and sim footprint for all candidates even if pilots lack recent currency or need a little help in understanding the airline environment. This “pre-course” will add significant costs, but we are hoping to make that up in (a) improved New Hire pilot success and (b) having our instructors focus on ExpressJet material – vs helping New Hires remedy core piloting skills. The first class will start this month and we will be gathering the metrics to judge the success."


There's a reason why most places have you hop in a simulator to demonstrate you're actually proficient at hand flying and basic tenants of airmenship during the interview... I know I did it in my interview years ago. Some people got the boot specifically due to the sim. On top of that we have flight attendants as pilot recruiters...